Ditto to Andreas.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Andreas Orphanides <akorp...@ncsu.edu> </div><div>Date:01/28/2014 9:29 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU </div><div>Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ? </div><div> </div>That's simple for the techs, but VPNs can be a royal pain in the keester if you're an end-user, for a variety of reasons. It should be incumbent on us as information specialists to unburden the user to the extent possible. On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Aaron Addison <addi...@library.umass.edu>wrote: > Some use Squid, its not hard to set up. But most vendors publish rules > with ezproxy in mind. > > The other fairly simple solution is to run a VPN for access, and require > people to use that. > > Aaron > > > On Tuesday, January 28, 2014, stuart yeates <stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz> > wrote: > > > We've just received notification of forth-coming changes to EZProxy, > which > > will require us to pay an arm and a leg for future versions to install > > locally and/or host with OCLC AU with a ~ 10,000km round trip. > > > > What are the alternatives? > > > > cheers > > stuart > > -- > > Stuart Yeates > > Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/ > > >
