Comments on: Currency, Convenience and Access http://litablog.org/2005/10/currency-convenience-and-access/ Library and Information Technology Association Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:19:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Thomas Dowling http://litablog.org/2005/10/currency-convenience-and-access/comment-page-1/#comment-296 Thomas Dowling Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:27:12 +0000 http://litablog.org/?p=138#comment-296 You say, "In Q&A after the session, though, I think the authentication issue is still being resolved." Nah, nothing's still being resolved. ProQuest is simply not putting anything in the RSS feed they aren't willing to give away for free to the public. Links to full text then require authentication, but [probably] happen in a browser that can manage that capably. That isn't a knock against ProQuest - RSS clients really don't seem to have any authentication methods. A server could impose IP checking, but that's about it. PQ's method works for something like Digital Dissertations where the citation is really an advertisement for their full text. It isn't going to work for something like PsycINFO where the citation itself is the licensed content of the database. You say, “In Q&A after the session, though, I think the authentication issue is still being resolved.”

Nah, nothing’s still being resolved. ProQuest is simply not putting anything in the RSS feed they aren’t willing to give away for free to the public. Links to full text then require authentication, but [probably] happen in a browser that can manage that capably.

That isn’t a knock against ProQuest – RSS clients really don’t seem to have any authentication methods. A server could impose IP checking, but that’s about it. PQ’s method works for something like Digital Dissertations where the citation is really an advertisement for their full text. It isn’t going to work for something like PsycINFO where the citation itself is the licensed content of the database.

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