Hi Masha,
We're grappling with exactly the same questions here at Cardiff and are using TRLs.
Our discoveries so far indicate that you can do journal level linking via the Gateway so long as
the DSP supports it. The down side to that of course is having to find what the syntax should be and
then test it with all your DSPs.
We have only just started looking at this, but I can tell you Ovid support is as I've been testing
it with them. Here's an example of the syntax for the Journal of Cell Biology on Ovid via our IdP
and the Federation gateway:
https://idp.cardiff.ac.uk/shibboleth-idp/SSO?providerId=https%3A%2F%2Fsh
ibboleth.ovid.com%2Fentity&shire=https%3A%2F%2Fshibboleth.ovid.com%2FShi
bboleth.sso%2FSAML%2FPOST&target=https%3A%2F%2Fshibboleth.ovid.com%2Fsec
ure%3FT%3DJS%26NEWS%3DN%26PAGE%3Dtoc%26SEARCH%3D00004639%2D000000000%2D0
0000%2Ekc%26LINKTYPE%3DasBody%26LINKPOS%3D1%26D%3Dovft
You can do the same type of linking with Ovid via the Shibb Athens gateway too:
http://auth.athensams.net/?ath_dspid=ATHENS&ath_action=shaauth&id=https:
//idp.cardiff.ac.uk/shibboleth&ath_returl=http://auth.athensams.net/trl/
1.0/-/OVID_ONLINE%3FT%3DJS%26NEWS%3DN%26PAGE%3Dtoc%26SEARCH%3D00004639-0
00000000-00000.kc%26LINKTYPE%3DasBody%26LINKPOS%3D1%26D%3Dovft
If you're familiar with Ovid at all you'll see it's the same "jumpstart" syntax they use for a
classic Athens login, but with the Shibb gateway stuff on the front. For completeness here's the
classic Athens version of the above:
http://gateway.ovid.com/athens/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=N&PAGE=toc&SEARCH=00004639-000000000-00000.kc&LINKTYPE=asBody&LINKPOS=1&D=ovft
Sorry I've only got examples for this one DSP so far. Another 100 and something to go...
We also use Serials Solutions, but haven't worked out what we're going to do about that yet. Ditto,
walk-in users.
Would be happy to share more with you, and vice-versa, when we have it.
Regards,
Sue
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>>> Masha Garibyan <[log in to unmask]> 03/07/2007 20:59:22 >>>
Dear all,
I wonder if those of you who are already using the Federation gateways to
provide Shib access to e-resources, would mind sharing your experiences
with the London School of Economics.
LSE was one of the first institutions to start testing the Gateways. When
we started testing our Gateway-compliant resources, it appeared that a
persistent cookie was set when a user accessed a Gateway resource, so that
if the user then went to access a non-gateway compliant resource, he would
still be directed to the Gateway WAYF, not Classic Athens. Because some
key LSE resources were non-gateway compliant (e.g. Westlaw), that wasn't
an option for us. Eventually Eduserv suggested using TRLs (their
persistent URLs) to overcome the problem. There are two types of TRLs that
can be used - one for gateway compliant resources (sets a single session
cookie) and one for non-compliant (doesn't set the cookie). This solved
the 'cookie' issue but created a new one in that TRLs can only be used for
top-level URLs (eg a database homepage), and not individual journals, and
LSE provides access to both.
My questions are:
1) Have you used/ are you using TRLs?
2) If you have to provide Gateway access at journal title level, how do
you do that (LSE uses Serials Solutions to provide access to individual
journals, so any examples of Gateway use with SS would be particularly
welcome!)
3) If you provide access for walk-in users, how do you display resource
links for users (ie separate them from the 'shib'/gateway links).
Many thanks in advance,
Masha Garibyan
LSE Library Projects Team
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