RE: WAM and abusing liscensed materials

["Schwartz, Nathan" <Nathan dot Schwartz at indwes dot edu>]

Tae,

I would recommend not having 100% of your traffic come through your III server. I would have local traffic from your institution rout directly. Give the vendors the institutional IP range which includes your III server. Then have your off-campus users utilize the proxy system. The reason is server load. If 100% of your users are utilizing the proxy you might experience database access delays. Some database servers timeout when the server load is heavy and slow. By sending your local campus users directly you may lessen the server load, plus your local users will notice slightly faster database connections. The only reasons I can think of for sending 100% of your users through the proxy is statistics and or simplification of access methods. See my example http://www.indwes.edu/Library/marion_indices.html

Although this method may alleviate the heavy IP access to the vendors, I have found that most vendors are well aware of proxy method access and quite used to seeing single IP's with heavy use. None the less, informing them you are using a proxy method couldn't hurt.

Sincerely
Nathan


Nathan Schwartz
Electronic Resources/ Reference Librarian
Indiana Wesleyan University
4201 South Washington Street
Marion, IN  46953
 
email: nathan dot schwartz at indwes dot edu
phone: 765.677.2181
fax:   765.677.2676

-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org [mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Kwon, Tae-hun
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:35 PM
To: innopac at innovativeusers dot org
Subject: WAM and abusing liscensed materials

Hello IUG,

As a new customer migrating to III/Millennium, I have a question about WAM.
Currently our university provides eletronic materials to users with IP restriction method.
So, campus-wide access is available, however, off-campus access is not.
If we use WAM, as you konw, off-campus access is also available.
In order to use WAM properly, we should ask publishers to change availalbe IP range from current to III server's IP.
To date once or twice in a year we recieved warning messages from publishers when certain IP was detected for bulky downloads.
Usually they blocked that IP until we sent an understandable reason for bulky dowloads after an investigation.
Every access of our institution will go out with one IP(III server's IP) in WAM environment. 
Even though a lot of legitimate access is from one IP, if publishers are considering those access as abusing liscensed materials, and they are supposed to block that IP. Therefore, nobody in campus use that liscensed material because all access is go out with one IP. 
Is it possible assumption ? In order to prevent this thing happen, what am I suppoesd to do ?
Any advice will be most appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Tae-hun Kwon
POSTECH in Korea


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Kwon, Tae-hun
Librarian
Academic Information Team
POSTECH
Phone: 82-54-279-2548
Fax: 82-54-279-3599
Email : r00kie at postech dot ac dot kr
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