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 ______________________________________ IMPORTANT : This message is intended only for the addressee. It may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized disclosure is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message. Thank you. Please consider the environment before printing this email. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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
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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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Hello! I use a simple solution for a few of my clients where they are accessing e-journals and e-books from their OPAC. Essentially all of the e-content providers in India offer IP based authentication. So there is a Squid proxy server on the campus that is available. I have a few external helper auth scripts for squid that query the Koha db's borrowers table. This is how it all works in my cases: 1. Library user visits the opac from an on premise desktop using the Koha OPAC. The e-content records carry the resource links in 856$u 2. The PCs used have an proxy autoconfig file (.pac) file configured in their network settings. The PAC file is designed to proxy only for the e-content, for everything else, it is a passthru. 3. When people click the URL in 856$u, the PAC file catches it and directs the request to the Squid proxy. 4. Squid proxy does not yet know who is requesting, so it dispatches the request to my custom auth helper script. 5. The auth helper script pops up a http auth dialog on the user's desktop, where they enter their Koha db user name and password (which they otherwise use to login into the OPAC) 6. user keys in the credentials. the script takes these and checks against the Koha DB's borrowers table. if existing and the account has not been barred due to any reason, it informs SQUID to allow it. 7. User get the requested URL served up on the browser. Additonally the script maintains login data in the Koha database in a custom table, which provides accounting. The management and reporting part is packaged as a Koha plugin. this helps as now users can even access to their subscribed content from even outside the campus as these specific requests are routed through the proxy server which is on the approved IP address block registered with the content provider. hope this helps -idg On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:39 PM, 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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