The only limitation on students using the service from their study bedrooms is that they can only print to a central or departmental printer. This is to allow the project to track all printing from the system. Access to the PDF files is only available to registered members of Loughborough University from a computer with a Loughborough IP address. The documents are restricted initially at the level of the web server. Again, this has been successfully implemented in the first phase.
Usage is tracked at the level of the individual article.
The system records all printing, noting the User ID, Work ID, Date Printed, Printer ID, First Page Printed and Last Page Printed. Leicester has the Libertas library management system. In the latter stages of the project it will test the transportability and validity of the model within the context of a different library system. Discussions with Leicester on the portability of the model are currently underway. This was done at an early stage in the project, and is mentioned earlier in this document.