In the days when journals were published only on paper, if you
wanted to use a journal at another library, you had to travel to the library. If
you wanted to read the journal on the UI campus, we had to purchase a
subscription for our library.
It works the same way in the electronic world. You can read any journal to which
a library subscribes inside their library or on their campus network. If we want
electronic access to a title on our campus, we pay the full subscription price,
and (usually) an additional surcharge for electronic access. Journal publishers
limit remote electronic access to current students, faculty, and staff of the
subscribing campus, controlled by IP address. For those coming in from outside
the campus network, we're required to verify their identity as an authorized
user. Libraries use proxy servers for this purpose, verifying identities by
requiring a log-in and checking that against a campus database of users (we use
library bar codes).
We can order a copy of any article you need through Interlibrary Loan, at no
charge to you, and deliver it to your desktop in a few days. In most cases, this
is considerably less expensive than placing a subscription.
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