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Use Cases and Technology Recommendations What: Libraries face special situations in making online resources available. Some resources, such as the catalog, may be open to all who enter the building. Other resources, such as specialized databases, may be open to anyone physically in the library, as well as to those with university credentials regardless of their physical location. Add to this the desire for campus-wide single sign-on, remote access for those with university credentials, and providing a positive experience for walk-in public users; and the situation becomes complex. Who: Several libraries formed the InCommon-Library collaboration to explore various potential solutions. The consensus was a hybrid technology, using EZProxy (for remote user authentication) and Shibboleth for single sign-on convenience and federated access to external resources. See the Phase 1 Phase IIn phase I, the collaboration studied the issues involved in Shibbolizing library access pertaining to various user groups, including students, faculty and staff, and walk-in library users; as well as methods for providing remote access for users with university credentials. Also studied was a combination of Shibboleth and EZProxy. EZProxy can use Shibboleth for initial user authentication, providing a single login for both remote access and campus resources, as well as a seamless user experience when transitioning individual resource access from IP to Shibboleth. See the Phase I page for use cases and presentations and other information. Phase I included six institutions: Cornell University, Penn State, UC-San Diego, The University of Chicago, University of Maryland, and the University of Washington. IIPhase II of the collaboration will involve IdPs that are implementing Shibboleth and/or the Shibboleth/EZProxy combination for access to protectd library resources. What is Shibboleth?For an overview of Shibboleth Single Sign-on and Federating Software, follow this link to the Shibboleth website. |