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Slide 2 OhioNET EZProxy Service Understanding Integrating Employing Slide 3 Stakeholders Vendors (EBSCO, etc) Limit access to subscribers Slide 4 Stakeholders Institutions Limit access to institutional boundaries Slide 5 Stakeholders Faculty and Students Easily access services within these boundaries Slide 6 Problem: Making limits easy Solution: remove login constraints for customer campus networks ID campus by its IP number range Register this information with the vendor Automatically log in all customers from that range 167.30.250.0 to 167.30.250.254 = Slide 7 New Problem: Off-Campus Users Off-campus users use networks that cannot be registered with the vendor Slide 8 Solution: re-route the user Proxy IP address is registered with the vendor User is routed through the proxy = Slide 9 EZProxy: How it works Authenticates user We use the catalog as an ID database Connects to resource User talks only to it (looks like a website) Vendor talks only to it (looks like a browser) Im EBSCO Im Mt Union Slide 10 How it works: on the users side URL rewriting Translates URL so that user goes only to proxy Slide 11 How it works: requirements Users browser must accept cookies EZProxy must be configured properly for the vendors website Thats it! Of course browser must also have whatever the resource requires (Javascript, etc) Slide 12 How it works: adding a new resource 1.Tell the vendor your proxy IP 2.Contact opalhelp with resource title and URL to be added to the proxy 3.opalhelp will send back a link 4.Test proxy from off-campus 5.If it fails, report to opalhelp for further configuration 6.Success? Put link into your links page Slide 13 How it works: providing access Host links yourself Full control over look and organization of links page Link text provided by opalhelp http://www.muskingum.edu/home/library/find/datab ases.html Host links on proxy server OhioNET provides a simple menu page with links Some basic decoration is possible Login necessary to see provided resources https://login.cc.opal-libraries.org/login Slide 14 How it works: management Provide some communications channel for off- campus users on your proxy/links pages Report connectivity problems to opalhelp Vendors sometimes forget IP addresses Relay messages about changing vendor domains, URLs, etc, to opalhelp Slide 15 OhioNET proxy features OhioLINK via OhioNET Just one login for all your resources Register your campus IP range with us for pass-through Just one link for both on and off-campus users Distinguish users by ptype, status Offer certain resources only to certain ptypes Statistics provided on demand via web Slide 16 More features Alternative authentication Other data sources: email servers, Shibboleth, LDAP, Windows Active Directory, CAS, others SSL encryption on logins (standard for OPAL) Abuse detection and response Limits set on download rate Limits set on number of simultaneous sessions per login Abused logins can be identified, disabled Slide 17 Questions? Ask now Ask later: opalhelp@ohionet.orgopalhelp@ohionet.org Alternatively Ask the list: ezproxy-request@ls.suny.edu (Subscribe without quotes in the body)ezproxy-request@ls.suny.edu Ask the list archives (agonizingly slow): ls.suny.edu/read/?forum=ezproxy ls.suny.edu/read/?forum=ezproxy Slide 18 Preloaded Questions Do we need to make a list of databases if we decide to proxy OLINK? Yes, Title and URL, each on its own line or its own column in Excel, please. As URLs change, who maintains them? We will make the changes. It is a good idea to send us a heads-up, however. Do proxy URLs work in the catalog? Yes. The proxy URL is easy to build and can be used like any other URL.