From: "Renison, Neil" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:05:32 +0000

Hello Deborah,

There is a third option which requires a technical solution.  You put
the URL on a password protected web page or use a function of EZproxy
(if you use that service) to ensure that the confidential Campus
Research URL is only visible to staff and enrolled students who would
have a login.  That secure webpage's URL (or EZproxy address) can be
placed into any of your public pages or catalogue etc.

We don't have Campus Research, but have the same obligation with other
services and because we use EZproxy the solution is trivial to
implement.  Actually, Campus Research practice is not a secure means
of authentication anyway, but if that's all it takes to agree to sign,
that is their problem not yours.

Neil

Neil Renison| Librarian, Acquisitions Services
Information Resources
Library & Information Services
Eddie Koiki Mabo Library
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-----Original Message-----

From: Deborah Lenares <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:22:42 -0500

Hello Liblicense friends,

We are negotiating a license for Campus Research though Westlaw Thomson Reuters.

They include the following in Schedule A for Educational Institutions

8. Subscriber's Security Obligations. Subscriber agrees to provide its
own security to limit access to the Campus Research URL.  Subscriber
must design, configure and implement its own security configuration.

The way I read this we would not be able to put the URL to this
product in our (publicly accessible) catalog, or on any (publicly
accessible) library web pages, libguides, or in our (publicly
accessible) link resolver.

They have refused to remove or alter the wording.

I see two options:

1. not to renew; or,

2. renew and remove the URL for all of the above, and then cancel next
year because it has not been used.

Any thoughts?

Best,
Deborah Lenares
Manager Acquisitions and Resource Sharing Science

Collection Management Librarian
Clapp Library - Wellesley College
Wellesley, Massachusetts
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