PDFs in Learning Management Systems

Blackwell

Institutions have the rights within a standard license to compile reading lists and lists of links to relevant content and this is far more preferable for us as usage will then be recorded and access is controlled as the reading lists and other links guide users to Synergy and therefore access is automatically restricted to authorized users. I don’t understand why they would have access problems from remote sites. An authorised user working outside the IP of the institution should be able to access via remote username and password.

With kind regards

Matthew Crook

PDFs in Learning Management Systems

Emerald

Emerald tillater at brukernavn og passord til deres innhold legges i høgskolens LMS, Fronter, siden dette er et sikkert system. Fagsidene kan dermed både inneholde lenkene til de gjeldende artiklene samt påloggingsinformasjonen.

Det er ikke mulig å gjøre PDF-filer av de elektroniske artiklene tilgjengelig gjennom LMS-systemet for studentene.

PDFs in Learning Management Systems

idunn

Flere av høgskolene og universitetene som bruker Fronter som LMS-system har per i dag begynt å ta i bruk tjenesten ”Referring URL”. Referring URL autoriserer brukere og gir tilgang til innhold på idunn.no. Den innebærer at om du logger deg på Fronter og så klikker på en lenke som har blitt lagt inn i Fronter til en artikkel i idunn.no, så skal idunn-plattformen kjenne igjen at du kommer fra en sikker side. Dette betyr at det blir mulig å lenke til idunn.no med full lesetilgang, både for enkeltartikler og hefter i PDF-format uavhengig av hvilken IP-adresse du sitter på.

Tilgangen deles kun ut til kunder som har et sikkert LMS/intranett, der kun autoriserte brukere har tilgang, med individuelle passord. Dette vil si at brukere vil få tilgang til alt innhold på idunn.no, så lenge de har tilgang til deres LMS.

HiO har nå den nødvendige tilgangen.

Det er ikke lov å legge PDF-filer av artikler fra idunn.no i Fronter.

PDFs in Learning Management Systems

Elsevier (ScienceDirect-avtalen)

According to your current ScienceDirect license this is not allowed, as can be derived from the below two clauses. Links can be incorporated in an LMS system but not the content itself.

The Subscriber and its Authorized Users may:

(1.3.3) incorporate links to Excerpts on the Subscriber's intranet and internet websites, provided that the appearance of such links and/or statements accompanying such links shall be changed as reasonably requested by the Licensor; and

(1.3.5) incorporate links to Excerpts in electronic coursepacks, reserves and course management systems for use in connection with courses offered by the Subscriber for academic credit, provided that the Subscriber obtains the prior written consent of the Licensor for use in connection with any non-credit courses.

It appears to me that creating an appropriate remote user set-up is what is really needed here:
At the moment, the best way to acquire remote access to ScienceDirect and Scopus is with a remote username and password.
1. An administrator of the account, or a librarian, is welcome to send us (e-helpdesk) a request for a number of registration IDs. E-helpdesk generates a list of them and sends it, including the instructions on how to activate them, to the librarian. Librarian can distribute the registration IDs to students. Students activate their IDs and in the process create their own user profile, with a username and password. That username and password will give a student access to ScienceDirect and/or Scopus, depending on their institutional subscriptions, from any internet location.

2. The users who have already registered within the IP address range of a given institution have at the moment a username which is IP profiled. And administrator of the account, or a librarian, can look up their username via AdminTool and make it remote. This username will likewise enable them to access their institutional subscriptions from any internet location.

JSTOR

Incorporating PDFs into course packs or study packs is not allowed under the JSTOR Terms and Conditions of Use (refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html).

An alternative to distributing or incorporating articles as PDFs into course packs and study packs is to refer students to the articles in JSTOR by using a stable URL. We ask that you direct the students to the article(s) by establishing links to the JSTOR database on a course web-site, or by otherwise communicating the citation information to students and informing them that the material is available in JSTOR.

All articles in the JSTOR Archive have a stable URL that can be found in the Browse and Search interfaces as well as the Article Information page for each article. Further information on establishing stable links to material in JSTOR may be obtained from User Support at support@jstor.org.