Service Providers within the UK Access Management Federation

Joint Information Systems Committee 04/09/23 | | Slide 1

Service Provider Update

The International Market


The International scene

Federations in operation:

– Finland, France, Norway, Switzerland, UK, USA

Federations in development or testing:

– Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden

All except Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Spain are Shibboleth-technology enabled (these interoperate with Shib).

Service Providers are currently required to join each International federation because of licensing laws and current set-up.

Models being explored to move away from this model, but many complexities.


The International Publisher Approach

National federations identify priority list of publishers

Identify decision-makers (business and technical)

Arrange meetings with publishers and representatives from other federations

Follow-up with further information & assistance

Meet with publishers at key events eg. UKSG

In the pipeline:

– Study on common policy or agreement to make it easier for publishers who wish to sign up to multiple federations

– Publisher survey to establish if and when publishers will join the UK federation


The top-twenty list!

Elsevier Science Direct

EBSCO

JSTOR

OVID (OvidWeb and WebSPIRS)

ISI

Springer

CSA

Exlibris- Metalib

EZProxy

Thomson ISI products

WileyTaylor and Francis Thomson Gale BlackwellInstitute of Physics PublishingThomson ScientificAPAProquestExlibris-SFXMuse


SEAS Initiative


Service Provider Update

The UK federation: The picture so far …


Primary Focus

LICENSED, SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES

TYPICALLY THIRD-PARTY ‘LIBRARY’ SERVICE PROVIDERS

JISC NATIONAL LICENSE DEAL: NESLI2

"Authorised Users“ means individuals who are authorised by the Licensee to access the Licensee’s information services whether on-site or off-site via Secure Authentication and who are affiliated to the Licensee as a current student (undergraduates and postgraduates), member of staff (whether on a permanent or temporary basis) or contractor of the Licensee. Persons who are not a current student, member of staff or a contractor of the Licensee, but who are permitted to access the Licensee’s information services from computer terminals within the physical premises of the Licensee ["Walk-In Users"] are also deemed to be Authorised Users, only for the time they are within the physical premises of the Licensee. Walk-In Users may not be given means to access the Licensed Material when they are not within the physical premises of the Licensee.

OTHER DEALS DIRECT WITH INSTITUTION FOR E-JOURNALS, OR VIA JISC COLLECTIONS FOR E-BOOKS, BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES ETC. ETC.


Demand from institutions (single sign-on, better security, personalisation)

Licence agreement requires membership of the UK federation.

JISC-funding of Athens ends July 2008

Costs - joining the federation and using open source software free at point of use (no tie-in to one provider)

Technology based on open standards - International support (economies of scale) and Interoperable with other systems

Why publishers are joining the UK federation


Publishers with a national licence agreement

All publishers with JISC or Nesli2 licence agreement have been contacted, of which 7 are members (Backpages, Capacity Builder, e-lawstudent.com, EBSCO, Ovid, Scran, Elsevier ScienceDirect)

Positive meetings with top 20 publishers – most working to a Summer 2008 switchover.

9 smaller publishers (mostly UK based) have indicated they will join the UK Federation.


Publishers with no national licence agreement

8 early adopters provided information about which publishers don’t have a national licence agreement

Westlaw (Thomson’s Sweet & Maxwell) and Lexis Nexis appeared on most lists – JISC trying to arrange meetings with Westlaw and Lexis Nexis to open up discussions

Large number of smaller, niche publishers – JISC working with Librarians to assist with take-up, particularly those that are non-gateway compliant


JISC-funded services

JISC encouraging all JISC-funded services to join the UK federation

JISC survey of JISC-funded services in early Summer 2007

Possible issues:

– Joining via a legal entity

– Identifying and commissioning an outsourced IdP as many will be classified as identity ‘orphans’


Other Service Providers

Include providers of collaborative and learning environment software and tools, blogs and wikis

Already adopting the new technology and are therefore the final group of service providers we plan to work with


Beyond Licensed Materials

WHAT SHOULD BE SERVED VIA THE FEDERATION?

RESOURCE TYPE FEDERATED APPROACH

THIRD PARTY, LICENSED RESOURCES

SERVED VIA FEDERATION. LEGAL FRAMEWORK REQUIRED TO PROTECT THE TERMS OF LICENSES AND PROVIDE SECURITY OF MANAGED TRUST.

LICENSE / SUBSCRIPTION FREE RESOURCES

POLICY-LITE VIA THE FEDERATION SUBSUMING PUBLISHED METADATA FROM SP? (TESTING WITH SHIBBOLETH WIKI).

BI-LATERALS?

CONFEDERATION?

COLLABORATIVE RESOURCES (VLES ETC.)

(SEE EXAMPLE)

CURRENTLY MANAGED ONLY VIA BI-LATERALS.

INCLUDE IN UK FEDERATION?

WHAT DOES THE CENTRAL FRAMEWORK OFFER?

INTERNAL RESOURCES

NO REQUIREMENT FOR CENTRAL FEDERATION??




Some questions

What are your main issues regarding publishers?

If you are a service provider – do you have any issues?

What can JISC do to help?


Resources and support

Website information:

www.jisc.ac.uk/federation and www.ukfederation.org.uk

Publisher and Service Provider briefing paper

Federated Access Management Animation

Application process map for joining the UK federation

In the pipeline: podcast interview with publisher & publisher case study

Email lists:

[email protected]; [email protected]; ‘shib-enable-vendor’ list (contact Jane Charlton for more information).

Publisher and service provider contact:

Jane Charlton, Access Management Outreach Co-ordinator, JISC ([email protected])


Thank you for listening

Nicole Harris, Senior Services Transition Manager, JISC

[email protected]

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Service Providers within the UK Access Management Federation