Comments on: Electronic Resources Security: A look at Unauthorized Users

By: Patrick Berry

Patrick Berry — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:07:19 +0000

that is of course:

while()

By: Patrick Berry

Patrick Berry — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:05:17 +0000

In the sample code, you might want to make a change to the while loop so that it doesn’t run for infinity.

- while() {
+ while() {

By: Is China that scary? | Bibliographic Wilderness

Is China that scary? | Bibliographic Wilderness — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:25:14 +0000

[...] anecdotal observations are that indeed efforts to pirate scholarly articles often originate in China, Russia, and other [...]

By: Library values and the growing scholarly digital divide: In memoriam Aaron Swartz | Bibliographic Wilderness

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:13:50 +0000

[...] by drip and drab as well as in bulk, if they care to look for it. (See for example, Heather Tones White, “Electronic Resources Security: A look at Unauthorized Users” in the Code4Lib Journal.) We know that people regularly take advantage of our networks to [...]

By: Jonathan Rochkind

Jonathan Rochkind — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:05:01 +0000

Interseting related anecdote from a blog post by Karen Coyle:

“This person told me that all access to one of the UC campuses had been cut off recently for a few days because it was discovered that someone was systematically downloading entire journal runs. When they found the student it turned out that it was a foreign graduate student who would soon be returning home. Knowing that leaving the UC system would mean losing access to the journals he would need to continue his research, he was making himself a copy to take home.”

http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2011/07/unequal-access.html

By: Heather Tones White

Heather Tones White — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:55:41 +0000

Hello Tim,
Our University IT manages the underlying password/username authentication. The Library can use either CAS or LDAP to authenticate our patrons against their University password/username. Currently there is no policy to require password changes periodically – this probably would be a good thing to do, although a bit annoying from a user perspective. Thanks for the comments.

By: Tim Ribaric

Tim Ribaric — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:23:10 +0000

Just wondering what the underlying password/username authentication was? Something homegrown or LDAP based? Our LDAP passwords expire after 120 days so any stolen/phished password only has 4 month self life. Not the best thing to rely on but I try to tell myself that it is.

By: Jodi Schneider

Jodi Schneider — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:01:43 +0000

“E-Resource license agreements and authentication systems have become as much about keeping people out as they are about letting people in and libraries now have an active role in keeping people out.” – A sad truth about libraries today–and one of the main things that turns patrons against libraries.