Concurrent User Licenses
Concurrent User Licenses
These models are used in subscription licensing to provide lower-priced access. They preserve the IP-authentication and library administrator features in the Library License, allowing any number of authorized users to be active on the library account for browsing, searching, previewing and exporting title lists. The restriction applies to the number of users who may be actively reading a title in full-text mode at any given time."Read mode" is initiated when a user clicks on the "Read" button to open a book for fulltext viewing. When that user closes the book or moves to another title, the lock is released and the concurrent user limit is increased by one.
When the limit is in force, users attempting to open a title will see only preview pages with a message that the title is temporarily unavailable due to license restrictions.
There are two forms of Concurrent user license: by Account and by Title.
The Complete and Documents Subscription concurrent user licenses place a limit on concurrent users by Account.
The Irwin Law subscription collection limits concurrent users by Title
Limits by Account
Here a counter is set to limit the number of concurrent users permitted to be in “read” mode* on the site to the limit associated with the license fee paid.
A three-user collection license would block reading access by a fourth users until the number of users in "read" mode falls below the limit.
Limits by Title
Here a counter is set to limit the number of concurrent users given access to “Read mode” for a title to the limit associated with the license fee paid.
A three-user title license would block reading access by a fourth user to that title until one of the reading sessions is closed.
In the case of the Irwin Law Collection, with 250 titles in the collection, hypothetically 750 users in one account could be reading fulltext simultaneously.
You can use the “Access Denied" report to assess how frequently turnaways are occurring.
To raise the limit, additional seats may be purchased for the Irwin Law Collection. For Complete and Documents collections, the upgrade path is the unlimited license.
To request an increase in the limit, contact us.
To request an increase in the limit, contact us.
To maximize online availability, downloads are restricted under a Concurrent User license.
Messaging
When a limit has been reached for a given title, these are the messages provided:
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