Category: Elgaronline

Off-campus access using eZproxy and updates to third-party web sites

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The eZproxy authentication framework enables the library to provide secure off-campus access to subscription-based third-party resources for providers who are unable to support the Shibboleth protocol. We have encountered an issue over the last few months that has led to the loss of off-campus to a number of such resources. This is the result of those third-party web platforms moving their entire site across from ‘http:’ to the more secure ‘https:’ protocol. This causes a key component of the exchange between the university’s eZproxy server and the third party site to fail.

The solution to this issue is an upgrade to the eZproxy server, an enhancement that colleagues in IS are preparing to deploy to the production environment once testing has successfully completed.

The resources currently affected by this problem are:

  • Elgar Online

A further update will follow once the upgrade to eZproxy has been deployed and access to these services is confirmed as restored.

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New resource: Elgaronline eBook Business Collection

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Sixty-five full-text eBook titles from the Elgaronline Business Collection are now accessible through Library OneSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password (using eZproxy) from off-campus.

Titles in the collection include The psychology of the recession on the workplace; Finance in an age of austerity : the power of customer-owned banks; Business models for sustainability and Entrepreneurship and multinationals : global business and the making of the modern world.