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Record Nr.

UNINA9910265129103321

Autore

Botyriute Kristina

Titolo

Access to Online Resources [[electronic resource] ] : A Guide for the Modern Librarian / / by Kristina Botyriute

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer Nature, 2018

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

ISBN

3-319-73990-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

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

Disciplina

020

Soggetti

Library science

Management information systems

Application software

Educational technology

Industrial management

Library Science

Business Information Systems

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Technology and Digital Education

Media Management

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.