UK federation information centre | Home / Home browse An exciting new OpenAthens feature coming this summer: the Redirector | Eduserv Blog The development team at OpenAthens, with the invaluable input and insight of our partner EBSCO, spent the cold winter months (in the UK at least) developing a new feature for our hosted service: the Redirector. The goal of the Redirector is to create a seamless experience for a user accessing e-resources either within their organisation’s IP range or off network. If an end-user is accessing the resources within a recognized IP range they will be taken directly to the resource they require. If they are off-site and outside of the IP range they simply need to provide their username and password to access the resource. The Redirector eases the burden of link management for librarians and improves the experience for patrons and end users, providing: one link for managing access;one format for all compatible resources;and one OpenAthens knowledge base that stores and maintains the required formats. For more information email openathens@eduserv.org.uk.
OpenAthens local directory integration beta programme - Beta Releases - Confluence Start date: 26th JuneEnd date: 28th JulyParticipants: UK HE/FE customers This beta programme will allow you to test the new functionality around connecting OpenAthens with your local LDAP/Active Directory or integrating OpenAthens with Microsoft’s ADFS. See our recent blog outlining the goal for these exciting new developments to OpenAthens. The beta programme will run in parallel to our live service with a full production release scheduled for September dependent on beta feedback. Who should be involved from my organisation? In order to setup and fully test the new developments you will need to have both IT and Library involvement. New Features We will be running a phased beta and new functionality will be released throughout the programme, see below for full details: Where are they in the administration interface? There are five main areas in the beta and details are on the features and functions page, as are links to the relevant documentation. Uptime Beta setup Feedback Support