[Eril-l] Peeters Journals and off-campus access

Thu May 19 13:47:27 PDT 2016

Hi Jason and all,

I did not repost to the ER&L list as I did not get any responses, but maybe I should have. I did send this to a couple of others.  I did get a few off-list responses and I think one bit of confusion is that it isn't just that they do not allow access through the proxy, but no off-campus access at all per their terms so access through a VPN is technically a violation.   My update is below, in case anyone wants to send them a note.  I am not on the EZProxy list, so thank you for sharing.  Sven is the entire journals department and reports directly to the family.  Maybe if we can make headway on this topic, we can then work on ILL and post cancellation access terms.  If you are going to dream...:)
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Since a few people have contacted me off-list, I wanted to follow-up that Sven at Peeters has finally agreed to share my concerns about not allowing access to users off-campus to the Peeters family.  They apparently make all the related journal policies and have seen this one as a financial decision, but I received little in the way of an explanation.  I am trying to convince them otherwise.  If you feel strongly about this one and would like to allow access through your proxy, now might be a good time to email them again on this matter, journals at peeters-leuven.be<mailto:journals at peeters-leuven.be>.  Thank you.

Julie

From: Jason Friedman [mailto:Jason.Friedman at uOttawa.ca]
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 3:21 PM
To: Loder, Julie L; eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
Subject: RE: Peeters Journals and off-campus access

Hi Julie,

Sorry for taking so long to respond. Yes, we discovered Peeters off-campus access restrictions a couple years ago. There was also a discussion about the blocking on the ezproxy mailing list, which I have attached. Sven is the only person we've dealt with.

As far as I know, no subscriptions have been cancelled because of that restriction specifically.

Sincerely,

Jason

From: Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] On Behalf Of Loder, Julie L
Sent: May-10-16 11:22 AM
To: eril-l at lists.eril-l.org<mailto:eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>
Subject: [Eril-l] Peeters Journals and off-campus access

Hello,

Has anyone else run into Peeters saying that off-campus access is not allowed?  They claim to block proxy servers, although I have tested and I can get in through ours.  I thought maybe we were just using different terminology, but I cannot seem to get past Sven Vranckx to see if that might be the case.  Have you been able to get through to them that this part of their license makes their journals kind of useless to most of our users?  If you have had success with them, who did you talk to?  If not, have you cancelled any titles as a result?  They are already on the naughty list for not allowing for post cancellation access to paid for years and their usage stats are on COUNTER 2.

Thank you.

Julie

Julie Loder
Electronic Resources Librarian
Vanderbilt University
110 21st Avenue South
Suite 700 Baker Bldg
Nashville, TN 37203
615-343-5879 (voice)
615-343-8834(fax)

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