[Eril-l] [EXTERNAL] Re: Which vendors do something special with Ezproxy server address?

[Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list]

I can second Xiaotian's experience.  We just moved from EZproxy local to
hosted and had to update IP ranges with all of our providers in December.
We're still chasing down a few strays.
Presses for universities and professional organizations can be especially
problematic.  They often outsource their journal hosting to 3rd party
platforms and services.

Vickie

On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 11:25 AM Electronic Resources in Libraries
discussion list via Eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org> wrote:

> Hi Mellisa,
>
>       I went through this in Nov 2024. Unless a publisher is listed at
> https://theipregistry.org/publishers/, I had to either log into their
> admin site to make the changes or message them.  It was a tedious process.
> Examples, 1. Some vendors admin sites are not easy to use. Eg, EBSCO Admin
> takes IP address one by one and no longer takes ranges. I had to manually
> enter dozens of addresses.  2. Not all publishers/vendors have a working
> email or contact form posted.
>
>
> Xiaotian Chen
> Professor, Electronic Services Librarian
>
> <http://bradley.edu>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 3:08 PM <eril-l-request at lists.eril-l.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi, all!
>> We're planning to change our Ezproxy server's IP address on Monday Jan 26
>> to a different address still within the same range as the rest of campus.
>>
>> We are registered with theipregistry.org and I will change it there, but
>> not all of our vendors use that service.
>>
>> Most vendors are happy with the proxy server being in the overall campus
>> range and won't care that we change ezproxy's IP address in particular as
>> long as it's within our campus range they already know.
>>
>> So I am concerned about identifying which vendors meet both of these
>> conditions:
>>
>>   1.
>> they need to make some kind of internal adjustment when the proxy server
>> itself changes IP address, AND
>>   2.
>> they will NOT get that information from theipregistry.org
>>
>> If any of you can identify those vendors, it would help us a lot, thank
>> you!
>>
>> PS. Vendors, please consider joining the IP Registry! It would have saved
>> me a lot of stress right now if all of you were members!
>>
>> Melissa Belvadi
>> Collections Librarian
>> University of Prince Edward Island
>> mbelvadi at upei.ca<mailto:mbelvadi at upei.ca>  902-566-0581
>>
>>
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