JISC

Introduction to federated access management

• Introduction to federated access management - basic concepts, introduction to Shibboleth and federations, reasons for JISC's decision to adopt (link to the Introduction page)
• Federated access management roadmap - briefing paper (March 2008)
• 'Introduction to federated access management' animation
• Federated access management: guide for institutions - briefing paper (March 2008)
• Federated access management: guide for publishers and service providers - briefing paper (March 2008)
• Towards the future with federated access management - podcast/ feature in CILIP Update (May 2008)
• 'Impacts and opportunities for libraries and licenses' - access management presentation for the JISC Licensing workshop on 26 March 2007 (ppt)
• ' Voyage of the UK JISC federation' - a podcast of the talk by Nicole Harris, John Paschoud and Ross Macintyre, given at Educause 2006 Annual Conference.  
• Federated virtual learning environments (VLEs) - an overview of the work on federating the most popular VLEs that has recently been undertaken in the UK

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