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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">We’ve been using EZproxy for about 25 years. We are currently using the OCLC hosted product, though we used to run it locally until about 13 years ago. We’ve been
a WMS library for the last 11 years, and prior to that we were an Innovative Interfaces library for 25 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Our Electronic Resources and Metadata Librarian, Daniel Fitzroy, and I did deep dive into available authentication methods a little over four years ago. We’ve been
monitoring it closely since. We have no plans to move away from Hosted EZproxy. And we recently started a subscription to their Analytics product.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">I am a member of our intercollegiate Identity and Access Management Information Technology Operation Committee. In the Library we take advantage of EZproxy’s Groups
directive to limit access to certain resources. We’re hoping to release more authentication attributes from our new Entra central tenant so that we may more finely identify usage by user type. This would also allow us to utilize the Groups directive to better
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">We’re looking to eventually turn off IP access, except for the proxy server of course. We need to push as much of the use as possible through the proxy server.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 14, 2026 10:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list <eril-l@lists.eril-l.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] Authentication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 1:28<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>PM Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list via Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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