Proxy Server Access.

Institutional licensees may wish to use a proxy server for multiple users throughout their office. A proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application) that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers.

A proxy server has a variety of potential purposes, including:

1 ) To keep machines behind it anonymous, mainly for security.

2 ) To speed up access to resources (using caching). Web proxies are commonly used to cache web pages from a web server.

3 ) To prevent downloading the same content multiple times (and save bandwidth).

4 ) To log / audit usage, e.g. to provide company employee Internet usage reporting.

5 ) To scan transmitted content for malware before delivery.

With U.S. Business Reporter, your company can use a proxy server with one IP address and allow all users on your network to gain access to our database. (Corporate users must log in through a username/password combination a well ).

Academic, public library, school, and statewide library users do not need user/passwords to access our database.