Access to Online Resources [electronic resource] : A Guide for the Modern Librarian

• Tác giả: Kristina Botyriute
• Ngôn ngữ: ger
• ISBN-13: 978-3319739908
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 020 Library and information sciences
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018
• Mô tả vật lý: VII, 42 p. 49 illus. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 169891
• Chủ đề: 1. Application software; 2. Educational technology; 3. Industrial management; 4. Library science; 5. Management information systems; 6. Library Science; 7. Business Information Systems; 8. Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); 9. Media Management; 10. Technology and Digital Education

Tóm tắt

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.