Hi Tom,
Steve Glover here from the UK federation support team.
> Since early April we've been unable to access our subscribed de Gruyter journal content from off-campus. If a user finds the article they want and tries to open the full-text PDF, a box pops up asking them to sign in, or pay, or connect via institution. They click ‘connect via institution’, select ‘Aberystwyth University’, click ‘go to login’, and then up pops the shibboleth box for them to enter their university username and password. So far so good – but then they get returned to the de Gruyter homepage. So then they have to search for the journal again and find the article. When they try to open the full text PDF, a box pops up asking them to sign in, or pay, or connect via institution. They click ‘connect via institution’…. well, you get the idea. Access from ON-campus works fine.
Unless there's been a change in your IdP's configuration, I suspect you
may not have been able to access the de Gruyter SP from off-campus even
before then, because as far as we know they have always required the
common-lib-terms eduPersonEntitlement:
http://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Services/2009-04-29-dGRG
(we have a collection of similar pages on the UK federation website,
linked from
http://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Documents/AvailableServices and
http://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Documents/AttributeUsage
where we publish WAYFless URL and attribute details as we receive them
from the SPs)
> I reported this to de Gruyter six weeks ago, but they don't seem to be tackling the problem with any great sense of urgency.
> Can I ask - is anybody else experiencing this, or are we alone?
We're in touch with de Gruyter, and have just heard from them that by
default they only authenticate by eduPersonEntitlement, although they
can authenticate against other attributes if this is communicated and
set up manually.
I think that the quickest way forward may be to ask your IdP team if
they can assert the appropriate value of eduPersonEntitlement for all
users who fall within the license terms.
Hoping this is useful.
Cheers
Steve
> Many thanks,
>
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> Tom Francis
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