1. Linking Users, Resources, & Data Driven Decisions with OpenAthens
Katy Gabrio, Assistant Director
Christopher Holly, Director of SaaS Innovation

2. Helping over 2,200 organizations in 49 countries, enable access to hundreds of thousands of journals, databases and e-books for over 4 million end users.
This is what OpenAthens is today – Helping over 2,200 organisations in 49 countries, enable access to hundreds of thousands of journals, databases and e-books for over 4 million end users
But I want to start off by taking a step back from this – How did we get here? And what does that journey look like?

3. EBSCO OpenAthens Partnership
Subscription is with EBSCO
EBSCO handles OpenAthens invoices/queries/interactions
EBSCO Implementation Services
Single point of contact in EBSCO
EBSCO contacts vendors
EBSCO sets up links with EBSCO products

4. What makes OpenAthens different from IP/proxy?
Uses latest SAML 2.0 security protocol (end to end encryption)
Provides a Federation framework (InCommon, OpenAthens)
Works across all devices and locations
Supports user personalization
Collects detailed usage statistics
Always fully hosted
Designed by librarians for librarians
So what makes OpenAthens different from IP/Proxy based authentication?
Well the biggest differentiator is that OpenAthens is designed by librarians for librarians – the service was first designed and built by an academic library - the University of Bath in England. Since then the product has changed many times but remains true to this core, there are no stanza’s, no config files as everything is configured via the admin portal we’ll see a little later during the demo
OpenAthens is always fully hosted – nothing to install, no servers to provision or manage in-house
It works across all devices and locations – OpenAthens is totally independent of a users IP address, so as long as you have an internet connection and a browser then you’re good to go. Whether that’s on a smart phone, tablet, laptop or desktop pc
We’ll look at this in more detail later on but OpenAthens collects detailed usage statistics so that you know exactly who’s accessing your resources and from which part of the organisation
And OpenAthens supports user personalization – which we’ll see more of during the demo

5. OpenAthens for End Users

6. Library User’s Process

7. OpenAthens for Library Staff

14. Attribute Reporting Correlate Procurement to Use
“Attribute” reporting by users, groups, or other customized category
E.g.; alumni, faculty, graduate, undergraduate, law library, health science library, primary major, etc.

15. OpenAthens at Macalester
So at this point I just wanted to take a quick look through some of the development projects we’re working on right now at OpenAthens

16. Became a HathiTrust partner
December 2016
Became a HathiTrust partner
Interest in supporting efforts preserving monograph collections
2013 launched major collection review and deselection process
Unique in that we are currently using OpenAthens only for HT
December 2016
Became a HathiTrust partner
Talking internally about interest in supporting efforts to preserve monograph collections and open access efforts.
Statewide conversations about shared print preservation efforts.
HathiTrust as another way to support those types of efforts.

17. HathiTrust Technical Requirements:
Member of InCommon Federation (U.S. libraries)
Using a SAML 2.0 identity provider that is part of the InCommon Federation = Shibboleth
Became a partner knowing that we did not yet have the authentication piece in place with the plan to explore with ITS what it would take to implement Shibboleth at Macalester.
Wrote a proposal asking our colleagues in ITS to explore possibility of implementing Shibboleth at Macalester.
Currently use EzProxy for most of our proxy needs.

18. HathiTrust & Shibboleth What about OpenAthens? DOUBTERS:-)
January 2017
Visit from Ebsco reps
HathiTrust & Shibboleth
What about OpenAthens?
DOUBTERS:-)
January 2017
At one point visiting with Ebsco reps about new things happening with Ebsco and they mentioned OpenAthens. At the time we weren’t looking to replace EzProxy. In that conversation I brought up HathiTrust and they told me that OpenAthens could be used with HathiTrust.
DOUBTERS!!

19. Shibboleth at Mac = Hiring Contractor
May 2017
Met with ITS about what a Shibboleth implementation would look like at Macalester. No in-house expertise, would need to contract the implementation and support out.

20. + Summer 2017 Received a quote OpenAthens Trial (set-up by Ebsco)
Multiple phone calls and s
January 2018: SUCCESS!
Summer 2017
Received a quote
OpenAthens Trial set-up
Multiple phone calls and s (75 thread:-) with EduServ (Adam Snook), Ebsco, HathiTrust, University of Michigan (Sebastien Korner)
Took some time to figure out and test the different pieces and to make sure we were all on the same page
Everyone was great to work with and helpful throughout the process.
Success in January 2018
Future: Look more closely at OpenAthens as a potential replacement for EzProxy

21. Thank you!
Questions?