[Koha] Managing digital subscriptions

[Coehoorn, Joel]

I bet it wouldn't be hard to use the dev tools in any browser to trick that
script into thinking I'm logged in, even if I don't have an account at all.



Joel Coehoorn
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Robin Hastings <rhastings at nekls.org> wrote:

> We use some jquery to make a link to Flipster (our digital magazine
> service) available only after someone has logged in. I adjusted this -
>
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/JQuery_Library#Add_a_link_to_the_header_only_if_a_patron_is_logged_into_the_OPAC
> -
> bit of code and it works nicely.
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:07 PM Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer.83 at web.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Doug,
> >
> > at the moment Koha can't control access to files depending on log in,
> > IP, or similar.
> >
> > You could make the bibliographic records only visible when accessed from
> > an IP within the library, but the users could e-mail themselves the
> > records with the URLs.
> >
> > So I think you really want to control who is able to access the files
> > outside of Koha.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Katrin
> >
> > Am 18.07.2016 um 22:06 schrieb Doug Dearden:
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > We have received notice from one of the journals we subscribe to that
> > they are going to only be providing digital format in the future.  For
> > copyright reasons I don't think we can just download this file then link
> to
> > it using the 856u field as that would make it downloadable by anyone.  I
> > looked through the manual but didn't find anything to address this.  I
> > believe the ideal situation is for the document to be viewable at a
> > workstation inside the library, but not through the public OPAC.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to handle this?
> > >
> > > We are on an older version (3.16) but I am quite prepared to update to
> > the latest release as needed.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Doug Dearden
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