InCommon Library Services

As some of you probably know, for the last 15 months the Shib team has 
been working with the european higher ed Shib federations. Right now, 
Shib federations are either in production or in test in every western 
european country, from scandanavia to  spain, from greece to the UK. 
Interestingly, in most of these countries, information resources are 
licensed at the national level. In this country, as we all know, most 
licenses are signed by campuses, or by geographically-based consortia. 
Consequently, the europeans have been able to make the business case to 
the info vendors that they should Shib-enable their services. The 
federations developed a prioritized list of vendors, and then began 
approaching them as a group. Here's the "top 20" from their list, along 
with the status of each vendor:

http://stc.cis.brown.edu/~stc/Projects/Projects-using-Shib/License_Group/Vendor-status.html

We've  been asked to NOT make some of this information public; please 
use user/demo to obtain access. I'd ask you to respect the vendor's 
wishes, and not  share this information outside your institutions.

I should note that OCLC FirstSearch is also Shib-enabled (but OCLC 
didn't  appear on the euro's list...).

Most of this activity occurred below the radar screen for US sites.

Let me know if you have any questions.