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Hi Caroline + all,

The UKf is following up with Nexis. I suspect a little “re-education” may be in order as 1. Our (UK federation) servers have had excellent uptime. 2. Metadata distribution doesn’t quite work like that.

I’ll let you know how we get on, it’s certainly a worrying approach and at best based on misconceptions, and at worst, a little disingenuous….

Thanks

Mark

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Thanks Angus.

Apparently this has been implemented in Australia and New Zealand but they may not have the same regulations or be as cautious as we are in Europe.

This is the reasoning I received from Nexis:

“… Federate via a 3rd party like UKAMF introduced a bottleneck, if their service go down all our customers will lose access. LexisNexis is contracted to Customers to provide the service not the 3rd party, if the service go down for extended period, we don’t have much control over it and will be liable with out contractual agreement with the customer not the 3rd party.

All Australian and New Zealand universities were federated via AAF (Australian Access Federation) and Tuakiri respectively for their online resources but federated directly to LexisNexis for our legal resources. They have been on Lexis Advance since early 2016 without any major issues.”

I understand using third party authentication may put Nexis in an awkward position with commercial forms but we have always taken the view that it is our authentication and if service from that is interrupted, it is our ‘fault’ not the service provider.

I am waiting for a response from Nexis UK to see if they are remaining as members of the UKAMF.

All the best

Caroline

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From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Angus Sinclair
Sent: 15 July 2019 14:55
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Hi Caroline,

We also received this survey. I passed it to our IT department for assistance in completing it and was told the answers to some of the questions were sensitive and not necessarily something we should be passing to a 3rd party.

Glad we're not the only ones being cautious here.

Best,

Angus

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From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Checkley, Caroline R <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 15 July 2019 14:48
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Subject: [lis-e-resources] Nexis

Dear all

Has anyone been contacted by Nexis as part of their Nexis Product Upgrade | Authentication Survey?

We have and I thought it would just be a matter of confirming our Shibboleth IdP details (we have our own IdP rather than using OpenAthens) but now Nexis are requesting we hand over extra metadata i.e. name and e-mail as well as EPPN?

We’d rather not do this, so I was wondering if anyone else has been contacted regarding this?

Thanks.