360 Services: Athens-Enabled Content Providers
- Product: E-Journal Portal
Why can't 360 Core E-Journal Portal, 360 Search, or 360 Link provide links into Athens-enabled content providers, such that patrons don't need sign on a second time into the content providers?
We understand our library clients want to provide a single sign-on (SSO) experience from our discovery services (the E-Journal Portal, 360 Search, and 360 Link) into Athens-enabled content. Unfortunately, there isn't a universal industry-standard method that content providers use to implement linking into their Athens-enabled content.
Some libraries also have two further sign-on issues:
- Some online content providers do not support Athens authentication.
- Athens-enabled content providers support linking from discovery services in different ways. For example, a number of Athens-enabled content providers do not support links using Athens DSP Id; please review this document to see which providers do and don't support DSP Id.
- Date Created: 9-Feb-2014
- Last Edited Date: 20-Feb-2014
- Old Article Number: 7479