[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Evergreen's compatibility with external databases

[Paul Bartell]

There are several ways to do allow access to Proquest databases. many
larger universities as well as community colleges have a proxy or
reverse proxy set up, which does a live querry to a user database
(some use email addresses for authentication). Then the IP address of
the proxy server is allowed to access the database, and all is well.
This does however have quite a large technical overhead, however your
campus appears to be quite tech-savvy in nature, and im sure they
could come up with a viable option. this would make use of the
following proquest document:
http://training.proquest.com/trc/lad/qkprint/iprange.pdf

Another option is to daily or possibly term-ly upload a list of
user-IDs and passwords to proquest:

http://training.proquest.com/trc/lad/qkprint/useridbarcode.pdf

As im not a librarian, just a user, someone else is probably more
qualified to answer this question. Im sure you are not alone.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Scott Blake <sblake at svuca.edu> wrote:
> I'm considering using Evergreen for our small university library.  We
> are going to purchase databases from IEEE and ProQuest.  Are these
> compatible with Evergreen?  Thanks in advance to all who respond!
>
> Scott Blake
> University Librarian
> Silicon Valley University
> 2160 Lundy Ave., Suite128
> San Jose, CA 95131
> (408) 435-8989 x123
> www.svuca.edu
>



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