Simplifying licensed resource access through shibboleth

Abstract

Holly Eggleston provided an overview of electronic resources. She enumerated the advantages of e-resources and talked about some of the challenges in managing access to e-resources. Using several scenarios, she illustrated access problems and possible solutions. The solutions included traditional proxy, rewrite proxy, client virtual private network (VPN), and Shibboleth. She then described Shibboleth, the Library/Shibboleth project, and the U.S. Higher Education/Research federation called InCommon. © The North American Serials Interest Group, Inc.