Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:27:26 EST
From: "MARLA EDELMAN" <edelmanm@sesat.uncg.edu>
Subject: Re: Internet journal access

Carol Jones <carol.jones@YALE.EDU> wrote:
> In our experience, The Chronicle has made it very clear that each
> individual who accesses the online version must have his/her own individual
> subscription in order to get a password and ID.  When I called their
> office, I was told explicitly that they do not make passwords and ID's
> available for institutional use and that a password/ID issued to a
> librarian is not to be posted or otherwise shared for multiple-user access.
>
> I would be very interested in how the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has
> managed to circumvent this very restrictive policy.

I don't know about other universities but when we got the form letter
signed by Corbin Gwaltney regarding online access for only individual
subscribers, I complained that we were paying for a subscription and
that we had a right to any benefits they gave to other subscribers.
They asked for our subscriber number (8-digits above our name on
address label, set off by "#").  I supplied it and was given a User ID
and password for that address--the address of this library; not me as
an individual.  I guess I was just a "squeaky wheel" and they wanted
me to go away.

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 Marla Edelman, Serials Librarian
 Jackson Library - UNC Greensboro
    Greensboro, NC  27412-5201
(910) 334-5996 phone; 334-5399 FAX
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