<div dir="ltr">Our library is also looking at the possibility of switching to OpenAthens from EzProxy.<div><br></div><div>I think the big unknown for myself and others at our institution is the privacy piece. What are the implications of being able to authenticate with a specific person (email address) rather than a general IP range?</div><div><br></div><div>I guess I don't really understand yet where this data is being stored, for how long etc. If anyone has specifics about this, I'd be happy to hear more.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Trisha </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Hinchliffe, Lisa W <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ljanicke@illinois.edu" target="_blank">ljanicke@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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is one) - <a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/01/16/what-will-you-do-when-they-come-for-your-proxy-server-ra21/" target="_blank">https://scholarlykitchen.<wbr>sspnet.org/2018/01/16/what-<wbr>will-you-do-when-they-come-<wbr>for-your-proxy-server-ra21/</a>). <br>
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I am very interested in others' replies to this, as I really want to switch and am working to make the case for OA despite the extra cost - we don't have it yet.</div>
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I am going to share with all of you here my own analysis here at UPEI, but feel free to pick it apart and tell me if I've misunderstood anything.</div>
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Check@UPEI is a reference to links to our openurl resolver, Moodle is our course management system, and there are a few other references to special UPEI-specific services.</div>
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We are a self-hosted ezproxy site, on the current version.</div>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://openathens.org/for-information-managers/" style="text-decoration:none" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://openathens.org/for-inf<wbr>ormation-managers/</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cost:
[negotiated individually, I can't share our quote, sorry]</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Benefits
of Open Athens over our current self-hosted ezproxy</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">User
Experience off-campus (which is the whole point of ezproxy, right?):</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Users
of major non-library-licensed search systems like PubMed and Google Scholar will not need to take lots of extra steps to be "within" our licenses. They just need to login to OA once per session, then any way they find themselves at any publisher site they'll
be pre-authenticated - no "check@UPEI" special settings, "otool" special links, etc.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Major
publisher sites will invite them to authenticate with OA if they get there directly without coming through our OA login link even the first time within their work session, and that will stick for the remaining OA sites. Andrew has confirmed that most of the
vendors on the </span><a href="https://www.openathens.net/resources.php?oaf" style="text-decoration:none" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">oa
federation list</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> will do
this, including: Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Sage, Oxford, Taylor&Francis, Cambridge, JSTOR, ACS, EBSCO, Proquest, and Ovid. The one notable exception that does not is Gale (but their content is not easily discoverable in Google/ Scholar or elsewhere anyway);
note that if they have a token already from one of them, they won't need to reauthenticate with the others during that session</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OA
will work even when our entire campus network is done (and the proxy server is unreachable) for those sites with direct OA login; we can have pre-configured emergency username/password "local" accounts that we can give out during total network outages if OA
can't even reach our ldap/shibb system; I have done this just for EBSCO a few times, when needed but this would work for ALL of our licensed IP-authenticated resources, not just EBSCO</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ezproxy:
Faculty who try to make their own links to our resources in Moodle or elsewhere and students discover right at their deadline that they don't work because they lack the prefix</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ezproxy:
Library staff have to work harder every time they make one-off links when helping patrons
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ezproxy:
Staff maintenance of individual site "stanzas" </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hosted
solution superior to internal server for the following reasons:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">care
and maintenance including security responsibility for the hardware, OS platform</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">maintenance/upgrades
of the service itself (the ezproxy software)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">connections
to the various vendors/publishers always up to date, we don't need to figure them out and keep changing them as the vendors change their websites</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">maintaining
our local copy of the "blacklist" is extra work</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">removes
risk of error in configuration blocks - ezproxy requires manually editing a plain text config file in which a simple typo could cause interruption of service - OA web-based config interface makes adding/removing service providers a matter of gui selection;</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">greatly
simplifies management of local accounts (eg IB students, alumni premiere accounts, emergency accounts) - provides simple web-based gui with granular permissions, so this could be entirely handled by a technician, for instance, not using up Peter's time to
maintain/update</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Less
traffic and likely slightly better performance during normal network conditions as users won't have all of their authenticated traffic bouncing through our campus network/proxy server but will go directly from publisher/vendor site to their own device - note
a tradeoff of reliability of our campus network+proxy server in exchange for the reliability of the OA server [question about what OA does if it can't reach our ldap/shib/AD server]</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OpenAthens
features that Ezproxy can't offer:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Security/Compromised
account issues:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sophisticated
algorithms for detecting illegal/abusive use suggesting compromised accounts - very likely to do a much better job than we do of catching problems before our publishers notice anything</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Immediate
shutdown of individual compromised accounts prevents publisher from having to shut down the entire UPEI institutional account until the single patron's account problem is resolved</span></p>
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provide analysis for us of which patron account, what the geographic or other suspicious conditions were, saving us time of having to trace the activity through the multiple logs within ezproxy to piece the "story" together</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">User
Experience with vendor platforms:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">all
of our major platforms will allow immediate access to the personalization features (aka "My Research/My Ebscohost") without having to create separate accounts on each platform. Note that this includes RefWorks (checking on implication for WnC)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">User
Experience for our "special" accounts:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">no
special URLs, will be able to use exactly the same links as everyone else</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">easier
maintenance of the accounts themselves will mean faster service for these patrons</span></p>
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Reporting - far more detailed than we can get now, depending on how we configure things with ITSS, we could finally get info about which departments' users are using which resources, which would give us leverage for negotiating more favorable pricing for some
subject-specialty databases (we did that with one product but getting the data from ezproxy was a nightmare) as well as providing important data for subject librarians to better focus instruction/dept outreach. We might well be able to afford more specialty
products if we had the ability to restrict specific products to specific user groups and promise the publisher that control during price negotiation.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello All,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m considering switching to OpenAthens for authentication rather than staying with EZproxy. Has anyone made that switch? I have a couple of reasons for thinking about switching. The version of EZproxy that my IT department currently hosts
is no longer supported, and they don’t want to host an updated version of EZproxy. (I would be switching to hosted EZproxy instead.) It seems to me that although OpenAthens is more expensive, I wouldn’t have to involve IT as much, and I could get out-of-the-box
statistics that lets me know who is logging in and to what resources. (It would make it easier to know what to cut if needed.)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Most of the resources my library subscribes to are “big deal” collections rather than titles accessed from publisher websites. I’ve looked on some listservs and seen that some libraries use
<i>both</i> EZproxy and OpenAthens, but I can’t afford to do that. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any advice you have for me would be greatly appreciated!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Amy L. Hwang, MLS | Director of Library Services | Nease Library, Eastern Nazarene College | 23 E. Elm Ave., Quincy, MA 02170 | 617-745-3854
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