[OPLINTECH] Free online access to Morningstar and others

[Phil Shirley]

Ok, we're not going to do that Morningstar thing, but we still might try 
to do something with some sort of free online access that comes with 
other print subscriptions.

Phil

On 1/20/2012 12:48 PM, Phil Shirley wrote:
> 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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