Discovery service guest access

[Steven Turner]

We allow guest access. Our catalog, our digital repository, and just about
everything else runs through our discovery layer, so not to allow guest
access would possibly deny outside researchers the ability to discover
resources that should be available to them.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Jonathan Bloy <JBloy at edgewood.edu> wrote:

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