These files are intended to accompany a column I wrote for the MLA News 
May 2001 on using JavaScript to automate logins for electronic 
journals.

Here's what is in the zip file:

README- This file

Loginpage.htm – contains the simplified forms that I need for our 
journals. You need to change this file to include simplified forms for 
your library's journals. Once you've done it for one journal it is much 
easier to do others.

Loginframes.htm – frames page that creates the two frames: the visible 
one with the journal home page and the invisible one with the login 
form that gets submitted automatically. You need to modify this for 
your library's journals.

NEnglJMed.htm – simplified non-frames page that logins in only to the 
New England Journal of Medicine. If you have a subscription to this 
journal, you can simply save this web page and edit it to replace 
EXAMPLE with your real username and password.

Lancet.htm – simplified non-frames page that logins in only to Lancet. 
If you have a subscription to this journal, you can simply save this 
web page and edit it to replace EXAMPLE with your real username and 
password.

These files won't work properly "as is". You need to save them locally 
and modify them to reflect your own journals. I set this up using 
FrontPage, so I know it's doable. 

If you currently have a subscription to either Lancet or the New 
England Journal of Medicine, I would start with one of these two. It's 
easier to see what is going on. 

If you save this to disk and then edit it with Notepad or FrontPage 
(you'll have to view HTML not Normal or Preview) and change EXAMPLE to 
your username and password, then open the modified page, it should log 
you in to the journal automatically. If you view the source of this 
example I've tried to explain what's going on in the comments. If you 
don't have either New England Journal of Medicine or the Lancet, let me 
know and I can try another journal.

This doesn't require advanced web technology but it does require some 
knowledge of HTML. Let me know if you can get the New England Journal 
of Medicine example working. I'd like this to work for folks, but I 
need to know what can be clearer.

 Matthew W. Eberle  
Librarian  
Percy Howe Memorial Library  
The Forsyth Institute  
140 The Fenway  
Boston, MA 02115  
Tel: 617.262.5200 x 245  
Fax: 617.262.4021  
meberle@forsyth.org