InC-Lib-Vendor

[La Vonne Gallo <>]

Hello Foster, et. al. 

I will forward your message to an appropriate individual at
HighWire.  My role and function are limited to providing online
technical assistance to end users. 

Kind regards,
La Vonne Gallo 

At 12:43 PM 2/15/2010 -0500, Foster Zhang wrote:
> Dear La Vonne Gallo,
> I am writing you on behalf of Johns Hopkins University and the other
> universities listed at the end of this email.  We are all committed
> to the concept of federated identity management and federated access to
> licensed resources.  Hence, we have implemented (or are
> implementing) the Shibboleth technology at our respective institutions
> (which have all also joined the InCommon federation).
> We have noticed that you have implemented Shibboleth/SAML within your
> product line (including Sage Publications and other online journals you
> support and host,) and are using the technology to provide federated
> access to your services within the UK Access Management Federation. 
> We, collectively, would like to invite you to also join the InCommon
> federation so that we, as well, will be able to federate with you. 
> You provide valuable services to our user communities, and we would like
> to begin integrating those services with the single sign on
> infrastructures we have invested in at our respective institutions.
> Johns Hopkins University would like to be your sponsor for membership
> into InCommon and help facilitate the process.  We can provide
> guidance in terms of federation policies and best practices.  We
> also have  a willing group of universities that should be able to
> help with testing and implementation, and we can help coordinate that as
> well.
> If you are interested, we can set up a conference call to discuss some of
> the details and initiate the process.
> Thank you,
> Foster Zhang, Johns Hopkins University
>  
> Ken Varnum, University of Michigan
> David Kennedy, Duke University
> Andy Ingham, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> Adam Chandler, Cornell University
> John Ober, California Digital Library
> Ken Varnum, University of Michigan
> John Kiser, University of Pennsylvania
> Joan Parker, Cal State, Moss Landing Marine Labs
> Curtis Carr, Virginia Tech
> Paul Soderdahl, University of Iowa
> Tod Olson, University of Chicago
> Thomas Howell, Northwestern University
> Anne Nolan, Brown University
> Julia Kochi, University of California, San Francisco
> Theodora Toy, University of California, Riverside 
> Emily Lin, Jim Dooley, University of California, Merced
>  
> From: La Vonne Gallo
> [] 
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 18:55
> To: Foster Zhang
> Cc: ; Foster Zhang
> Subject: Re: allow shibboleth sessioninitiator access (SAGEPUB
> Feedback Form)
>  
> Hello Foster, 
>
> Thank you very much for writing.  HighWire only has support for the
> UK Access Management Federation for Shibboleth authentication at this
> time.  We will keep your request and your details on file for the
> time when we add support for additional federations.
>
> Kind regards,
> La Vonne Gallo 
>
>
> At 06:39 AM 6/5/2009 -0700, Foster Zhang wrote:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Comments sent via SAGE JOURNALS ONLINE Feedback Page
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>   NAME: Foster Zhang
>   EMAIL:  
>   IP ADDRESS: 128.220.8.110
>   HOSTNAME:  128.220.8.110
>   PREVIOUS PAGE: 
>
> http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/shibboleth?entityid=urn:mace:incommon:johnshopkins.edu&target=http://ach.sagepub.com
>  
>   BROWSER:  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US)
> AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.30 Safari/530.5
>   PROMOTIONAL USE:  Granted 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> COMMENTS:
> can you add US Higher Education/Johns Hopkins to the 
> list of allowed institutes using shibboleth for 
> authentication?
> Johns Hopkins is member of incommon and is willing to 
> be the test site for such implementation in us.
>
> we currently enabled shib sessioninitiator with Jstor, 
> Ebscohost, and is working with Elsevier for 
> ScienceDirect, and scopus.
>
> Idp:
> https://shibboleth.johnshopkins.edu/shibboleth-idp/SSO?
> entityid=urn:mace:incommon:johnshopkins.edu
>
> thank you
> Foster Zhang
> Library technology integration lead
> Johns Hopkins
>
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> La Vonne Gallo 
> HighWire Press 
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