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1. My institution has a subscription to The Biological Bulletin,and access to The Biological Bulletin Online, but I'm not able to see the full text of articles. I'm prompted for a username and password. Why is this happening?

   When this happens, the IP address for your machine is not being recognized by our computer. This failure is caused by one of three things:

   Your institutional subscription has not yet been activated.

   The person who "activated" the online subscription did not enter in all needed IP addresses for your institution.

   The person who "activated" the online subscription does not realize that some subnets of your institution are routed through a proxy server.

   What should I do?

   1. Talk to your librarian, and let them know you are having trouble.
   2. Send us Feedback so we can begin to diagnose the problem.

2. My library subscribes to The Biological Bulletin, but I can't get access to it online. Why?

   Your institution has not yet activated its institutional subscription to The Biological Bulletin Online. Notify your library that you would like access to The Biological Bulletin Online, and encourage your librarian to activate the online subscription.

3. Who from my institution can access The Biological Bulletin Online?

   Access to the Journal is granted for all Authorized Users: authenticated, authorized current full and part-time students, employees (including faculty, staff, affiliated researchers, and independent contractors), and other individuals who have permission to use the public computers on the Institutional Subscriber's campus. See Guidelines for Internet Access to Journals

4. What is an Institution?

   An Institution is all parts of an organization that report to the same Chief Academic Officer or Chief Executive Officer. For multi-campus academic institutions, each organization listed in the Directory of Higher Education is a separate institution. Academic law and academic medical libraries may be part of a University if they report either to the same institutional Chief Academic Officer or the Chief Executive Officer. See Guidelines for Internet Access to Journals

5. How will this work?

   When someone attempts to access The Biological Bulletin Online, our server checks to see if the requesting computer is within the list of internet IP addresses provided by a subscribing institution. If it is, the reader will be able to use all those services enabled for institutional readers. For institutional subscribers, there are no usernames or passwords to remember, and there is currently no limit to the number of readers from your institution who may simultaneously access The Biological Bulletin Online.

   If readers want to access The Biological Bulletin Online from computers that are not part of your institutional network (e.g.,through dial-in or telnet through a commercial Internet service provider), they can do so only through an individual subscription.

6. What subscription packages are available?

   Two subscription types are available: an online-only version, and a print and online version.

   Subscribers have online access to tables of contents, abstracts, full text searching, full text display, document delivery, PDFs, links to Medline and GenBank, and future tables of contents.

   Member Subscribers have password access to The Biological Bulletin Online from any computer connected to the Internet.

   [Ordering Procedure] [Cost] [ MBL Membership ]

   Individual (Non-Member) Subscribers have password access to The Biological Bulletin Online from any computer connected to the Internet.

   [Ordering Procedure] [Cost]

   Institutional Subscribers' access is limited to computers within a particular set of internet IP addresses.

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7. How can I tell if my institution has subscribed to The Biological Bulletin Online?

   If your institution has a subscription, you'll automatically have access to the tables of contents, abstracts, full-text searching, full text display, PDFs, Medline and GenBank links, and future tables of contents. You'll also see a button at the top of the page confirming you're signed in as part of an institution.

8. Can my institution subscribe only to the electronic version?

   Yes. This optiion is available, beginning in 2007.

9. Will we still be able to get the paper version? And for how long?

   Yes, institutions and individuals will continue to have the option of purchasing a print and online (bundled) subscription for the foreseeable future.

10. If our Biological Bulletin Online subscription expires and at some later date we reinstate our subscription, will we have access to all years of the electronic version?

    Yes, when you buy a subscription to The Biological Bulletin Online, you have access to all years available in the database.

11. How can I access The Biological Bulletin Online if I don't have access through an institutional subscription?

    You may purchase The Biological Bulletin as an Individual (Non-Member) subscriber or you may wish to apply for MBL Corporation Membership. Without a subscription you have access to the table of contents, abstracts, and full text searching (but not full text viewing) at no cost and without having to register.

Still have questions?

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