[Eril-l] Access to electronic resources for non-credit continuing education students?

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There are actually two different issues here, technical and legal.
If you have an ezproxy system (or also I believe Open Athens - we use local-hosted ezproxy), you can easily create temporary username/password pairs directly in it that does not rely on your campus' main network authentication/account system.
That solves the technical issue.

But the legal issue is whether such users are allowed under your license agreements, and that could vary by license, so giving them an ezproxy-local account that would just automatically grant them access to ALL of the services in your database config file might violate some contracts.

There are directives you can use in ezproxy to give such accounts access to only a subset but then someone needs to pay attention to each specific license and work with your ezproxy manager to define and maintain that subset definition.

And some vendors might claim that your IT dept's refusal to issue these users a general campus account is by definition (perhaps literally as defined in contracts) evidence that they are NOT properly authorized users.

Melissa Belvadi
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University of Prince Edward Island
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Hi All, one of our colleges is offering non-credit continuing education courses.  These folks aren't in our Banner system and won't be issued an institutional email address nor accounts so access through our proxy serve will be problematic.  These will be 8-week courses, so relatively short.  How are other libraries handling this situation?  We met with the college and they refer to the students as participants, not students.


Thanks,
Stew

Stew MacLehose, MLIS, MSEd
Associate Dean of Library Services
Digital Services & Systems Librarian
Library Services
University of New England
716 Stevens Ave. Portland, ME 04103
smaclehose at une.edu

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