Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, US, has announced Single Sign-On (SSO) access control for the Serials Solutions 360 Search federated search service. The SSO authentication capability ensures that librarians can serve their remote users with the same level of consideration and access as they do local users.
Many subscription resources now are protected using Athens or Shibboleth authentication methods and 360 Search is compatible with both. Once SSO is activated in 360 Search, library users will only have to authenticate once per browsing session and will be able to easily move between the 360 Search interface and native resource interfaces without re-entering login information.
In a recent implementation at the London School of Economics, 360 Search was configured as a Shibboleth-protected service, enabling the library to prompt users to enter their SSO login in order to access the service. The Single Sign-On capability in 360 Search enables institutions to offer electronic resources to all of their users with confidence.
