Hi Nicole,
I have now received a reply from the ACS and they've told me I can do this myself (lucky me!) by logging into the ACS Admin Area, clicking on Access Rights and I will then see the Window to add the URL to Shibboleth authentication. I have now done this and everything is working fine. The list of institutions detailed at: http://pubs.acs.org/action/ssostart has grown since yesterday.
Does this mean that I can (have to) do this for all other Atypon-hosted systems which have this option in their Admin Area?
It's a pity that Atypon doesn't have a centralised system for doing this in one place rather than having to go to each individual (and the number is growing all the time) Atypon site. I guess they think us "librarians" haven't got enough work to do!
Now onto the rest of the Atypon sites where we have journal access!
One has to say there is always so much to learn (and work to do) in the world of e-resources.
Cheers
Lesley
Lesley Crawshaw
Knowledge & Business Intelligence Consultant
Information Hertfordshire
University of Hertfordshire
Tel: 01707 285508
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Subject: Re: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] American Chemical Society New Platform Doesn't Support ATHENS
Hi Lesley
Just to add to what Mark says, all you need to do is contact ACS and ask
to be added to their publisher WAYF, which is here:
http://pubs.acs.org/action/ssostart, citing your entity ID which is
|https://idp.herts.ac.uk/shibboleth for the University of Hertfordshire.
ACS are wrong to have used the word 'shibboleth login' instead of the
recommend home institution / organisation as the word 'shibboleth' is
entirely misleading, and we have contacted them about this. Even if a
publisher drops the Athens login box from their site, athens users will
be able to access via the federated route.
I'm afraid we will see more and more publishers choosing to drop the
'Athens' link from their home pages due to the costs of maintaining
this, so it is essential that we hassle them to get their terminology
right!
Hope that helps
Nicole
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Mark Williams (JISC) wrote:
> Hi all,
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> If a Service provider has made content available through the UK federation, then Open Athens institutions who are members of the UK Federation will be able to access the content.
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> I think the problem here is that the term Shibboleth has become synonymous with the Federation, when actually Service Providers mean providing access via the federation (meaning shibboleth and Open Athens users).
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Crawshaw, Lesley A
> Sent: 17 March 2010 12:20
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> Subject: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] American Chemical Society New Platform Doesn't Support ATHENS
>
> Hi,
>
> Following on from the discussion about problems with ATHENS access to Creative Club I thought I'd raise a related issue of another publisher, ACS, which only provides Shibboleth and IP access on its new platform.
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> I did raise the issue of when access to ATHENS was going to be available on the new ACS platform through NESLi2 at the end of 2009 and was told that they had bypassed ATHENS and gone straight to Shibboleth compliancy. I did question this as we are not currently using Shibboleth (and I know we aren't the only institution in this position) and was told that ACS wouldn't be implementing ATHENS as they saw this as becoming obsolete.
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> I have to say I wasn't happy with this response as other new platforms e.g. Informa Healthcare have recently become compliant with ATHENS (and presumably Shibboleth).
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> If IHC can provide access through ATHENS, why can't the ACS? Surely the ACS should be trying to meet the needs of all its customers, not just those who have already moved to Shibboleth.
>
> I just wondered whether others are in the same position.
>
> Cheers
> Lesley
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> Lesley Crawshaw
> Knowledge & Business Intelligence Consultant
> Information Hertfordshire
> University of Hertfordshire
> Tel: 01707 285508
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