SCURL Walk in Access Project

SLIC AGM and IDF Showcase 2nd November 2011

SCURL Walk-In Access to E-resources

Project supported courtesy of the SLIC Innovation and Development Fund

2011


Project Description

• To investigate technical & operational solutions to enable HE Institutions provide access to electronic resources by external users where “walk-in” licences permit

• To deliver a toolkit identifying good practice

• To build on the outcomes of previous UK projects e.g. HAERVI


The SCURL WIA Team

• Eddie Alaszewski. E-services Librarian, Robert Gordon University Library• Sally Clegg, Glasgow Life• Jason Cormie, Technical Architect IT, St Andrews University• Paul Cunnea, Digital Collections Manager, National Library of Scotland• Mark Glancy, Library Operations Manager, National Museums Scotland Library• Ross Hayworth, Serials & Electronic Resources Manager, University of Aberdeen• William Nixon, Digital Library Development Manager, University of Glasgow Library• Alistair Young, Senior Software Engineer, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, UHI.


Activities to Investigate

• Definition of walk-in user

• Identity management of user

• Provision of access

• Licence

• Members’ institutions WIA programme


Definition of Walk-In

• Physically on site in the institution’s premises

• Is user able to access the security gate after core staffed hours?

• Is user able to obtain paper documentation & agree to signing the T&C’s of the licence?


Access Restricted to Physical Library

• Use is restricted to the physical premises

• only for the duration the user is within the physical premises

• the user must possess a valid library card


Access content off-campus

• UHI partner institutions physically located across islands and mainland Scotland

• Learners are located at a geographical distance from the institution


Identity Management of Users

Category of Potential Users

• Honorary

• Associated

• Alumni

• Retired staff

• Minors such as schoolchildren

• Citizens of a nation


Provision of Access

• Mixed economy of Shibboleth and EZproxy

• Shibboleth requires users to be authenticated to the institution

http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/


IT Solutions

• Visitor wifi network outwith the IP range: would offer limited short-term access

• Provide a special identity for minors: this would influence the proxy giving access to a specific suite of resources

• Mixed economy of FE and HE: resources are IP driven so users access a different tranche of content


Licence

Terms & Conditions of Licences

WIA acceptable from the licensee’s premises

WIA from the Library’s premises

WIA not documented in licence

Licence stipulates content is restricted to institution’s members


SCURL Institutions: Case Studies• University of Aberdeen: 20 IP

authenticated resources to e-journal collections, dbs and digital archives accessed through 4 dedicated PC’s.

• Available 09:00 to 21:00 for one hour slots

• Library staff log users on and logout is either manual or automatic following a countdown

• Download to a USB stick within T&Cs of licence and copyright law


National Museums Scotland• External readers are

prompted for a username and password if click on an external link on the OPAC

• Reader is invited to register and are given a login for 30 days

• Swets identified 54 e-journals in NMS collection offering WIA

http://www.nms.ac.uk/default.aspx


Robert Gordon University Library• Navitas college users do not

meet T&C’s of many of the licences

• Therefore RGU is not obliged to provide unrestricted access to e-resources

• Solution: Resources allowing WIA: obtained individual user names & passwords which user must access to log in to resources

• Overcome IP authentication by using an IP range that the SPs are not aware of and it thus appears as off-campus

Georgina Scott Sutherland Library


Sharing Best Practice

• Liaison

• SCONUL Task and Finish Group on Access Issues – WATER

• WHELF – Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum

• SWRLS – South West Regional Libraries System

• JISC Collections

http://www.swrls.org.uk/index.asp


The (Imminent) Future

• SCONUL Shared Services Project of

ERM Knowledge Base+

JISC Collections

SCURL SHEDL

http://sconulerm.jiscinvolve.org/wp/

The Partners



http://www.sconul.ac.uk/

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/


Our Project Aim

• Unlimited and unrestricted access for users within Copyright and also within the Terms and Conditions of the Licence – by 2012.


Acknowledgments

• SLIC IDF

• SCURL colleagues

• Other consortia in the UK

• The SCURL Walk-In Access Task & Finish Group

• Images courtesy of Chris Banks and also the UHI.


Thank-you!

Jill Evans

SCURL Service Development Manager

[email protected]

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SCURL Walk in Access Project

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