Sage Support
Modified on Tue, 14 Oct at 2:36 PM
Google Chrome has introduced a security update to version #85 onwards, for more information please see Chrome Enterprise and Education release notes - Chrome browser - Chrome Enterprise and Education Help
This upgrade could have an impact on how your referral-based access method is behaving. Google Chrome now sets the referrer policy to "strict-origin-when-cross-origin" by default.
This means that if a website hasn't specifically set a referrer policy when a user clicks on a link from your member portal to your journal's content or homepage hosted on Sage Journals the browser only sends the domain of your site rather than the full URL, as it has been the case until now.
This will result in your members coming into Sage Journals unauthenticated and will therefore not have access to your journal(s).
Please send this link to your website administrator so the necessary changes can be made; A new default Referrer-Policy for Chrome.
For further assistance, please contact onlinesupport@sagepub.co.uk
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