Hello Sarah,
I'm a member of the UK federation support team; I've just checked and
you definitely are not using OpenAthens with the Athens to Shibboleth
gateway. Your "old style" OpenAthens IdP that uses the Athens to
Shibboleth gateway was deleted from the federation at Bolton's request
in September, so you have not been using it since then, at least.
The University of Bolton IdP is the newer OpenAthens LA software, which
is hosted at Bolton, and does not use the Athens to Shibboleth gateway.
You seem to be saying that Bolton isn't in the ScienceDirect "WAYF" any
more. It's true that all those "old style" OpenAthens IdPs have indeed
fallen off the ScienceDirect list of federation organisations, but the
University of Bolton is still there.
What happens when you try to use it with ScienceDirect?
Regards,
Sara Hopkins
UK federation support team
On 03/12/2012 11:35, Taylor, Sarah wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Following the changes to authentication to ScienceDirect that took place
> over the weekend we find ourselves completely unable to access
> ScienceDirect off-campus, and it looks like we've been completely
> excised from the Eduserv OpenAthens list as well as the UK Fed list. We
> are using OpenAthens with the Athens to Shibboleth gateway, so it might
> be that this is not affecting everyone, but is anyone else having
> problems?
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> I've sent a message to Elsevier but the auto-reply I got suggested that
> they are having a large amount of messages to deal with and they may not
> be able to get back to me in the usual timeframe, which of course
> appears not to be detailed on the auto-reply...
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> Thanks.
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> Sarah
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> Sarah Taylor
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