What is the problem?

PSI has been working with publishers for many years, helping them to work together to address overarching problems affecting the community as a whole. PSI aims to facilitate legitimate access to content generally by enabling collaboration between publishers and their customers and specifically, through theIPregistry.org, by improving the reliability of IP address data and the way it is communicated and managed. The initial clean up project undertaken by PSI indicated that 58% of the IP ranges publishers held to authenticate their institutional customers were incorrect. Creation of theIPregistry.org has helped to dramatically improve this situation which can be costly to both publishers and libraries for many reasons:

Unlicensed access – too broad an IP range can facilitate institutions piggy-backing on the licences of others and thus gaining free access.

Inaccurate usage statistics – wrongly entered, duplicated or over-lapping IP ranges can cause accesses and/or downloads to be counted multiple times. Too narrow an IP range can mean institutions have insufficient access and lead to increased turn-aways.

How does the IP Registry help Open Access Publishers?

OA publishers have difficulty in gauging impact of content when they cannot measure usage nor identify consumers.

By linking log files to the IP Registry publishers can understand where access is coming from, better measure impact and target future marketing activity.

How it works

The IP Registry currently holds over 1.5 billion validated IP addresses from over 70,000 content licensing organisations worldwide. Approved administrators at each institution will log additions, edits and updates for validation by PSI and these will be made available to publishers.

Either manually or via our API, publishers will populate their access management systems with the appropriate and validated IP addresses for each customer organisation or consortium.

Publishers can be confident that only the licensed organisations are accessing their content and that their usage stats provide a true reflection of actual access.

What you need to do

Simply register using the form below and we’ll send you a full proposal and provide access to theIPregistry.org

How much does it cost?

Publishers participate in the program
with an annual fee based on size.

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brillpublishing Brill Publishing @brillpublishing ·
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We are offering a new service to our customers to help improve the process of updating the IP addresses used for access authentication. We are now working with @ip_registry and asking subscribers to submit all updates via http://theIPregistry.org

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ip_registry The IP Registry @ip_registry ·
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Brill Publishing is extending the partnership with
@ip_registry to include additional content. This means that more @BrillPublishing subscribers will be able to enjoy the benefits of https://theIPregistry.org
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ip_registry The IP Registry @ip_registry ·
7 Mar

We're happy to say that the Royal Society of Chemistry has partnered with @ip_registry to make the process of checking, monitoring and updating the IP addresses used to authenticate access to e-book content easier.
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ip_registry The IP Registry @ip_registry ·
28 Feb

Do you subscribe to either Public Information Online or the Civil Service Yearbook from @DBooksellers? Make sure your IP data is correct in http://theIPregistry.org to make sure your access to content is set up correctly.
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Do you subscribe to Dandy Booksellers (@DBooksellers) content? Make sure your IP address data is correct in http://theIPregistry.org to make sure your access to content is set up correctly.
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16 Feb

Do you subscribe to @AnnualReviews content? Don’t forget to confirm your IPs at http://theIPregistry.org to make sure your access to content is set up correctly.
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7 Feb

🎉 2023 has started with a big milestone for Research4Life! Our users in 125+ countries and territories can now access up to 200,000 resources.

Celebrate with us 👉 http://ow.ly/QEm250ML9jb

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31 Jan

We're delighted to feature in the @R4LPartnership newsletter today. We love the work that R4L are doing and have been happy to support their efforts every way we can over the past few years. Check out the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq32ErwyXok
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25 Jan

Public Information Online and the Civil Service Yearbook will soon be managing IP address updates from their subscribers via @ip_registry. #Publisher @DBooksellers is encouraging #libraries to register for FREE access to https://app.theipregistry.org.
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We're happy to say that @RoySocChem is now working with @ip_registry. Don’t forget to confirm your IPs at http://theIPregistry.org to make sure your access to e-book content is set up correctly.
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“I believe it’s a valuable service and I hope that more content providers will keep track of IP changes through here. Just this week I’m auditing our IP addresses with a major aggregator, and their list of our IP addresses is a mess. If they subscribed to the IP Registry, they, their customers, and the accuracy of their customers’ usage data would all benefit greatly.”

“The University of Cambridge warmly supports the IP Registry initiative and looks forward to the greater efficiencies it will bring, not least in reducing the admin overhead with multiple publishers and in ensuring reliability for our usage statistics data”

“… we LOVE the work you are doing – such a great collaboration and time saver for all!”

“I’ve been following this project for a few years and think it was a stroke of genius. It will save a lot of time on my end for sure.”

“I would like to say that the idea where libraries will give their essential data to publishers in only one place is great!”

“It makes me very happy when I receive an email saying that one of our vendors has joined theIPregistry.org. It makes managing our IP addresses so much easier.  Thank you!!”

“This is a great service, and I am grateful for the brilliant service and support!”

“Thanks for the great service that IP Registry provides vendors and libraries.”