Chang, Naicheng(INFLIBNET Center., February 25, 2009)
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Abstract:
Currently, in Taiwan there is no demonstrable solution for access management to the many
heterogeneous electronic resources that academic and university libraries provide for users, such as
the full texts of electronic journals and books, electronic databases, among many others. Shibboleth
has been developed in U.S.A. and the United Kingdom and has become an emerging solution to the
access management of electronic resources in a growing number of developed countries. Our experience
in starting a virtual federation by setting up an Identity Provider (IdP) at Academia Sinica and a
Service Provider (SP) at the Chinese Geoscience Union (CGU), Taipei, a society which publishes a
SCI journal entitled “Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences”, as well as request Shibbolethbased
service from some participating Shibboleth publishers like Elsevier, Springer and Thomson
ISI, can provide valuable experiences to any library or organization wanting to start a Shibboleth
federated access management for reference.