UPDATE: Since I published this blog post, I realized that in fact only Baruch students and faculty can access ebooks from Books24x7. Both the links in the catalog and OneSearch to titles from Books24x7 and the link to Books24x7 on the A-Z databases page all require getting past our remote access login page (even when you are here on campus). This means that there is no way for visitors to access titles from Books24x7.
Below you’ll see the original blog post I wrote (I’ve since crossed out the text). I’m sorry for the confusion.
If someone from another CUNY college has a made a special trip to Baruch just to access an ebook from Books24x7, please make sure that they use the Books24x7 link on the A-Z databases page to get to that ebook instead of using a link to the ebook found in OneSearch or the library catalog.
If that visitor to our library tries to go to a Books24x7 title from a link found in a record in OneSearch or Books24x7, they will get the remote access login page even here on campus (and this page is, of course, something that visitors here have no way to get past). A few years ago, Books24x7 changed some technical settings on their end that required us to set up catalog and OneSearch access in this nutty way.
This odd access set up–the remote access login from catalog and OneSearch links even here on campus–is unique to Books24x7 titles; you won’t see it happen with ebooks from Ebrary, EBSCO, MyiLibrary, etc.