Shibboleth at LSE

LSE Library

Shibbolisation progress at the LSE Library

1. Situation at July 2006
2. Situation at September 2008
3. Situation at September 2009 (coming soon)

More information on shibbolising e-resources for the LSE Library

1) Situation at July 2006

Figures are percentages for each access type against the total (see Table below) protected e-resources at LSE Library. Not all types are mutually exclusive, and there is a two- or three-way overlap for some resources.

'Shibbolised' means the resource was directly Shibbolised by the service provider (publisher, distributor or aggregator) and available from the UK Access Management Federation.

'Gateway' means that the resource was listed on Eduserv's list of Athens Gateway Compliant resources, whether or not it had been tested at the LSE Library.

'EZproxy' means that the resource could be accessed using the EZproxy system employed for some resources at the LSE Library.

'Non-Gateway, etc.' means either that the resource was listed on Eduserv's list of resources that were Not Gateway Compliant (but still accessible via 'classic Athens' - known as OpenAthens post July 2008), or that it was not known to be accessible using Shibboleth, Athens Gateway or EZproxy, and required some other type of access control.

Table of Available Access Types for E-Resources Used at LSE Library in 2006

For progress with particular e-resources used in the LSE's Electronic Library at July 2006, please see this Table of the status of the Shibboleth and Gateway-compliant e-resources .

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2) Situation at September 2008

Figures are percentages for each access type against the total (see Table below) protected e-resources at LSE Library. Not all types are mutually exclusive, and there is a two- or three-way overlap for some resources. Also, some large databases contain smaller databases or data sets within them, making the total number difficult to calculate.

'Shibboleth' means that the resource can be accessed via Shibboleth and is available from the UK Access Management Federation.

'EZproxy' means that the resource can be accessed using the Shibboleth implementation of the EZproxy system employed for some resources at the LSE Library. This means that as far as users are concerned, they are accessing the majority of Library e-resources using the same access method - their institutional username & password .

'Other' means that the resource is not currently accessible using Shibboleth, or EZproxy, and requires some other type of access control, e.g. an individual username and password.