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JISC Collections Who are my users? Or? These are my users! Mark Williams
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Who are my users?
Or?
These are my users! Mark Williams
JISC Collections
JISC Collections
Background
Currently managing over 130 agreements including -
– UK National Academic Archive
• Over 20 archives licensed in perpetuity and available freely to all UK HE, FE and
Research Councils
– NESLi2
• 40 agreements for e-journals
• JISC Collections Over 90 agreements for online databases, reference materials,
multimedia resources and e-book collections
• Working at all academic levels and with all subject areas
• Managing over 7,000 subscriptions
• Additional authorised user initiative
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IdM & the egg
Licence governs who (role) can access a resource
IdM governs what role an individual is
Access management gives us (or will give us) the tools to express that.
This is IdP centric (institutions) but SP will play a role as they consume our (OUR)
definitions
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jisc-content.ac.uk
Free…but…..
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“Need a licence that will include FE
students on course validated by us.[…]
It would be better if we could have better
licences that have perhaps bands of extra
charges for any additional users and then
we could decide to pay or not.”
“We validate foundation degrees in FE
colleges. We do not buy any specific
resources for them but they are our
students with network login, email, VLE
access and full borrowing rights plus of
course full access to all our e-resources. I
do not consider licensing an issue for
them”
Two institutions, using the same
terminology, defining it differently, with
very different results…
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BCE a complicated theatre
Oakleigh Report in Extending Access Management into BCE
– Scoping study Nov 2009
– Looked at rationale / case for extending AIM into BCE
– Recommendations for next activity
Determined:
– No standardisation in how BCE groups get access to resources, ad hoc case
by case basis
– Demand increasing
– Barriers: Institutions need to be SPs, cultural, organisational, licensing
constraints, lack of clarity about what BCE groups should access
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Relevant Recommendations:
– Explore potential & options of using Federation for access for external
users
– Take more holistic approach & responsibility for IAM – & share good
practice
– Help facilitate institutions’ development of IAM solutions for external
user groups
Recommendations
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Access management can help with the implementation of extended access
But
Institutions will first need to deal with:
communication and licensing issues surrounding the electronic resources they
manage
And IdM
So…….
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Develop problem based diagnostic tool .
– Aims to help librarians determine how to provide access for users
which fall outside the definition of authorised user within the model
licence.
– In some cases these users will be deemed students of a
university and therefore entitled to access
– in other situations it may be necessary to sign an additional
Authorised User Licence.
Forthcoming BCEproject.
Map the two together = An answer (but not necessarily a solution - the
licence still needs to do that)
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