From: Peter Galsworthy <pgalswor_at_lib.uwo.ca>
[I haven't checked the archive of past messages, but this has likely been
discussed on LIBLICENSE-L as well. LS]
** Please note that this message is posted to both the colldv-l and
the sts-l**
This message concerns the American Society for Microbiology
institutional online site license agreement for full-text access to ASM
journals. How have other academic libraries dealt with the ASM restriction
to limit access to one building and to prohibit any remote access? The URL
for this license
is<http://www.journals.asm.org/subscriptions/sitelicense.shtml>
http://www.journals.asm.org/subscriptions/sitelicense.shtml In our
experience with online access to other journals shows that the main value
of online access is that this access can be from office or from home as
well as from the library. The need for users to logon to the university
site with id and password in order to have the authorized IP address for
connection to the full-text journals is satistactory to the publishers of
many online journals but apparently not to ASM.
It is worth noting that ASM journals are fairly priced both in print
and online. It is unfortunate that, in our academic library, this
restrictive license is limiting the use of the these journals to the paper
format. Please let me know if you have found a solution to this problem.
Thanks -- Peter
Peter R. Galsworthy
Coordinator of Collections
Allyn and Betty Taylor Library
University of Western Ontario
London Ontario Canada N6A 5B7
E-mail: pgalswor_at_lib.uwo.ca
Phone: (519) 679-2111 x 6241
Fax: (519) 661-3435
Received on Tue May 18 1999 - 18:16:54 EDT