[Prodev] Beyond the Boundaries

[Marguerite Most]

Following up on Sally's message below - although remote 
access through a proxy server can be a problem when a 
vendor limits access to the law school population, Hein 
Online allows IP authentication at the university-wide 
domain address level. Since it is licensed to the whole 
campus, Hein Online gives the law library, which often 
"piggybacks" access to non-legal electronic journals 
through the "main library", an opportunity to provide 
something unique to the university collection. 

Here at Boston College, use of Hein Online by the 
larger university community is light, but this sharing of 
resources helps foster cooperative relationships between 
campus libraries. 

Marguerite Most
Boston College Law Library

On Fri, 17 May 2002 13:41:24 -0400 Sally Wise 
<swise@law.miami.edu> wrote:

> Many academic libraries are already wrestling with these issues since
> distance education has really taken off in some areas of the country so
> we do have some models we can look at.  For licensing issues, many
> universities have installed some sort of authentication device...or a
> proxy server.  This may work for databases which have been licensed for
> the university community, but law school libraries will need to have a
> way to authenticate remote law school users for databases that are
> limited to law school IP ranges.
> --Sally Wise
> University of Miami
> 
> Rita Reusch wrote:
> > 
> > It is clear that vendors/licensors would need to 
> reexamine their licensing > procedures for many of the 
> beyond the boundaries scenarios (or, otherwise > stated, 
> the scenarios just might not happen if they don't!).  
> Someone from > the firm environment spoke about this the 
> other day, and it would certainly > affect law schools 
> seeking to develop distance education programs. > Rita
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Axtmann, Margaret M. [mailto:MMAXTMANN@stthomas.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:30 AM > To: 
> prodev@aallnet.org > Subject: RE: [Prodev] Beyond the 
> Boundaries > 
> > That's a great example.  Distance education certainly 
> takes us beyond > physical boundaries, as we try to offer 
> resources and services to students > who are not just off 
> site but might be at home or at another institution > 
> across the country.  How will we license materials as our 
> base of "remote > access" expands and shifts?  How will we 
> provide adequate reference services > to students who need 
> assistance?  Will we need to set new service > parameters?
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Carol Bredemeyer [mailto:bredemeyer@NKU.EDU] > 
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:25 AM > To: prodev@aallnet.org
> > Subject: [Prodev] Beyond the Boundaries > 
> > Distance education is still a great unknown in legal 
> education. > The ABA hasn't said much about it, but I think 
> sooner or later > we will have to deal with it.  I believe 
> there are some schools > currently working together to 
> teach a class to students at 2 > schools via web or 
> satellite, but ideas like this are bound to > expand and 
> library issues will come with that expansion. > Do we even 
> know what those library issues are at this point? > 
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