A decade after the UK Access Management Federation was launched, Jisc will now be piloting the option of a self-service portal, for all service providers, schools, further, and higher education, which will also be free to use. The portal will allow system administrators to make changes behind the scenes without needing to contact the helpdesk. The helpdesk will remain a firm feature of the service however, for customers wanting a bit of extra assistance.
The UK Access Management Federation was born in 2006. Currently, it is the largest of its kind in the world and amongst commercial service providers too. Now, ten years on, with over 1000 organisations to its name, the federation is celebrating a decade of success.
Operated by Jisc, the sector’s support organisation for digital solutions, the federation enables staff, students, researchers and school children to access online resources and services using their institutions' credentials. When users request access, a service or resource, their home institution authenticates them, and in doing so confirms their identity so that they can access the resource.
86% of colleges, 99% of higher education institutes as well as research bodies, publishers and schools have access to the Access Management Federation, saving money and allowing for collaboration through ease of access. Alongside the portal, service developments are taking place that focus on the methods of distributing metadata to reduce system requirements for education providers running their own systems.
Alongside supporting administrators to make changes to the system themselves, Jisc is also rolling out the service beyond academia, with a pilot in English public libraries, giving seamless access to top quality learning resources fit for a digital generation.
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