1. OpenAthens LA 2.0 implementation Matt Durant

2. Outline Bath Spa University Why single sign-on? –Improving the user experience The project / decision making Installation Live demo of 2.1 Questions

3. Bath Spa University Approx 7,500 full time students Additional students from partner colleges OpenAthens / IP authentication to resources 59 Electronic resources (databases/ e-journal access) Small Library team

4. Why change? Staff / Student drive for standardised access to University services. Remove the amount of time spent administering Athens accounts, permission sets etc. Increase the usage of our electronic services.

5. OpenAthens MD Academic search premier ScienceDirect JSTOR Education Image Gallery GEOBASE Electronic Resources Athens? Has to set-up an account & remember details Cant understand why other services wont work Will not use our resources if log-in forgotten Set-up self-reg accounts Maintain the database of students Manage permissions If Athens fails, our resources do too! Central Bath, UK

6. Single sign- on Academic search premier ScienceDirect JSTOR Education Image Gallery Education Image Gallery GEOBASE Electronic Resources Active directory database OpenAthen s LA 2.0 Students only have to remember their Bath Spa username/ password Administration is taken out of our hands – students have an account the moment they register If the system fails we contact the IT dept to fix it! Centralised. Inevitable increase of electronic resources usage Library WebPages Attributes

7. Project Shibboleth Set-up February 2009 Discussing the possible transition from OpenAthens to Shibboleth However… –February 2009: title changed to single sign-on after Eduserv workshop

8. Decision making Computing not comfortable with open source software Shibboleth – research & a lot of project time Eduserv - support & product updates LA 2.0 – easy interface for configuration No additional cost to our subscription. Statistics in 2.1

9. Installation Quick install (one afternoon) Server team applies updates Virtualised Red Hat servers for run time console & admin console Registered with Federation Problems: –What shall we name our installation? –Forgot to set-up NTP –Attribute authority

10. Questions? m.durant@bathspa.ac.uk 01225 875477 Twitter: @durtante