We also have both EBSCO and JSTOR, as well as others like Academic Search Premier. We also have a static IP address for our internet connection, and those services (and others like them) will typically white-list a static IP address, such that they don't require authentication for traffic that originates from your library. We use a software package called EZproxy ( https://www.oclc.org/ezproxy.en.html <https://www.oclc.org/ezproxy.en.html> ) to allow patrons to tunnel traffic through our campus, so that they can access these resources. If you don't have a static IP address of your own, you can get the EZproxy Hosted and service connect through an OCLC IP address. EZproxy will prompt users for authentication. In our case, both EZproxy and Koha connect back to an Active Directory system for user authentication. I'm not sure what it would take to connect EZproxy directly to Koha, if that's even possible, or if it is what it would take to make that happen for a hosted EZproxy system to talk to your local site. Joel Coehoorn Director of Information Technology 402.363.5603 *jcoehoorn@york.edu <jcoehoorn@york.edu>* The mission of York College is to transform lives through Christ-centered education and to equip students for lifelong service to God, family, and society On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 6:09 AM, SAIACS, Chief Librarian <library@saiacs.org
wrote:
Dear Friends,
I would like to hear your experience on authenticating library users from KOHA OPAC to access subscribed content. We are using KOHA 3.18. Your insights will be helpful to develop one for our library. we do subscribe to JSTOR, ebooks from EBSCO and others.
Thanks
Yesan Sellan, B.Com., MLISc., PGDLAN, UGC-NET., BCS Chief Librarian South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS) 363 Dodda Gubbi Cross Road, Kothanur P.O., Bangalore 77, India Phone: 91 80 2846 5235/5344/ 5649, Fax: 91 80 28465412, Mobile: 91-9972348251 Website: www.saiacs.org Alternative Email: yesans@gmail.com or yesan.sellan@saiacs.org
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