Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it has expanded its Shibboleth compliance for OvidSP, its market-leading search and discovery platform, to include the Japanese Shibboleth Federation. Now, institutions in Japan that are part of that country’s Shibboleth Federation can establish authorisation rights for end users allowing for secure, single sign-on access to important resources on OvidSP.
Currently, Ovid is Shibboleth-compliant with the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research, as well as with federations in France and Germany. Ovid continues to work with other countries to support their authentication needs by establishing Shibboleth compliance.
Content vendors use a variety of authentication mechanisms to manage access to their products. The security vulnerabilities and variety of these mechanisms make it challenging for a library portal to provide uniform and reliable access to the library's electronic subscriptions. Various institutions can join together in a Shibboleth federation, enabling users to get easy single sign-on access to content resources at institutions within the federation.
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