Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, has announced that it is developing the RSC Publishing Platform to work with Shibboleth institutions all over the world. With this move, the publisher seeks to provide customers and users more access to high impact scientific content.
Already compliant with UK Access Management Federation, RSC Publishing is now meeting the requirements of the Japanese Federation GakuNin for their Shibboleth compliance. GakuNin member institutions can now access content they subscribe to with their GakuNin username and password whether on or off campus.
Shibboleth offers federated identity-based authentication and authorisation which allows one security domain to be shared with the users of that federation, enabling members to have single sign on and removing the need for multiple usernames and passwords. It is a well used project all over the world with academic institutions.
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