Project MUSE Access Available via Shibboleth
Project MUSE is pleased to announce that it now supports Shibboleth access to the
MUSE journal collections.
Shibboleth provides users the ease and convenience of single sign-on access to
online resources provided by their institution. The single sign-on method of
Shibboleth enables an authenticated user to access online resources both on-campus
and off-campus. For institutions, Shibboleth provides security and protects the
privacy of the user.
To enable Shibboleth access now for your institution, submit a request to MUSE
Customer Support and include your Shibboleth Identity Provider ID. In addition to
Shibboleth, MUSE offers libraries and institutions access to its online collections
via IP address, referring URL, and Athens. A subscribing library may request access
by any of the four methods when placing a subscription order or by sending a request
to Customer Support. Athens customers in the USA and UK can now move to OpenAthens
if they so desire. Existing Athens customers that have an Athens ID on file with
Project MUSE do *not* need to register that change with MUSE.
The Shibboleth login process for accessing MUSE full-text content is simple. On the
MUSE website, users click on the link to login and then select their institution
from the list of institutions registered to access MUSE through Shibboleth. Once the
user is authenticated through their institution, they have access to the full-text
articles. An institution registered to access MUSE through Shibboleth must belong to
a federation. Currently, MUSE supports two federations, InCommon (USA) and UK Access
Management Federation for Education and Research. Others may be added depending upon
interest from subscribing libraries.
Shibboleth is available only for institutional subscribers of MUSE and can be used
to access MUSE collections as well as single titles on the MUSE platform.
Currently, Shibboleth will only be supported on the MUSE U.S. server at
http://muse.jhu.edu. We hope to implement it on our mirror site at
http://muse.uq.edu.au in the near future.
MUSE is excited that Shibboleth access offers users at registered institutions the
ability to search MUSE from any location where they have internet access. Questions
about the MUSE implementation of Shibboleth, may be sent to MUSE Customer Support at
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Kathleen Obbagy
Library Outreach and Communications Specialist
Project MUSE
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http://muse.jhu.edu
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