There is considerable interest in leveraging SAFIRE and eduGAIN to integrate with the various library information providers, such as academic content, journal, and database publishers. Information providers variously term this “Shibboleth”, “SAML” or “Institutional” logins, and in most cases are already integrated with other federations around the world.
The following documents the integration status of various providers in SAFIRE.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Status
- No SA institutions listed by default
- Login link terminology
- Sign in via your Institution
- Documentation
- Authorization attribute(s)
- eduPersonEntitlement
American Chemical Society
- Status
- Tested, Working
- Login link terminology
- Find my institution
This provider appears to have adopted SeamlessAccess for login, which is a new standard that greatly improves the user experience.
BioOne
- Status
- No SA institutions listed by default
- Login link terminology
- Login via your Institution (Shibboleth)
- Documentation
Cambridge Core
- Status
- Tested, working
- Login link terminology
- Institutional login
- Notes
- Libraries need to set an appropriate value for eduPersonScopedAffiliation within the Cambridge admin portal.
- Documentation
- Authorization attribute(s)
- eduPersonScopedAffiliation
Dawsonera
- Status
- Tested, working
- Login link terminology
- Shibboleth login
- Notes
- Libraries need to generate a WAYFless URL of the form https://www.dawsonera.com/Shibboleth.sso/Login?entityID={{idp_proxy_entityid}}&target=https://www.dawsonera.com/depp/shibboleth/ShibbolethLogin.html?dest= using their proxied entity id and send it to Dawson support to get themselves listed.
De Gruyter
- Status
- No SA institutions listed by default
- Login link terminology
- Connect via Institution
- Documentation
EBSCO
- Status
- Tested, working
- Login link terminology
- Shibboleth Login
- Notes
- Libraries need to set an appropriate value for eduPersonScopedAfilliation within the EBSCOadmin portal.
- Documentation
- Authorization attribute(s)
- eduPersonScopedAffiliation
Elsevier ScienceDirect/Scopus
- Status
- Tested, working
- Login link terminology
- Other institution
- Notes
- Libraries need to generate a WAYFless URL of the form https://auth.elsevier.com/ShibAuth/institutionLogin?entityID={{idp_proxy_entityid}}&appReturnURL={{url-encoded-target}} using their proxied entity id and send it to Elsevier support to get themselves listed.
- Documentation
- Authorization attribute(s)
This provider appears to have adopted SeamlessAccess for login, which is a new standard that greatly improves the user experience.
Emerald Insight
- Status
- Tested, works
- Login link terminology
- Shibboleth login
- Notes
- Libraries need to contact Emerald support and request Shibboleth access is enabled, after which logins via a WAYFless URL work. However, instutions appears under UK Higher Education in the discovery interface.
Gale Cengage
- Status
- Not tested
IEEE Xplore
- Status
- No SA institutions listed by default
- Login link terminology
- Shibboleth
- Notes
- Institutions need to register
JSTOR
- Status
- Tested, working
- Login link terminology
- Login via an institution
- Notes
- Libraries need to generate a WAYFless URL using their proxied entity id and send it to JSTOR support to get themselves listed. Can negotiate specific values of eduPersonScopedAffiliation.
- Documentation
- Authorization attribute(s)
- eduPersonScopedAffiliation
kanopy
- Status
- Tested, working
- Login link terminology
- https://www.kanopy.com/signup/find/university
- Notes
- Libraries need to ask kanopy to enable
Shibbolethand send them their proxied entity id. It may help to mention that your metadata is already exported to the UK Access Federation via eduGAIN.
Kortext
- Status
- Tested, working
- Login link terminology
- Sign in to browse your university library
- Notes
- Libraries need to contact Kortext support and request Login access be enabled, using their proxied entity id. It may help to mention that your metadata is already exported to the UK Access Federation via eduGAIN
- Authorization attribute(s)
- eduPersonScopedAffiliation
LexisNexus International
- Status
- Tested, discovery problem
- Login link terminology
- Use Academic Sign-in
- Notes
- Metadata for South African institutions exists, and a WAYFless URL reaches the right identity provider. LexisNexus indicate support UK Fed and InCommon. Needs an institution using LexisNexus.com to engage with them about the next steps.
- Documentation
- Authorization attribute(s)
- eduPersonScopedAffiliation
LexisNexus South Africa
- Status
- No support, contacted
- Notes
- Thus far, both SAFIRE & two universities have reached out to LexisNexus SA about this. If you’d like this to work, please add your voice to the call to LexisNexus SA. (TENET:4612)
Nature.com / SpringerNature
- Status
- Tested, discovery problem
- Login link terminology
- Access through your institution
- Notes
- Metadata for South African institutions exists, and a WAYFless URL reaches the right identity provider. Needs an institution using this service to engage with them about the next steps.
This provider appears to have adopted SeamlessAccess for login, which is a new standard that greatly improves the user experience.
Newsbank
- Status
- Not working. Engaged at SANLiC2019
- Notes
- Appears to require a WAYFless URL of the form http://infoweb.newsbank.com/shibboleth?wl={{idp_proxy_entityid}}, however doesn’t send an AuthN request with South African entities.
- Authorization attribute(s)
- eduPersonScopedAffiliation
ORCID
- Status
- Tested, working
- Login link terminology
- Institutional account
- Notes
- Individuals need to link their institutional account with an existing ORCID identifier. Supports wayfless URLs of the form https://orcid.org/Shibboleth.sso/Login?SAMLDS=1&target=https://orcid.org/shibboleth/signin&entityID={{idp_proxy_entityid}}
Ovid SP
Oxford University Press
- Status
- Tested, discovery problem, engaged at SANLiC2019
- Login link terminology
- Sign in via your Institution
- Notes
- WAYFless login works, not sure what else needs to be done.
- Authorization attribute(s)
- eduPersonScopedAffiliation
ProQuest (RefWorks)
- Status
- Not tested, contacted at SANLiC2019
- Login link terminology
- Use login from my institution
- Notes
- WAYFless login works, not sure what else needs to be done.
Radiological Society of North America
- Status
- Not tested
Royal Society of Chemistry ✻
This provider directly participates in SAFIRE
- Status
- Tested, Working
- Login link terminology
- Log in via your home institution
- Notes
- Libraries need to contact RSC support to get access enabled.
- Documentation
- Authorization attribute(s)
- eduPersonScopedAffiliation
Sabinet ✻
This provider directly participates in SAFIRE
- Login link terminology
- Not supported
- Notes
- Sabinet is in the process of joining SAFIRE (signed participation agreement).
SAGE
SpringerLink
- Status
- No SA institutions listed by default
- Login link terminology
- Log in via Shibboleth or Athens
- Notes
- A WAYFless URL allows login; not sure what else needs doing.
Taylor & Francis Online
- Status
- Tested, working
- Login link terminology
- Shibboleth
- Notes
- Institutions will need to have their unique organisation ID/scope registered to their account to permit access to their users. Institutional administrators can enter their Shibboleth credentials themselves, or provide T&F with the details and they can add this to their account on their behalf.
- Authorization attribute(s)
Thieme Connect
Web of Science / Web of Knowledge (Clarivate Analytics)
- Status
- Tested, discovery problem
- Login link terminology
- Institutional sign in
- Notes
- Appears under UK Federation
Westlaw UK (Thomson Reuters)
- Status
- Tested, working
- Login link terminology
- Access through academic federation
- Notes
- Libraries need to contact their support representative and request Shibboleth access. They will need to provide their proxied entity id. No ARP because Thomson Reuters have not published a privacy policy.
- Authorization attribute(s)
Wiley
- Status
- Test, working
- Login link terminology
- Institutional Login
- Notes
- Libraries need to contact Wiley support and complete a Shibboleth (Federated Access) Request Form.
- Documentation
- Authorization attribute(s)
- eduPersonScopedAffiliation
Values needed by information providers
Publishers and information providers may ask for an entity ID or IdP identity. If they’re accessing your identity provider via eduGAIN, the value they will need is your institution’s proxied entity ID. You can get this by finding on your institution in our list of identity providers and then clicking on the Metadata entityID field to expand it. This will display other forms of the entity ID, including the Proxied entityID for you to copy-and-paste.
You may also be asked to make use of a “Wayfless” URL. Different providers have different mechanisms for constructing these, so you will need to refer to the providers’s documentation. However, they will always involve a URL-encoded version of your entity ID — follow the instructions in the preceding paragraph and copy the Wayfless entityID.
If you are asked for an entitlement value, you will most likely use urn:mace:dir:entitlement:common-lib-terms as described in the common-lib-terms specification and eduPersonEntitlement.
Finally, you may be asked for affiliation or scoped affiliation values. These are the values your institution sets for eduPersonScopedAffiliation and will be a value like member@example.ac.za. You may be able to figure out the correct ones by logging into our test service provider, but generally you should confirm them with your own identity provider administrator or IT support staff.
Hints from other federations
Other federations have links to providers’ documentation that may prove useful to those trying to get this to work: