InC-Lib-Vendor

[David Kennedy <>]

Kent,

Thank you for sharing the link on compliant
publishers maintained by the UK Access Management Federation.  There
are a few links on our wiki to similar lists with different federations
(although they don't all still work) https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/inclibrary/Information+about+Potential+Sponsored+Partners.
 I'd like to draw attention to the first link on this page, to a registry
maintained by the UK Access Management Federation.  I hope that our
group could create a framework for maintaining something similar to this
registry for InCommon.

I think we also need to be clear on
what we consider 'compliance'.  We did work in phase I of this working
group to integrate ezproxy and shibboleth in order to provide seamless
access to resource providers.  But that integration requires that
the resource providers enable SessionInitiators.  Many (and probably
most) of the resource providers, that are Shibboleth-enabled and considered
compliant on these other lists, do not enable SessionInitiators.

With regards to prioritizing a top 10
list, I am open to suggestions as to how to round this out and prioritize.
 6 people from the larger group responded to the call a few weeks
ago and listed some of their top vendors on the wiki.  I know that
this is a small number of respondents, so their priorities may not be representative.
 However, I pulled out 10 resources that were listed more than once
across the 6 respondents:
EBSCO, Proquest, OCLC (FirstSearch?),
LexisNexis, Elsevier, JSTOR, Springer, Thomson, Wilson and Oxford University
Press

I don't know if this is the right list,
but I am bouncing it off of someone who manages the resource providers
for a large consortium.  Is this a good starting point?  In comparing
this list with the UK registry mentioned above, at least 7 of the 10 are
listed in the registry, a good start.

Dave

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David Kennedy
Systems Programmer
Perkins Library, Duke University
(919) 613-6831

"Kent Percival" <>

04/20/2009 04:22 PM

To	"inc-lib-vendor" <>
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Subject	List of UK Publishers doing Shibboleth

This subgroup is looking at
1.     Develop a prioritized
list of information providers (e.g. JSTOR, Science Direct, etc) that the
group would like to have support Shibboleth-enabled access. 
2.     Determine which vendors
already support Shibboleth. Identify the top priorities for making the
business case to support Shibboleth. 
3.     Include information
about which vendors are already associated with InCommon.
The list of IPs the group would
like was already started in the Top 10 list on the Wiki – a good start.
 How do we round out and prioritize the list?
The UK Access Management Federation
has been pushing vendors to become compliant.  See http://access.jiscinvolve.org/federated-access-and-publishers/
 This site contains useful listings of compliant publishers, including
ones that are live, ones that are planning, and some at risk (not interested?)
ones. 
Perhaps we should review the list
of publishers that are compliant now or intend to by this summer to see
how this stacks up against the ones the group wants.  The process
might be as easy as getting them to join InCommon (or in my case, the Canadian
Access Federation!)
 
....Kent
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