Some users of Business & Society Online may find a consistency and reliability advantage in using a special private route to access the site. Business & Society Online has made arrangements with a provider which offers an alternate network route through a global network serving 105 cities in 47 countries, encompassing the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Rim. If you are experiencing trouble connecting to Business & Society Online please try the alternate route instead to see if it provides you with better service.
To use the alternate route, go to
http://intl-bas.sagepub.com/
NOTE: If you go to http://intl-bas.sagepub.com/ and notice that it changes to http://bas.sagepub.com/ that means
our system has
automatically detected that you are using a very-high-speed research-network
connection between Stanford University (where the Business & Society Online server is located) and
your organization. This network is called "Internet2" (or "Abilene"). Our server
automatically uses that very-high-speed path instead of http://intl-bas.sagepub.com/.
What is http://intl-bas.sagepub.com/ ? Using this URL should make inconsistent
web service good and consistent. It will not make already good and consistent web
service necessarily any better.
Tips to Improve Speed:
- Look first at Abstracts, which usually arrive in
about 1/10th the time of a full article, if you are not certain
you want to see a full article. You can do this by clicking on
the [Abstract]
link in a table of contents or in a search result.
- Increase the size of the cache that your browser uses to save items
that it has already seen. This will avoid returning to the server
to get a symbol or a button that has already been seen before.
You can change this in "Preferences/Advanced/Cache--Disk Cache".
- Change the "Page in cache..." (Mac) or "Document in cache..."
(Windows) radio button in "Preferences/Advanced/Cache"
to "Once per session". This will ensure a minimum number of
inquiries to the server.
- Upgrade to the latest version of your browser. Each new version appears to
have noticeable speed improvements, perhaps on the order of 20%.
How to make sure you have the most current version of your web browser
