Libraries seem to favor IP-controlled access over passwords. Dear Miss de Looper, Please allow me to respond to your e-mail message below. I do not believe that password-restricted access will in fact offer greater flexibility than ip access. Flexibility or user-controlled customization is logically independent of the means of initating a session over the internet.
Forgotten passwords create enormous problems for publishers as well as libraries.
Libraries can provide access to remote users by means of ip authentication. In any event, publishers should prompt for a back-up password whenever an unauthorized ip address is detected. It is used successfully hundreds of thousands of times each day. My understanding of copyright is that libraries are not permitted to create their own archives of issues without specific permission of the publisher. I also believe that libraries would prefer not to do this, as it is easier for the publisher to create the means of distribution than for each subscribing library to create and maintain its own local version of the publisher's server.