Re Ariel email--when those license rules were written, Ariel did not include
email to patron. Ariel's email support for sending to the borrowing library
emails the article as a multi-page TIFF with a separate header file to what
should be a dedicated Ariel email address. Ariel then imports the
I've been using Article Exchange for all deliveries that would otherwise have
used Ariel or Prospero since it was first announced. It seems to be working
very well, with no issues reported of articles not received. There was one
article that was received blank, but I think that was an error
Ariel 4.1 will print to pdf with no problem from the received queue. Just right
click the document, select print, select Adobe pdf as your printer, and it runs
with no problem.
Joe Ellison
Document Delivery and Digital Initiatives Assistant
Transportation Library
Northwestern University Library
This generally means the server at Infotrieve to which Ariel checks in is down.
Depending on where the server is, there may be no one available to reboot it
until tomorrow.
Joe Ellison
Document Delivery and Digital Initiatives Assistant
Transportation Library, Northwestern University
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Hi Don,
This came up in a round-about way on the ILLiad list as well. One possible
downside to getting rid of Ariel as a borrower is the difficulty this creates
in receiving articles from BRI. They require either Ariel or the use of Adobe's
Secure Electronic Delivery. This latter is an
I'm not using Ariel anymore, so I'm going on memory here, but I don't recall
there being any multiple selection options for those lists. I suppose you could
export the address book and patron list, weed them in their exported state,
delete all (I think there's a batch command for _that_)
