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Record Nr.

UNINA9910265129103321

Autore

Botyriute Kristina

Titolo

Access to Online Resources : A Guide for the Modern Librarian / / by Kristina Botyriute

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2018

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

9783319739908

3319739905

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 42 p. 49 illus.)

Classificazione

BUS070060COM005030COM032000EDU039000LAN025000

Disciplina

020

Soggetti

Library science

Business information services

Application software

Educational technology

Advertising media planning

Library Science

Business Information Systems

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Digital Education and Educational Technology

Media Planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Authentication and Authorisation -- Web based Authentication -- IP Address Recognition -- SAML -- OpenID Connect -- Basic Trouble Shooting. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence.The book offers a concise guide for librarians, helping them understand the challenges, processes and technologies involved in managing access to online resources. After an introduction the book presents cases of general authentication and authorisation. It helps readers understand web based authentication and provides the fundamentals of IP address recognition in an easy to understand manner. A special chapter is



dedicated to Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), followed by an overview of the key concepts of OpenID Connect. The book concludes with basic troubleshooting guidelines and recommendations for further assistance. Librarians will benefit from this quick and easy read, which demystifies the technologies used, features real-life scenarios, and explains how to competently employ authentication and access management.