Hi All,

We're in the very early stages of exploring Alumni access to eResources. We've  moved to a new library system inm 2020 and it seems to be possible to continue library accounts as Alumni users post expiry and at this point use the LMS as the method of authentication in place of SAML to pass into our EZProxy service so the Alumni can have the resources they're allowed access to. The benefit of this being that there's no need to work out extended licensing of their university network account to allow the access.

Even in these early stages we've got a few questions and we're wondering if anyone has done something similar.

One of the slight sticking points we've come across is we'd be in theory extending library accounts infinitely for the users in order to give them the access. This doesn't seem quite right to us without some sort of incremental review of the data. If any institution has done something similar, do they do a sort of incremental review (e.g. 5 years) to see if users would want to opt out at a point? Or even shorter than that, are users asked yearly if they want to keep their accounts?

Any thoughts at all would be much appreciated!

Best wishes,

David

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