In order to contain costs and comply with licensing agreements, the Library must promise that access to the content is tightly controlled, which usually means only to current Cornell students, faculty or staff members.
See also
- http://www.it.cornell.edu/cms/services/netid/leave.cfm
- Services retained by having a sponsored NetID, and services you still lose
- https://www.library.cornell.edu/help#restricted-resources
- Alumni only: https://alumni.library.cornell.edu/resources
If a sponsored NetID gets created or reactivated (yearly, say), this is in and of itself insufficient to secure library resources for that Sponsored NetID.
Usually it is not appropriate to extend access to the Library's licensed resources to folks who have a Sponsored NetID. In the rare cases it is required, it is possible to confer continued Cornell Library access to someone who leaves, per the Library:
- https://www.library.cornell.edu/help#restricted-resources
- Library's cited page above states, "Due to our contractual agreement with the vendors, we cannot allow for remote access for those who are not currently Cornell students, faculty or staff members." (validated 4/20/2017).
Notes:
- A NetID is required so the Library's system can know who you are, but any specific sponsored NetID needs to be authorized by the library to access licensed content from that NetID.
- To do this, the PI's group must coordinate their sponsored researcher's library needs with the Library access folks. PI's and/or end users should contact libpublicservices@cornell.edu with an explanation of the need and a length of time the need exists.