[WEB4LIB] Re: Restricting launches to IP-restricted licensed

[Jennifer Heise]

> Fascinating discussion, but could it be getting off-point? The question was,
> more or less,
> 
> If the vendor is using IP authentication, then should the library also be doing
> IP authentication?

Ah, well, if that's the question, of course not.

If the question is, if the vendor is using IP authentication, might you
still have to restrict access via password or other authentication--
Well, I'd think that depends on your license agreements.

The general concensus among our librarians is that the fact that almost
all terminals in our IP address range require logging in with a valid
student, faculty or staff ID and password, means that the additional
authentication is done already.

Jenne Heise, 
Student & General Team, Lehigh University Information Resources
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