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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi Dom, We explored the OpenAthens option but have no plans to do so at this time. I don’t think we will ever be able to truly move totally to Shibboleth. We
are in the process of upgrading our EZProxy and moving its authentication to use CAS at the same time. Currently, we control our OpenURL linking through our link resolver – and most vendors have an administrator module where you can set this up. – Best, Jean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dominic Benson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 3, 2017 10:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'eril-l' <eril-l@lists.eril-l.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] Switching from EZ proxy to Shibboleth/Open Athens/SAML Where do I begin?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi Jean,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We protect our EZproxy instance with our Shibboleth IdP as part of our integrated SSO environment. This gives us the benefit of integration at the article level
via our OpenURL provider since we configure EZproxy as the authentication method, and an alternative route via Shibboleth at the publishers’ end for our millennial crowd whose default starting point off campus is Google, etc, (>60%) not our managed links.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We are quite a long way off getting direct linking for the whole of our discovery layer. If you move to OpenAthens, how will you manage article-level OpenURL linking?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> Eril-l [<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org">mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sibley, Jean J<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 November 2017 12:32<br>
<b>To:</b> Steve Oberg; eril-l<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] Switching from EZ proxy to Shibboleth/Open Athens/SAML Where do I begin?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi Steve, We have a hybrid situation and still have many resources that go through EZProxy. Our reason to switch was mainly due to a directive from “above” and
because of some problematic databases for which EZProxy was not the best solution. We are still running an older version of EZProxy which has been especially difficult when many of our vendor sites are going to https.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">With the increase in remote users I think more libraries are moving towards this type of authentication. There are advantages to it including increased security
and usability. With a small staff it is not easy to be proactive and make sure all of the database stanzas are up-to-date. I don’t believe it costs any more. If you are talking about staff time – it would actually be less maintenance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Best, Jean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Eril-l [<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org">mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Oberg<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 2, 2017 6:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] Switching from EZ proxy to Shibboleth/Open Athens/SAML Where do I begin?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m not sure what switching from EZproxy to Shibboleth really means, Jean…because as I understand it, many institutions run EZproxy and Shibboleth together just fine. We aren’t there yet but will be once Shibboleth is implemented by our
campus IT. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m quite happy with EZproxy overall, but of course, your mileage may vary. We have complete control over our local instances of EZproxy (we do not use the hosted setup), and have put in some minor effort to better anticipate, track, and
be notified whenever users encounter an EZproxy error. In these cases, we have set up automated methods to notify us by an email that creates a ticket in our helpdesk ticketing system. We have good local expertise in configuring and managing EZproxy and can
make changes any time so as to be responsive to issues that arise.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’ve considered OpenAthens but I just don’t see the added value at this stage, plus I see less local control and higher cost for the service. I may be missing something but that’s where we stand at this point.<o:p></o:p></p>
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+1 (630) 752-5852</span></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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