I can't speak for the rest of the publishing world, but we have no intention
of turning off anyone's Athens access. OpenAthens SP enables us to support
Athens, Shibboleth and other authentication methods as customer needs
dictate.
Tom
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Tom Pollard
Commercial Director
Mark Allen Group
St Judešs Church
Dulwich Road
London SE24 0PB
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7501 6707
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On 11/03/2010 13:28, "Richardson Andy (RDE) Colchester Hospital Uni NHS
Foundation Tr" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Not that I know much about Creative Club, but does this mean that
> because lots of you guys in the academic world have IT departments
> capable of going Shib (ie you've got an accurate user database file and
> IT departments with the time to sort it) those of us who don't have
> accurate user databases (such as the NHS) without a core IT team will
> have publishers turning off their Athens access. We have well over a
> quarter of a million people who rely on publishers enabling their
> resources through Athens. Already we are hearing rumours of major
> suppliers to the NHS saying they will not be enabling their resources
> through Athens authentication. This is extremely worrying.
>
> Andy
>
>
> Andy Richardson MCLIP
> Health Specialist Librarian
> Multi Professional Resource Centre
> Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
> tel: 01206745982
> email: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information
> Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mitchell
> Dunkley
> Sent: 11 March 2010 10:49
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] FW: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] Creative Club - Athens
>
> I have received the following response from Laura Watts at Billetts
> Media Monitoring regarding access to the Creative Club resource:
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> To Creative Club Subscribers,
>
> I am your account manager for Creative Club. Thank you for getting in
> touch about the Athens log in.
>
> We had the understanding that all JISC suppliers were to move to
> Shibboleth access and the institutions were to access Creative Club via
> Shibboleth rather than Athens for the 2010 subscription. For this reason
> we cancelled the Athens log in.
>
> As there seems to be an issue with institutions subscribing to
> Shibboleth we will re-instate the Athens log in access for all users
> until a time when everyone has Shibboleth access.
>
> Could you please post an email for me on the JISC mailing lists to say
> that Athens Log In will be re-instated?
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Laura
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> De Montfort University uses OpenAthens as its Shibboleth identity
> provider, so I am still unsure of if Athens authentication will be
> accepted by Creative Club in the long term. I have replied to Laura with
> my concerns.
>
> If individual institutions need to contact Billetts regarding this
> problem, you can contact Laura Watts by email at the following address -
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Thanks
>
> Mitchell Dunkley
> Kimberlin Library, De Montfort University
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information
> Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul
> Stainthorp
> Sent: 10 March 2010 15:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] Creative Club - Athens
>
> Hello,
>
> Wondering: does anyone have any details about changes to the
> authentication options for Creative Club (www.creativeclub.co.uk) ?
>
> Athens option has disappeared (I can't find any notification of this,
> but it's quite possible I have misfiled it!) and our access was
> interrupted.
>
> Could I ask any C.C. subscribers:
>
> *Is your (Athens?) access to Creative Club working?
> *If you've moved to Shibboleth login option - have you managed to create
> a WAYFless URL ?
> *Does anyone have any documentation/notification about the change /
> removal of Athens access that they'd be willing to share?
>
> With very many thanks,
>
> Paul
>
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