From: Donald Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:25:24 -0800

Deborah,

Did Westlaw provide an explanation of the clause and did they actually
state to you that they don't want people to be able to view the URL
that takes them to the resource?

I read the clause as an awkward way of saying the subscriber agrees to
limit access to Campus Research to authorized users (perhaps Westlaw
will not allow walk-in users?). In this case, if you use ez-proxy, you
would just use your regular proxy configuration, and if walk in users
are not allowed then you route the on-campus users through the proxy
as well so that they are forced to authenticate when on campus.

Best regards,
Don
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Donald Taylor
University Copyright Officer & Research Repository Coordinator
SFU Library, Burnaby BC  778.782.9705

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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 02481
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