Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has partnered with the identity and access management specialists LibLynx to develop their new Emerald Insight digital research platform. LibLynx will be powering authentication and identity management across a broad range of use cases as well as providing COUNTER-compliant reporting.
Emerald’s overriding goal was to make discovery easier and more enjoyable and they recognised that the broad range of authentication technologies and business models they needed to support, covering both paid and open access content, had a major impact on ease of access. Emerald wanted a unifying solution that could simplify their architecture while still delivering the flexibility needed to optimise for usability.
Emerald also needed a usage reporting solution that was compliant with the latest COUNTER reporting code of practice, Release 5, and easily integrated into their new platform.
LibLynx’s authentication API provides Emerald with a standardised method for confirming a user’s identity and/or institutional affiliation that is independent of customer type, platform technology, and the authentication methods required. A suite of supporting tools make it easy for Emerald’s existing customer and rights management systems to seamlessly integrate into LibLynx, allowing for high levels of automation and simplifying customer support workflows.
LibLynx’s plug and play COUNTER widget enables Emerald to easily embed on-demand and real-time COUNTER-compliant reporting into the new platform, giving customers the flexibility to view reports online, download files, or automate ingestion via a SUSHI feed.
The new Emerald Insight digital research platform replaces an existing site hosted on Atypon’s Literatum platform. LibLynx began working on the implementation in late 2017, working closely with Emerald’s project team and their software development partners, 67 Bricks. Migration to the new platform will happen by July 2019.
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