Over across the pond they use OpenAthens:
http://www.openathens.net/
I used that when I studied at the University of Lancaster ages ago now.
It works using SAML 2.0, which allows for cross-domain single signon. I
don't know that I could tell you the nitty gritty details of how it
works under the hood, but it basically allows people to use their
university credentials to authenticate to sites that the university has
licensed.
EBSCO has been pushing it in North America lately -- I don't know if
they just bought it or if they have some kind of partnership. I don't
have any experience running it from the library's end, so I can't really
testify as to its performance.
Will Martin
On 2017-08-09 14:44, Pennington, Buddy D. wrote:
Do vendors even directly support SSO? We use SSO to enable users to
authenticate into EZProxy for IP-based access to our electronic
resources. I didn't think cutting out EZProxy and just going with SSO
was an option.
Buddy Pennington
Director of Information Technology and Strategy
University of Missouri--Kansas City
Miller Nichols Library
800 East 51st St.
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499
[email protected]
816-235-1548
UMKC Libraries
-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Jimmy Ghaphery
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 2:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Wanted: Good overview article comparing new
authentication/access control options (Shibboleth, OpenAthens, SAML,
etc.)?
I'll second Bethany's point on many smaller vendors just now moving to
IP authentication. If it consoles campus IT tell them they are
right....it has been at least 10 years since I have been hearing that
proxy servers are a thing of the past, but that the working normal
across most libraries is IP/proxy authentication.
Best,
Jimmy
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Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communications and
Publishing VCU Libraries
804-827-3551
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On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Goodwin, Bethany <[email protected]>
wrote:
I'd be interested in hearing any feedback as well. Some of my vendors
are smaller and we're lucky to have IP authentication with ezproxy.
Bethany
Bethany Goodwin
Electronic Resources Librarian
Rolfing Memorial Library | Trinity International University
2065 Half Day Road, Deerfield, IL 60015 [email protected] |
847-317-4006
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Cynthia Harper <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi - Can anyone provide some good documents on current trends in
> alternatives to proxy servers? My campus is looking into Single Sign-On
> for the first time, and the campus technical people believe that
> proxy servers are a thing of the past, but I don't know whether all
> of our vendors will be able to support an alternative method.
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Cindy
>
