Shibboleth & OpenAthens

[v.srinivasa rao]

Dear senior professionals,

Good Evening! Can you clarify what is Shibboleth and OpenAthens?

How to login into & manage these sources and what are the uses ?

[Nipul G. Shihora]

Dear Sir,

Most publishers use IP filtering as de facto standard for authenticating authorized users in subscribing institutions and providing access to e-resources to them. While IP-based access is most convenient, safe and hasel-free authentication mechanism for publishers as well as for subscribing institutions, it has its limitations. One of the most serious limitation of IP-filtered access to e-resources is that the users can access e-resources only when they are on the Institute campus. Ideally, an authorized user should be able to access e-resources irrespective of his / her physical location at any time as long as he has access to the Internet.

To more details: https://parichay.inflibnet.ac.in/index.php