Remote access to databases

[Floyd Csir]

Alan,

One solution is to contact your database vendors and ask them to set up
remote passwords in addition to IP address authentication. I'm not sure if
IAC or SIRS does this, but my library has this set up with Ebsco and UMI
and it has worked well. Before we give out passwords to students over the
telephone or in person, we verify their status from our online catalog.
This low-tech solution may not work for larger libraries though. 

Hope this helps,

Floyd Csir

On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Alan Bogage wrote:

> We have a number of web based periodical databases (IAC, SIRS, etc.) to
> which we need to provide remote access for our students and faculty.  I
> understand that somehow we need to create a database of our users which
> can be based on their library barcodes.  Since the vendors are
> authenticating via our ip addresses, how can a remote user "grab" one of
> our ip addresses and send that to the vendor?  Where can I learn about
> how to do this?
> 
> --
> *************************************************
> Alan Bogage
> Carroll Community College
> 1601 Washington Rd.
> Westminster, Md. 21157
> *************************************************
 
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