From: Andrew Pitts <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:13:05 +0000

We hope members of this list will be interested in this news, given
the concerns about the use of IP addresses as an authentication method
for scholarly content.



PSI, the organisation which helps publishers eliminate subscription
fraud and IP misuse, has announced the launch of a global registry of
IP addresses which we hope will benefit the whole community. The IP
Registry will make it easier for libraries to communicate any changes
in their authentication details to all publishers who sign up to use
the service, saving them significant time and reducing errors. The
registry already contains 1.5 billion validated IP addresses for over
60,000 content licensing organisations worldwide.

The full Press Release can be seen below

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Press Release: Oxford, UK 27th June 2016

Publisher Solutions International Ltd (PSI) launch The IP Registry,
which will solve major authentication problems experienced by
publishers and libraries.

PSI, the organisation which helps publishers eliminate subscription
fraud and IP misuse, today announced the launch of a global registry
of IP addresses.

On average, 58% of IP ranges held by publishers are inaccurate, PSI
have found. Because of this, a significant amount of content is open
to unlicensed access, and libraries and publishers are likely to
receive inaccurate usage statistics. Until now, the systems for
keeping the IP ranges accurate and up to date have been cumbersome,
time-consuming and inefficient for everyone involved.

The IP Registry will make it easier for libraries to communicate any
changes in their authentication details to all publishers who sign up
to use the service, saving them significant time and reducing errors.
The registry already contains 1.5 billion validated IP addresses for
over 60,000 content licensing organisations worldwide.

Andrew Pitts, Managing Director of PSI, said "We are the experts in
this field as we have been working for over 10 years with leading
publishers to identify IP misuse and abuse, cleaning up their
authentication databases as we go along. As a result, we have a
database of clean and accurate IP details for institutions all over
the world. Given IP addresses are still the major method of
authentication within in our community we know that this service will
benefit publishers and their customers enormously. "

Diane Costello, Executive Officer, Council of Australian University
Librarians (CAUL), when asked to comment on the original idea said
"This product should be an acquisition librarian's dream come true.
PSI is constructing a reliable index of institutions' IP addresses
which we will also keep up to date. This will save both publishers and
their subscribing libraries a whole lot of trouble. From the library
perspective, every time their institution updates their IP addresses,
the librarian must notify all those publishers and platform vendors
with whom they have an electronic relationship. Now, with The IP
Registry, they need only need to do it once."

Keith Abbott, Special Projects Manager, John Wiley & Sons commented
"PSI has been a tremendous resource for us and our industry peers in
identifying and preventing the continuation of subscription fraud
around the world. More recently, their ability to use aggregated
publisher data to perform a global IP address clean-up has been
extremely valuable and has provided us with the information needed to
develop a more accurate data set in which we now and will continue to
have significant confidence."

PSI is inviting libraries and publishers to find out more and register
their interest in the product at www.theipregistry.org. PSI will be
available at all major events through 2016, and are inviting people to
contact them to make an appointment to meet and discuss the registry.

About PSI

Publisher Solutions International, Ltd. (PSI) is an independent
third-party, which enables publishers and membership societies to work
together securely and confidentially towards the common goal of
eliminating subscription abuse and IP misuse.

PSI is the brainchild of two veterans of the publishing world who hold over

30 years of STM publishing experience. It was during their work for
major publishers that they recognised the extent of IP misuse and
subscription abuse, the damage it was causing, and the need to
identify a viable means of putting a stop to it.

About The IP Registry

The IP Registry is a single repository of the validated IP addresses
for over 60,000 content licensing organisations worldwide, accessible
by both publishers and libraries and maintained for the benefit of the
whole scholarly communication community by PSI, based in Oxford, UK
and Boston, USA.

Contact Andrew Pitts for more information:
Telephone: +44 (0)1865 849 514
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: www.theipregistry.org
Twitter: @ip_registry