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How BiblioWeb Users Are Licensed

To satisfy the needs of our customers, BiblioWeb server is licensed in three ways. You should pick the one best that fits your needs. You can switch to another license mode later, at any time.

License by the number of users

This is the ideal solution for Intranet use. When the BiblioWeb server starts, it will check the number of users registered in the user table. If it exceeds the number of users licensed, the server won't start. To prevent one user account being used by multiple users, the IP address is checked and logged when a web user logs in to the server. One user can't access the server from more than 5 different machines (based on IP address). If a user accesses the Internet through ISP dialup access, the IP address is different each time a user dials up to the Web. So you should not choose this license mode if your Web users access the Web through dialup access.

There are two types of user account you can purchase: Write user account and Read user account. Web users with a "Write" account can add new references through a Web browser, or edit existing references if they were created by the same user. Web users with a "Read" account can only search and browse references. A "Read" user account is much cheaper than a "Write" user account.

License by the number of hits

When the BiblioWeb server serve a request, it is counted as a "hit". A hit can be a search request, or a graphic file inside a Web page. During a user session, the same graphic won't be counted twice for a hit, because it will have been cached in the user's Web browser. All hits served by the BiblioWeb server are logged. When licensed by the number of hits, BiblioWeb server does not care how many users you support, whether they are "Write" accounts or "Read" accounts. As long as the number of hits served by the BiblioWeb server does not exceed the number of hits licensed, the BiblioWeb server will function. Once this number is exceeded, you need to purchase more hits. This is an ideal solution if your Web users are Internet users and they connect to the Web through ISP dialup access.

License by the number of concurrent users:

You can also license BiblioWeb server by the number of concurrent users. Under this mode, the BiblioWeb server does not care about the number of users supported or the number of hits served, as long as the number of users currently logged on to the server does not exceed the number licensed. When a Web user logs on, it is counted as one concurrent user. If this user does not send any request to the server for 15 minutes, he or she is automatically logged off. The number of concurrent users is decremented by one.

Note: Biblioscape Professional edition comes with 3 "Write" user accounts, 3 "Read" user accounts, 50,000 hits accounts, or 1 concurrent user account. Biblioscape Librarian edition comes with 3 concurrent user accounts. You can switch to another license mode at any time.