From: Corey Murata <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:19:41 +0000 While the privacy concerns are serious and need to be addressed, I am more concerned about the movement away from an IP authentication to a completely credential based access. As a public institution we provide on-site access to our resources to all scholars, be they researchers from other institutions, high school students, or the general public. All but a rare handful of our licenses for electronic resources include "walk-in users" in the category of "authorized users." We can do this currently with IP based authentication. I do not see how this will be possible in the proposed RA21 environment. The fundamental flaw, as I see it, with RA21 is the assumption that the only authorized users are those affiliated with a credential granting institution. It ignores the "walk-in users" and it ignores the tradition of scholars visiting other libraries to access resources not available in their home library. Under RA21 scholars would only ever get access to resources licensed by the institution granting their credentials. This would be a tragedy. Corey **************** Corey Murata Interim Director, Collection Analysis & Strategy University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 685-9536 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:37:30 -0400 A colleague pointed us to this STM-led initiative: http://www.stm-assoc.org/standards-technology/ra21-resource-access-21st-century/ And I found the recent presentation given at a recent CNI meeting: https://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/CNI_Resources_Shillum.pdf The project is positively explained in the above sources. Basically, it's an effort to move away from IP authentication to more sophisticated methods, which might help the user and also improve publisher controls vis a vis published content. Perhaps it might reduce the SciHub (and like) problem? I'd be interested in liblicense-l list members' comments on the pros and cons of such an initiative and approach. It would be most useful, as this seems very important, and I'm guessing many of us feel under-informed at this early stage. Anyone on this list part of the pilots? Thank you, Ann Okerson