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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) ABOUT CIS/ED AND WEB ACCESS

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  1. Does the Web site include all the content of the former Print Volumes and CDROM?
  2. Will you have links to on-line abstracts and full text?
  3. Can we get utilization statistics for accesses from our site to CIS?
  4. Can I link to CIS using reference management software like Endnote or Reference Manager, or by the Z39.50 protocol??

    5. Getting access, scope of access

  5. Do you offer access to the central Web site for Personal license subscribers??
  6. Do we need to set up passwords for access to CIS?
  7. How do I go about getting a professor/employee off-site access to the CIS web search?
  8. Does my institution's subscription to the CIS/ED on the Web have to run on a calendar year?
  9. A particularly school or department of my university is ordering the index. Is it still possible to have access university-wide?
  10. My campus is in more than one location. Can it all be covered by one license?
  11. What is the meaning of "single corporate site" under the General and Commercial licenses?
  12. Do we have to sign a license agreement for each new release?
  1. Does the Web site include all the content of the former Print Volumes and CDROM?

    • Yes, and more besides. However, a few items (mainly book reviews) have not yet been fully incorporated into the current search engine and can only be reached with the "Old Style" engine.

  2. Will you have links to on-line abstracts and full text?

    • We are constantly working on our search interface, and linkages to on-line abstracts and content will be an important part of that work. We capture a limited number of abstracts from journals whose contents we receive in electronic form, and will make them available as part of the search results. The more important development will come in terms of linkages to publisher's sites, since no indexing service owns the contents of the articles in the journals we index. Although statistics as a field has lagged in development of on-line journal content, several publishers are making content available on their web sites, and the professional societies are also in the process of moving in this direction with their journals.

  3. Can we get utilization statistics for accesses from our site to CIS?

    • We are able to run utilization statistics (number of times accessed) by license. We will provide these statistics by request to question@statindex.org but we are not currently set up to push these statistics out in an automated way.

  4. Can I link to CIS using reference management software like Endnote or Reference Manager, or by the Z39.50 protocol?

    • We don't serve up records by these standard protocols. However, once you look up references through our standard interface, you can probably bring them into some forms of reference management software pretty easily. First, output them in a standard format, either Refer or Tagged Text, and save the results to a file (excluding header information). Then import them into your program. We have been told by users that this is completely automatic in Endnote 7: use the default import choice, select the options Import option: Endnote import; Duplicates : Import all; translation: No translation. Then browse for the file and pull it in. The file then might require a little touch-up because of information that Refer does not transmit.

  5. Do you offer access to the central Web site for Personal license subscribers??

    • Yes, Personal licenses for the CIS query site are now for sale through the ASA.subscriptions site for nonmembers, and are available free to all AMA and IMS members. For members see the links at the top of the CIS home page.

  6. Do we need to set up passwords for access to CIS (for institutional subscribers)?

    • Our access control for institutional subscribers is solely by IP range, and that range should correspond to addresses on your licensed network (campus, agency, corporation). The methods you use to keep your network and computers secure are up to you. However, you are responsible to make all reasonable efforts to make sure that only your authorized users obtain access to CIS through your system, similar to controls you use for other resources that you provide or license.

  7. How do I go about getting a professor/employee/student off-site access to the CIS web search?

    • This type of access is permitted under University and Commercial license categories, as long as it is controlled to be limited to those authorized to have access under your license terms.

      Our access control is solely by IP range, and that range should correspond to addresses on your campus network. For off-campus access you might consider one of the following options:

      1. Off-campus employees can log in to an on-campus computer and run a graphical browser from that machine with remote display on the home computer.
      2. Off-campus faculty can log in to an on-campus computer with a command-line session under Unix, and then use a text browser. We have found the Lynx browser to give good results with our search interfaces.
      3. The institution can set up a proxy server configured to accept connections only from authorized users (via password protection). This is fairly common setup for libraries that handle access for a campus.
      4. With some dial-up servers, off-campus logins are dynamically assigned a hostname that falls within the address space of the campus network and is recognized by your nameserver. This will only work if the CIS server is able to recognize, either by IP number ranges, or through an IP name that is listed in a name server, that this hostname falls within your authorized range.

      We cannot accomodate direct logins from an employee using an ISP since those have dynamically assigned hostnames and we would have enable access for the entire ISP and its customers.

  8. Does my institution's subscription to the CIS/ED on the Web have to run on a calendar year?

    • No, we will start your license when the order is completed and access is set up. Then your renewals will fall on the anniversaries of that date.

  9. A particular school or department of my university is ordering the Index . Is it still possible to have access university-wide?

    • Yes, as long as it is a single campus, broadly defined. For example, at many universities the medical school is near the hospitals rather than contiguous with the rest of the campus, but it is under a common administration and within the same city. On the other hand, totally distinct campuses (e.g. campuses in different cities of a state university) should be licensed separately.

  10. My campus is in more than one location. Can it all be covered by one license?

    • See the answer to the previous question. There is a wide variety of physical arrangements of universities, but usually the criteria of single overall administration in the same metro area can be applied clearly.

  11. What is the meaning of "single corporate site" under the General and Commercial licenses?

    • Generally we view a "single corporate site" as being analogous to a single university campus, so it would be located within a single metropolitan area and under a single ownership, although not necessarily in the same building or physically contiguous buildings. The users outside the site (who are allowed access under the Commercial license, but not the General license) are then analogous to travelling faculty or people at remote laboratories of the university, who have accounts on the main system located at the campus and access the database through those. If you have a question about how to license corporate access for a large multisite (or multinational) corporation please send a message describing your needs and we will describe the pricing precedents that apply.

  12. Do we have to sign a license agreement for each new release?

    • No, we have eliminated the need for sending a license agreement. You click to indicate consent to license terms when you give us your IP range information, and that only has to be done once.

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Last updated: 07/20/2006    [Send a question or comment]