[WEB4LIB] Elegant solution to login requirements?

[Charles P. Hobbs]

On Sat, 25 Dec 1999 spober at manhattan.edu wrote:

> Unfortunately, not all vendors and journal publishers are allowing 
> access via IP authentication.  
> 
> What are people doing to provide access to those databases (like certain
> ejournals) that require all users to authenticate with a login and
> password?  

At King/Drew Health Science Library, we pass out a sheet to registered
borrowers with all the passwords. Not too many people use it, though.

There are so many different rules. Some require IP authentication (and
can't be used off campus), others require a password, some allow both. Our
favorites are the ones that have been mounted on aggregator sites (Ebsco
Online, Journals at Ovid), or better yet,  allow their full-text records
to be linked to a searchable database (Ovid).