Hi Heather
 
We've moved from Athens to Shibboleth authentication for eBrary access - on Shibb v1.n.
 
With the help of eBrary support we had a test account set up on their Shib test SP, and - when all went well - agreed the time to move across to live. No particularly challenging hoops along the way...
 
eBrary made an announcement last week about supporting more than one preferred method of authentication, but we're happy to stick with Shibb for all customers.
 
The links in our 30k catalogue records are all now resolve correctly to the Shibb login without any changes being required.
 
The single biggest headache is the migration of existing Athens PUID based 'Bookshelf' content to a Shibb attribute. eBrary do not provide any batch process for migration, so it's based on individual customer request ("Please migrate my Bookshelf...") for which users get how-to instructions through a link in an updated eBrary customised banner. 
 
Our early experience with this latter process has thrown up some issues (some students and staff have struggled to put together the two identifier values that they need to send to eBrary in the correct way) and I'm considering routing the email requests through our support team for clean-up before they are sent on the eBrary support.
 
Regards  
 
Richard Cross
eServices Manager (Resource Discovery)
032 Dryden Centre
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham
NG1 4BU
t: +44(0)115 848 4878
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From: Discussion list for Shibboleth developments on behalf of Heather Peake
Sent: Mon 07/09/2009 10:15
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Subject: ebrary -anyone using it?



Hello
has anyone got shibboleth working with 'ebrary'? If so are you on version
1.3 or version 2 of shibboleth?
Did you have any special hoops to jump through?
Any advice you can offer?
Thanks




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