2nd September 2021
Following the migration to the Silverchair platform, The Company of Biologists have signed up with the IPregistry.org, to make it much easier for customers to verify and update institutional IP addresses.
The IP address data held for library customers has been cross-checked against the IPregistry.org’s repository of validated IP addresses covering over 70,000 organisations worldwide. We are now receiving updated IP address data daily, thereby reducing the administrative burden further for the high proportion of our library customers that are already participating in the IPregistry.org.
Libraries that are not yet participating in the IPregistry.org can sign up free of charge at https://app.theipregistry.org.
Richard Grove, Commercial Manager at The Company of Biologists, says: “We value our partnerships with libraries enormously and we believe that our partnership with the IPregistry.org demonstrates our ongoing commitment to improving the service we offer. Managing and updating IP addresses in multiple publisher systems is time consuming and labour intensive for librarians and it is easy to make errors. The IPregistry.org enables librarians to check and update their IP address data in a central place and to communicate changes to participating publishers – including The Company of Biologists – simultaneously with a single click.”
Andrew Pitts, CEO and Co-founder of the IPRegistry.org, says: “Working with the IPregistry.org will allow The Company of Biologists to be more responsive to the IP address updates submitted. They will be offering their customers a faster, more reliable, easier, safer and more secure way to update the IP addresses used to authenticate access to content.”