Dear Colleagues, I am faced with a unique situation with my management with regards to online journal subscription. We have one main library and 13 branch libraries all over India. We subscribe to online copies of only some of the relevant journals to these branch libraries. My management in an effort to cut costs is now asking us to subscribe to just one one online copy at the headquarters (main library) and work out how access can be provided to the other branch libraries (they are giving the logic that if we can get access to our institute email account from any where in the world we should be able to subscribe to just one online copy for our main library and get access from any of the other branch libraries all over India). I have tried convincing them that we already have multi-site licensing to the online journals that we provide online access to at our other centers and that the servers on which the publishers host their journals are located with the publishers that we cannot control and hence the logic of providing multi-site online access to different centers all over India based on the model of emails is not possible. I am however trying to seek more concrete proof of convincing my management that the model of emails access cannot be applied to accessing online journals and that we need to subscribe to online journals for each of these branch libraries via multi-site license only. I seek your help in this regard. Could you please provide me more guidance in this regard and also any reference to literature on the topic !?! Thanking you and with kind regards, Dr.Smita ChandraLibrarianIndian Institute of Geomagnetism,Navi Mumbai -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.