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OpenAthens LA 2.0 implementation
Matt Durant
Outline
• Bath Spa University• Why single sign-on?
– Improving the user experience
• The project / decision making• Installation• Live demo of 2.1• Questions
Bath Spa University
• Approx 7,500 full time students• Additional students from
partner colleges• OpenAthens / IP authentication
to resources• 59 Electronic resources
(databases/ e-journal access)• Small Library team
Why change?
• Staff / Student drive for standardised access to University services.
• Remove the amount of time spent administering Athens accounts, permission sets etc.
• Increase the usage of our electronic services.
‘OpenAthens MD’
Academic search premier
ScienceDirect
JSTOR
Education Image Gallery
GEOBASE
Electronic Resources “Athens?”
Has to set-up an account & remember details
Can’t understand why other services won’t work
Will not use our resources if log-in forgotten
Set-up self-reg accounts
Maintain the database of students
Manage permissions
If Athens fails, our resources do too!
Central Bath, UK
Single sign-on
Academic search premier
ScienceDirect
JSTOR
Education Image Gallery
Education Image Gallery
GEOBASE
Electronic Resources
Active directory database
OpenAthens LA 2.0
Students only have to remember their Bath Spa username/ password
Administration is taken out of our hands – students have an account the moment they register
If the system fails we contact the IT dept to fix it! Centralised.
Inevitable increase of electronic resources usage
Library WebPages
Attributes
Project Shibboleth
• Set-up February 2009• Discussing the possible
transition from OpenAthens to Shibboleth
• However…– February 2009: title changed to
‘single sign-on’ after Eduserv workshop
Decision making• Computing not comfortable with
‘open source’ software• Shibboleth – research & a lot of
project time• Eduserv - support & product updates• LA 2.0 – easy interface for
configuration• No additional cost to our
subscription.• Statistics in 2.1
Installation• Quick install (one afternoon)• Server team applies updates• Virtualised Red Hat servers for run time
console & admin console• Registered with Federation• Problems:
– What shall we name our installation?– Forgot to set-up NTP– Attribute authority
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