[OPLINTECH] Free online access to Morningstar and others

[Phil Shirley]

One of our librarians is looking into canceling our online subscription 
to Morningstar and instead using the free access that comes with our 
print subscription. I expressed doubt, but she said that it seemed to be 
the same database and that the salesman said we could have multiple 
users and remote access. I still can't believe it would be equivalent. 
Do any of you have any experience with this or with the free online 
access that comes with other print subscriptions?

If we were to provide access to any of these, we would be faced with the 
challenge of providing access to these without giving the username and 
password, which I think are usually required (certainly for 
Morningstar), to the world -- probably by building them invisibly into 
some kind of re-direct script, if the web site for the resource in 
question could handle it, which might not be too difficult I suppose.

Phil
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Phil Shirley
Technology Services Coordinator
Cuyahoga Falls Library
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
330-928-2117, ext. 109
pshirley at CuyahogaFallsLibrary dot org

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