RES: Discovery service guest access

[Michelangelo M M Viana]

Hi,

Our discovery tool (Ex Libris Primo) is open for guests: http://omnis.pucrs.br 
Only thing we show is a warning for people outside PUCRS network, because most of our e-resources are IP controlled and will not be accessible.

Best regards,

Michelangelo

Michelangelo Mazzardo Marques Viana | Support and Development Dept.
Librarian, Main Library Systems Coordinator - CRB-10/1306
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS
Ir.  Jose Otao Central Library | Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
+55(51) 3353.4371| mviana at pucrs.br | http://www.pucrs.br/biblioteca
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De: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] Em nome de Jonathan Bloy
Enviada em: quarta-feira, 5 de agosto de 2015 11:51
Para: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Assunto: [WEB4LIB] Discovery service guest access

Those of you in academic libraries that have a discovery service, do you allow "guest" access (so anyone can search using the discovery engine without authenticating)?

We've just started using a discovery service (EDS) and there is some debate about whether we should allow guest access or not.  On our website, the discovery search box has basically replaced the search box for our catalog.  My contention is, if we're featuring it so prominently on our website we should allow anyone to use it.


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Jonathan Bloy
Librarian, Head of Digital Initiatives
Edgewood College
Madison, Wisconsin
http://library.edgewood.edu

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