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4. The Practice
Uniqueness The egateway access portal facility customized for on and off campus access

was designed and implemented for the first time in our country. RemoteXs is a cloud-based

service that provides a single portal for accessing a variety of e-content, remote
access authentication with one login for all content, the allocation of fixed IP addresses for

institutions, and usage statistics for all e-resources.

Constraints Some selective e-resources such as Scifinder Scholar, CMIE, etc have special
access permission (requires individual patron registration in their portal). These are the

tedious tasks for accessing through the cloud IP addresses. The other challenging issue was
the accessing of the content from the Library Stand-alone server through the egateway portal

(like British Euro Codes, Web OPAC and Institutional Repositories etc). This is solved now.

5. Evidence of Success Good feedback from our end-users and members as they access both
on and off campus. Members can save their time during the daytime schedule and hence

research outcome of the institute has improved. Because entire traffic is routed from

egateway cloud-based servers so the monthly normal usage is around 100GB of research data
download on an average.

6. Problems Encountered and Resources Required In rare cases, technical issues occurred
at the publisher’s end, and was reflected the egateway portal. The number of footfalls has

decreased to a considerable extent.

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