Sally

In brief, I believe we are able to provide you with a solution that
meets your requirements.  We have been able to adapt Athens to meet
similar needs of other organisations.  For example we have a single
password sign-on gateway which has been implemented specifically for the
NHS-NET user community and another variation of this approach which has
been running very successfully at an Australian University for over 2
years.  This gateway was specifically implemented to enable all their
overseas students to access both on-site and off-site (e.g publisher
hosted) subscription services.

We are also developing a portal version of the Athens technology that
will allow single sign-on in a portal environment.  This will be
available later this year.

If you would like to explore this further then feel free to contact me
directly or the DSP (Data Service Provider) team at [log in to unmask]

Regards,
Ed Zedlewski

EduServ - home of CHEST, NISS and Athens
PO Box 2674, Bath, BA2 7XY, UK
+44 (0)1225 826035, fax +44 (0)1225 826177
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Sally Chambers wrote:
 >
 > ****Apologies for cross-posting****
 >
 > Dear Colleagues,
 >
 > At the University of London Library we are developing a Virtual
 > Library Service to provide library support for the University of
 > London External Programme's Distance Learning students.  As a central
 > service of the Virtual Library, we will be offering remote access to
 > various electronic datasets. We are currently investigating the
 > possibility of using a proxy server to authenticate our resources by
 > IP address so that the student will not need to remember / login in
 > with several usernames / passwords.  This is particularly an issue for
 > those resources that can not be authenticated via ATHENS.
 >
 > I am aware of the survey that was carried out between November 16th
 > and 1st December 2000 by Peter Murray from University of Conneticut
 > Law School on the use of web proxy servers in libraries:
 > http://www.pandc.org/proxy/survey/  However, I understand that most of
 > the respondents were from non-UK-based institutions.  I am interested
 > in how institutions in the UK (particularly HE academic libraries) are
 > working with these issues.  I am particularly interested in those that
 > are using IP authentication via a proxy server.
 >
 > Specific issues of interest include:
 >
 > *Which proxy packages are you using? e.g. EZ Proxy, Innovative
 > Interfaces' Web Access Management; Squid, Apache, Microsoft Proxy,
 > Netscape Proxy etc.
 >
 > *Ease of use e.g. User browser reconfiguration, Firewalls preventing
 > access etc.
 >
 > *Dataset Vendors allowing / not allowing IP authentication via a
 > proxy.
 >
 > I would be very grateful for any information, and will of course
 > summarise any responses to the list.
 >
 > Thank you very much for your help in anticipation
 >
 > Sally Chambers
 > Electronic Library Project Officer
 > University of London Library
 > Senate House
 > Malet Street
 > London,  WC1E 7HU
 >
 > Telephone (020) 7862 8482
 > Email [log in to unmask]

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