The joy of e-resource authentication (warning: may contain sarcasm,...
(Alternative title: why I’m going bald.) Managing the authentication of university students and staff to electronic library resources is an awful, awful pain and I wish it would all just disappear....
View ArticleE-resource URL hacking for fun and profit: how to build direct, reliable...
I’ve got a bee in my bonnet about electronic resources which make it difficult or impossible to create reliable deep-ish links to a particular bit of the resource from Library websites (usually our...
View ArticleEZproxy crib sheet for Library staff
Recently Elif and I gave a workshop for our e-Library Services colleagues on EZproxy: what it is, how it works, and how we’re using it at Lincoln. Here are our workshop notes. EZproxy is e-resource...
View ArticleWAYFless than perfect: getting started with OpenAthens LA and the UK Access...
Our priorities for the move to OpenAthens LA are to (i) identify those e-resources where federated login is the only option for access (i.e. no IP authentication/EZproxy), (ii) create WAYFless login...
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