From: "Laughtin-Dunker, Kristin" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 15:28:55 +0000 Hi Amy, We tend to license everything for all users. However, we do have two colleges that are located in a different city (on one campus), as well, though we don't consider it a branch campus since it is under the same overall administration and relies on the main library, not having its own. For right now, at least, we have them access everything through EZ Proxy. However, as they are all health science programs, they require very specialized resources, and some of the vendors required us to restrict access to just them. Since they are accessing resources the same way as off-campus users, we cannot restrict access by IP range. Instead, we post the links to these resources in the Blackboard portals for their programs, so that our general users cannot see they exist. We direct patrons to go to Blackboard in our catalog records, database A-Z list, and subject guides. It's clunky and annoying, but it's the best we could do since these resources were needed for accreditation and the vendors were unwilling to negotiate. Obviously this wouldn't work as well in your case, since it seems that your secondary campus needs to be restricted from the resources licensed for your more general population, as opposed to the other way around. Do they add a significant portion to your FTE? If not, it may not be too much trouble to renegotiate. I'm interested to hear what others have done in similar scenarios. Thanks! -Kristin Kristin Laughtin-Dunker Scholarly Communications & Digital Collections Librarian Leatherby Libraries, Chapman University [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Amy Lynn Fry <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 14:12:38 +0000 Does anyone out there have what are considered branch campuses? What is your strategy for licensing and proxying? One of our university’s colleges is located in a different town from the rest of our physical campus (it’s not actually a branch campus, it’s a college, but it’s kind of branch-y). They have a library that is not quite separate yet not quite part of the main library. Not all of our resources are licensed for use by the students of this college. Up until now we’ve been using WAM proxy, from Innovative, which has allowed us to establish, through the patron database, who has access to which resources. Now we are trying to implement EZProxy, which our library systems manager says does not have the same capability. Since we only have one pool of IPs for off-campus and wireless users, we can’t limit resources by IP range. I’m wondering what other libraries do if you have a similar situation. In a very informal and unscientific poll of my Facebook friends, it sounds like most places with branches license everything for all users. I’d love to hear back from you liblicensers to hear whether this is what you do or not and, if not, what you do instead. I want us to move to EZProxy very much, but I’m not sure there’s staff to support two completely separate setups for these two locations, and I’m not sure if there’s money to re-license what currently doesn’t include the second location. Thanks so much for your help! Amy Amy Fry Associate Professor, Electronic Resources Coordinator Bowling Green State University Jerome Library Bowling Green, OH 43403 [log in to unmask]