Technical Implementation of Shibboleth-based Access Management for the N-LIST Programme

Abstract

Information and Library Network Centre, an Inter University Centre of University Grants Commission, acts as a gateway to scholarly content for Indian academic and research community. Centre also provides access to electronic resources to universities and colleges across India through its UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium and N-LIST Programme. INFLIBNET Centre is implementing state of the art, standard based open source technological solutions towards for extending access to e-resource to users irrespective of their physical location. Shibboleth is such standards-based, open source software system that facilitates single sign-on web-based access to electronic resources across or within organizational boundaries. This paper discusses advantages, customization and implementation of Shibboleth-based Access Management Solution for its multiple national award winner N-LIST (National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content) programme.