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Abstract

Extending Access: Additional User Groups

In this presentation I will question whether the issue of extending access to additional user groups is primarily an access management issue or a licensing and communication issue. JISC Collections has undertaken a wide variety of work in this area at both the national and institutional level and the message that comes back that whilst access management can help with the implementation of extended access, institutions will first need to deal with the communication and licensing issues surrounding the electronic resources they manage.

Presenter

Liam Earney

Liam Earney is Collections Team Manager at JISC Collections, where for the last 3 years he has been responsible for managing the licensing and negotiations for online academic content on behalf of universities and colleges in the UK. An essential part of those negotiations has been the migration of publishers and other providers of online content to UK Access Management Federation compliant technologies, the adoption of more wide ranging definitions of authorised users and the standardisation of permission for walk in users.

Liam has over a decade's experience working with online content, and six years negotiating agreements with providers such as Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, the BBC, Oxford University Press, ProQuest and Cengage Gale.

 

 

Abstract

JISC commissioned Oakleigh Consulting Ltd to conduct the Extending Access Management into Business and Community Engagement (BCE) Scoping Study as part of the the BCE Programme between August 2008 and April 2009.  The starting point for the study was that business and community groups and individuals would benefit from being able to use some of the the resources and knowledge assets which are taken for granted in the academic sector.  There are indications of increasing demands from some user groups for improved access to both institutional and third party resources.  Improving the ability to share this knowledge through effective ICT will have benefits at many levels, including for the wider economy and society.  Therefore, there is a need to find a way of providing secure, controlled access for targeted classes of users to certain institutional resources and knowledge assets.  This session will cover a summary of the results of the study, its conclusions and recommendations.

Presenter

Helen Baird

Helen Baird is a Management Consultant with Oakleigh Consulting Ltd. She led the recent Access Management Scoping Study for JISC’s Business & Community Engagement Programme. This study included an extensive consultation with sector bodies and HE and FE institutions on how they provide and manage access to their electronic resources and knowledge assets for external partners. The resulting detailed report contained a set of practical recommendations to inform JISC’s next steps in this area.

Helen is an information management and research specialist. She has led a wide range of assignments right across the education as well as other sectors over the past 12 years. Clients have included sector agencies and departments such as DCSF, DIUS (as was), JISC, HESA, LSC, Becta, Lifelong Learning UK, various higher education institutions and several directorates-general of the European Commission.