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OpenAthens Healthcare Federation: what it means for you
Some months ago an overseas Identity Provider approached Eduserv asking to join the OpenAthens Federation. My initial answer was “By all means! If you implement our hosted Identity Provider service,...
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Over the last few years, the open source software package Shibboleth has been adopted by access management federations worldwide for single sign-on. But healthcare organisations and communities are...
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Local ‘Raptor’ Authentication
Following months of hard work by the team at Cardiff University, it was great to see the launch of Raptor, a software suite for managing authentication information, primarily designed to help...
View ArticleCounting the cost of open source
Open source software can be very flexible and often has powerful features. Best of all, it’s free; free to own, free to modify to get it to work just how you want it to – so a bargain when compared...
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OpenAthens across the globe
After 28 hours of plane travel, 3 continents, 10 hotel nights, and 1 stolen mobile phone, I’ve recently returned home from INFO, Tel Aviv and MLA, Seattle. INFO ’12 Firstly, for those of you who don’t...
View ArticleWho’s driving usability in Identity & Access Management?
A good colleague of mine likened usability to getting into a car and finding the indicator stalk on the wrong side of the steering wheel; to having the brake pedal to the immediate left of the...
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What goes around, comes around
A brief history of copying Once upon a time, we had manuscripts and these were copied by hand. Then in the 18th Century James Watt started reproducing documents by means of a copying press. Then...
View ArticleOpenAthens: a worldwide service
Academic institutions in the UK have been using OpenAthens since 1994 to enable staff, students and researchers to get easy access to internal and external online resources that the institutions have...
View ArticleOpenAthens – myth busters!
Sometimes we hear a few misconceptions about our OpenAthens service. This makes us sad, because despite the complex technology that sits behind it, we try to make the benefits clear and easy for...
View ArticleOpenAthens – just the right medicine at SLA?
In April this year I made a mad dash to attend the Special Libraries Association’s Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Technology Division’s spring meeting in Philadelphia alongside ComaxSys, one of our...
View ArticleF is for federation
Over the past six months or so the F-word has been in every sentence around here as the OpenAthens service extends to incorporate federated access. So what does this mean and are there any differences...
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