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Shibboleth and Library Resources

Shibboleth and Library Resources. Internet2 Library/Shibboleth Project. What is the Library/Shibboleth Project?. Established 2007 Five universities + Internet2 Campus IT, Library IT, Librarians. Library concerns with Shibboleth enabled electronic resources. Communication with campus IT

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Shibboleth and Library Resources

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  1. Shibboleth and Library Resources Internet2 Library/Shibboleth Project

  2. What is the Library/Shibboleth Project? Established 2007 Five universities + Internet2 Campus IT, Library IT, Librarians

  3. Library concerns with Shibboleth enabled electronic resources • Communication with campus IT • Privacy • Privacy with individual vendors • Privacy across vendors • Session persistence • Walk-in users • Library patron database integration

  4. Electronic resources background Ten years of growth Prevalence of home computing Increase in distance education Convenience and user expectation Hundreds of vendors, thousands of resources Significant part of the library collection budget Access and use restrictions Substantial work to integrate this seamlessly

  5. Electronic resource challenges Remote access is problematic Maintaining IPs is time consuming and unreliable

  6. Focus of Library/Shibboleth • Access control and licensed electronic resources • Identify user scenarios • Document business practice and technology issues • Test solutions

  7. Technologies Shibboleth EZproxy mod_auth_location

  8. What is Shibboleth? • Open source standards-based web single sign-on package • Leverages local identity management system • Enables access to campus and external applications • Protects users’ privacy • Helps your service partners • Plays well with others

  9. Shibboleth’s benefits Single sign on E-resource personalization Usage statistics Reduction in trouble tickets

  10. What is EZproxy? • Server side proxy (URL rewriting) • Proxy access for off-campus resources • Inexpensive • Library-focused • SSO authentication

  11. EZproxy’s benefits On/off campus consistency Persistent URL Hybrid solution Single place where you point your URLs! Simple URL creation

  12. What is mod_auth_location? Apache module Guest authentication by location (IP) Used in conjunction with Shib

  13. mod_auth_location’s benefits Local IP management Walk in user limitations • Override “guest” access

  14. What are the benefits? Benefits to users • Single sign on • Personalization Benefits to librarians • Manage IP’s locally (mod_auth_location) • Support Benefit to library administration • Tracking of usage

  15. Maryland as Case Study Implemented Shibboleth 2005 Shibboleth enabled library services Metalib, Aleph, ILLiad, EZproxy, (SFX) SSO with electronic resources Persistent URLs though EZproxy Campus integration projects Blackboard, Portal

  16. What can you do? Get EZproxy! Implement Shibboleth locally Explore local issues and concerns with your library Pilot existing SSO vendors Discuss interest in SSO to commercial vendors

  17. Next steps – Library/Shibboleth Project Recommending best practices and solutions to common use cases Conducting pilots to validate approaches Encourage adoption of Shibboleth by US institutions and libraries Community information sharing

  18. Shibboleth-enabled information providers American Chemical Society Atlas (ILLiad/ARES) Atypon CSA EBSCO Elsevier Science Direct Ex Libris EZprozy JSTOR Literary Encyclopedia OCLC WorldCAT OVID/SilverPlatter Project MUSE Proquest Safari (underway) SCRAN Serials Solutions Springer Thomson Gale Thomson ISI (underway)

  19. More information https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/InCCollaborate/Library+Pilot davekenn@umd.edu

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