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How
to Access CEPR Discussion Papers Online
Subscribers
can choose between two authentication procedures – Site Authorisation or Login
ID & Password. Each procedure has advantages and disadvantages and is
suitable for different users.
Site
Authorisation
This
will be the preferred option for most subscribers
because it enables all users at the subscribing site (i.e., a university campus,
an institution, or a corporation) to download the full text of all our
Discussion Papers. [If your organisation already subscribes to online Working
Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), it may be helpful to
know that the process of establishing online access to CEPR Discussion Papers is
very similar.] To establish Site Authorisation, CEPR needs to know your Domain
Name and Network Number(s).
Domain Name: Your Domain Name is usually the
information that follows the @ in your email address. For example, our Domain
Name is ‘cepr.org’.
Network
Number: In
order to authenticate downloads from more than one computer in your institution,
we would need to know your Network Number (which is not the same as your
computer's IP address). You would probably need to ask your Network
Administrator for your Network Number. It will represent a range of IP
addresses, and the range of addresses must cover all the computers from which
you want users to be authorized to download papers. Depending on the terms of
your site license, this may represent all the computers within your department,
or within your entire university or your firm. Your Network Number will follow a
'dotted quad' formula -- it is four sets of 1-3 digits, separated by periods.
For example, your Network Number might look like 212.32.32.0 or 123.167.55.0. In
the first example given above, if your Network Number was 212.32.32.0, your
computer's IP address might be 212.32.32.145. In most cases, your Network Number
will end in 0. It is not the same as your
computer's IP address, which is only one of the many addresses covered by your
Network Number. Because your IP address can only correspond to one computer, we
cannot use it to authenticate downloads from all the computers covered by your
site license.
Our
system is flexible and we can easily adapt it to your requirements. Many
libraries, for example, need to list working papers in their Online Public
Access Catalogue (OPAC). This is easy to do: once we have set up your
authentication we will supply you with the url which will allow all your
authorized users to access our Discussion Papers.
Login ID & Password
Site Authorisation is convenient, but may
not be appropriate for all subscribers.
For example, if you have dial-up access to the Internet via a commercial ISP
such as AOL, you should choose a Login ID and Password instead of site
authorisation.
If you already subscribe to the CEPR
Discussion Paper series under our annual payment scheme, we would be pleased to
authenticate your access to the online versions of all relevant Discussion
Papers right away. Please click here
for further details.
If you have
any questions regarding this information, please refer to our Frequently
Asked Questions, or contact
our Publications Support Desk at subscribers@cepr.org
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