Allowing only a specific email domain for account creation
Allowing only a specific email domain (the one of the institution) for account creation (via IP)
Torsten Bux
shared this idea
The Ebook Central team has reviewed this idea and this work has been planned on our short-term roadmap. Thank you for your feedback and support.
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Erik van Binsbergen
commented
When a user creates an Ebook Central account, it should possible to validate the account only if the email/username includes one or more specific strings in the domain. The administrator in LibCentral should still be able to create a user account without the specific string(s) in the email/username domain.
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Beth Johns
commented
This would add an extra layer of authentication (which is present in other ProQuest functions, such as this very site, Idea Exchange) to prevent illegitimate accounts from accessing and downloading ebooks.
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H. Carbeno
commented
Require patrons use a root email address selected by the institution (example: @[institution].edu), and verify the legitimacy of that address before creating account (patrons receive email with link to complete the setup process).
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Catherine O'Sullivan
commented
You can currently add an optional (or mandatory) field to the request form within the custom text settings. We ask for their University ID number which allows us to look them up on the LMS.
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Patsy Yang
commented
If this is acted upon, please make it an option, since not all schools host email accounts for students. Outs doesn't, so this would make it very difficult for our students to make a purchase request.
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James Blake
commented
This is a good idea - but I think it needs to be optional. For instance, we have students on short courses who aren't given a university email address, but we still want to receive their requests. So we'd opt to keep things as they are.
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Anonymous
commented
Purchase requests can now be made from any email address. We would like to exclude (requests from) email addresses that are not within our university email domains, in other words only allowing requests from users who have a university email address.