Access

[Real Rodrigue]

Lissa Lord wrote:

> The University of Iowa Libraries are assessing several major
> information
> products available via the Internet.
>
> My question to web4lib:
>
> Is it possible for university staff and students to access these
> services
> when not at a campus computer with university IP address?
>
> The vendors say that we (university staff and students) cannot access
> the
> product from our off campus homes or offices.
>
> I think that if our library pays $50,000 for access to a major
> vendor's
> product that members of the university community should be allowed
> remote
> access.
>
> Why can't a password and ID sign-on system work?
>
> One vendor wants even more money to implement such a signon system.
>
> What is the truth in this access business?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
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> Lissa Lord                                   lissa-lord at uiowa.edu
> Team Leader, Research Services
> Information, Research, & Instructional Services (IRIS)
> University of Iowa Libraries
> 100 Main Library
> Iowa City, IA 52242                          319/335-5403
>
> It's like Deja Vu all over again...Y.Berra
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At the Universite du Quebec a Montreal, we have set up a way to allow
these accesses for certain databases, and we are working to implement
the system for other databases.

We use the ID and Password of our OPAC as a means to verify that a user
is in fact part of the University community.

When a user accesses the database from a university computer, he has
automatic access. However, when a user accesses from a computer outside
the university, he is asked first to enter his OPAC ID and his password;
after validation, he is allowed to access the database. This system
works only for access through the WEB.

I am not familiar with the details of the system; what I know is that
users from the outside who are REGISTERED AS UNIVERSITY USERS of our
OPAC are automatically attributed a special University Internet address
which has a temporary duration (session limited to one hour, after which
period of time the connection simply closes and the address is dropped);
this address system is similar to the IP addresses allotted in a
SLIP/PPP connection (when somebody opens a SLIP/PPP connection with the
University, he is allotted an IP address which belongs to the
University, for the duration of the connection time). 

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