Shibboleth and Library Resources
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Shibboleth and Library Resources
Internet2 Library/Shibboleth Project
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What is the Library/Shibboleth Project?
• Established 2007
• Five universities + Internet2
• Campus IT, Library IT, Librarians
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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
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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
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Electronic resource challenges
• Remote access is problematic
• Maintaining IPs is time consuming and unreliable
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Focus of Library/Shibboleth
• Access control and licensed electronic resources
• Identify user scenarios
• Document business practice and technology issues
• Test solutions
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Technologies
• Shibboleth
• EZproxy
• mod_auth_location
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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
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Shibboleth’s benefits
• Single sign on
• E-resource personalization
• Usage statistics
• Reduction in trouble tickets
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What is EZproxy?
• Server side proxy (URL rewriting)
• Proxy access for off-campus resources
• Inexpensive
• Library-focused
• SSO authentication
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EZproxy’s benefits
• On/off campus consistency
• Persistent URL
• Hybrid solution
• Single place where you point your URLs!
• Simple URL creation
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What is mod_auth_location?
• Apache module
• Guest authentication by location (IP)
• Used in conjunction with Shib
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mod_auth_location’s benefits
• Local IP management
• Walk in user
limitations
• Override “guest” access
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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More information
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/InCCollaborate/Library+Pilot