[Eril-l] Alumni Authentication

[Diane Westerfield]

Hi,

We are still on Millennium and still on WAM proxy though we’re working on moving to EZProxy. We also have 4 e-resources that allow free remote access to alumni (Sage journals, Project Muse journals, Vault career database, John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory).

Students who graduate from our college are no longer in the Circulation system (their patron records are deleted). However, if alumni come back they can establish an alumni patron record which allows a few privileges like limited book checkout. They can also remotely access the 4 e-resources listed above, but no other subscription resources. I believe there is a patron type table, or an associated table, where this can be set up so that all alumni patrons get this limited access.

I assume this works similarly in EZProxy, but we’ll see!

Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian
Tutt Library, Colorado College
diane.westerfield at coloradocollege.edu<mailto:diane.westerfield at coloradocollege.edu>
(719) 389-6661




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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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