<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi, I'm working with Proquest support on this but so far we're confused and I'm hoping someone else ran into this and found a solution.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">This would only apply if you have Proquest Ebook Central configured to use their Single SignOn service. That enables users on campus to get from our ezproxy server (without being bothered to login) a hashed identity code so they can use all of the interface features of someone with an account in the platform, without actually making one and revealing their identity.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">What Proquest apparently does is talk to our proxy server, even when the link is not proxied and the user is on campus, to get that hashed identity code. The user is not prompted for a username/password in this, so I'm not sure how ezproxy could even be doing this.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We're finding that multiple users are getting the same hashed identity. The way this showed up is when one staff member used up most of the allocation of pages that could be downloaded, and another staff member on a different computer accessed the same book, they saw the allocation already used up. They brought it to me, where I verified on my own computer in three different web browsers the same problem. You can see the problem by looking in settings-profile and note the same hashed-garbage username in all of the affected sessions throughout all those different computers and browsers.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Have any of you seen this before and if so, did you find a solution short of abandoning the SSO service from Proquest?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> 902-566-0581</div><div>my <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mbelvadi%40upei.ca&ctz=America/Halifax&mode=week" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">public calendar</a></div><div><a href="https://mbelvadi.youcanbook.me/" target="_blank">Make an appointment</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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