HI Matthew
JISC Collections have written a briefing paper on this:
https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/News/Briefing-paper-on-partner-organisations/.
Basically, it quite simple. If you register them, they are authorised
users. If you don't they aren't. Unless you register all the students,
you'd need to negotiate with the publishers for the other resources.
Attributes are pretty irrelevant at that point. 'Register' can be
fairly liberally interpreted as I see it, but that is at the
institution's discretion. What the course wants to do is fairly
irrelevant at this point I'm afraid!
Once you've worked part1 out above, then for the registered student the
easiest thing to do is simply assert member@ for these students if you
can do so without messing up other systems. Many publishers handle
affiliate pretty badly so you will find yourself having to test and
contact to get it to work on a per publisher basis. I know other people
have done this so they might want to volunteer a hit list of publishers
that might cause problems. Another option might be just to give them the
scope of 'student' but not 'member' if you wish to restrict their status
but all this really depends how you are set up and how you are using
member in other scenarios outside of the library resources.
I'd avoid Entitlement as this wouldn't be appropriate unless you do go
down the route of negotiating special access for people that you decided
don't meet the definition of authorised user.
So 'registered' is your key term to work with to get to authorised user.
Everyone purposefully avoids defining 'registered' any further to avoid
backing themselves in to a corner.
I hope that helps
Nicole
On 26/09/2012 11:10, Matthew Slowe wrote:
> * * * Politics Beware * * *
>
> I've tried writing this email a few times and it's not going to sound good any
> way up so this is just a brain dump with a request for comment at the end.
>
> 1. I'm told that the current government are keen to have FE colleges teach more
> degree courses validated by Universities as it's, apparently, cheaper.
>
> 2. I'm also told the way our institution has decided to make this arrangement
> work is for a cohort of N students to be taught by the FE College but have X%
> of N be in our HESA stats and (100-X)% be in theirs.
>
> 3. It transpires that the FE Colleges require the use of our online service
> subscriptions (here be MONSTERS!) for reasons which it would be improper for me
> to go into here.
>
> This presents me, as the person implementing our Shibboleth IDP, with a
> problem:
>
> Let N = 1000 and X = 50%.
>
> So 500 new students will appear on our official numbers and 500 on the
> associated FE college. I'm working on the assumption that the first 500
> constitute "member" but the other 500 don't.
>
> Assuming the above is correct (and I'm happy to take discussion on that point),
> what could we possibly assert for the others? All I could come up with was
> "affiliate" as the technical recommendations document[1] says:
>
> §7.1.2.1 The value affiliate is defined as applying to those with whom
> the organisation has some dealings, but to whom no set of general membership
> privileges are extended.
>
> This would seem to apply. However we'd need to get all the relevant online
> services to agree to accept (for a fee?) the assertion of affiliate as
> "allowed".
>
> The other option that I can see is agreeing, either bilaterally with SPs or
> multilaterally via the Federation, to the use of an eduPersonEntitlement to
> assert access should be allowed (i.e. we've done some checking and think that
> this user is allowed under any specific terms agreed between the subscriber and
> the service).
>
> So many license things seem to be keyed off the HESA return that this can't be
> a good idea in the long run, can it?
>
>
> Is there precedent for any of this (the FE college students being shared
> between HESA numbers, having access to journals etc)?
>
> [1] http://www.ukfederation.org.uk/library/uploads/Documents/technical-recommendations-for-participants.pdf
>
> Thanks for getting this far and I hope it made sense!
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