[Eril-l] Alumni Authentication

[Pennington, Buddy D.]

It probably depends on what you use for authentication. We use EZproxy and I know you can create separate groups for that. We use Sierra so one way would be to create Sierra accounts for the alumni and then pass those through EZproxy for the selected databases.

We don’t use OpenAthens, but I believe you can do the same thing in OpenAthens. Create a group that includes alumni and then assign that group to the databases that they can access.

Buddy Pennington
Head of Library Systems & Technology (Librarian III)
Miller Nichols Library
University of Missouri--Kansas City

From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> On Behalf Of Bonnie Powers
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 7:53 AM
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Subject: [Eril-l] Alumni Authentication

Good morning-

We have identified four e-resources/databases that we can offer to alumni via remote access; however, we are having a difficult time figuring out how to authenticate these users. They no longer have their net id/password, which is what our current faculty and students use. They do retain their college-affiliated email addresses, which is what we are hoping to use. At least one of the vendors involved requires that alumni users be distinguished from our regular users.

For those of you who offer any off-campus alumni access to databases, how do you authenticate these users?

Thanks!
Bonnie


Bonnie Powers
Content Services Librarian
Shadek-Fackenthal Library
bonnie.powers at fandm.edu <mailto:bonnie.powers at fandm.edu>
717-358-3843

Franklin & Marshall College
P.O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604-30
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