Category Archives: identity management

NISO Announces New Work on Single Sign-On Authentication

April 30, 2009 – 8:17 am

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Baltimore, MD – April 29, 2009 – NISO is pleased to announce the approval by the NISO Voting Members of a new work item to focus on perfecting single-sign-on (SSO) authentication to achieve seamless item-level linking in a networked information environment. A new working group will be formed under the auspices of NISO’s Discovery to [...]

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Shibboleth access now available for Cambridge Journals Online

March 20, 2009 – 6:58 am

9 Mar 09: Cambridge University Press has announced that its first wave of Shibboleth compliance is now live.

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Oxford University Press is now Shibboleth-compliant

December 19, 2008 – 7:13 am

Oxford University Press is pleased to announce that from Monday 22 December its journals and many online products can now be accessed using Shibboleth by subscribing institutions who are members of the UK Access Management Federation.
Shibboleth is a system used by libraries to control access to online resources. Library users in institutions that use [...]

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Review of Open ID Final Report

December 10, 2008 – 8:48 am

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The primary aim of the project was to produce a report (this document) to allow decision-makers to understand OpenID’s security properties in order to perform risk assessment of their envisaged use cases and avoid any of OpenID’s potential security pitfalls. The project conducted a survey of computer centre managers and senior staff members to gain [...]

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