Does JSTOR offer password accounts as an alternative to IP-based authentication?
At this time, JSTOR does not offer password accounts as an authentication option for academic institutions, except in specific limited circumstances. One difficulty with password accounts is that JSTOR cannot verify individuals’ affiliations with participating sites. There is currently no standard way for libraries or their institutions to communicate to us who the individuals are that make up their faculty, staff and students. While some resource providers offer one or two password accounts that are shared among users at individual institutions, our experience has been that this method presents different, but significant, security problems. For example, passwords can be easily and quickly shared with unaffiliated users, or easily posted to a public web page.
