JISC Collections manages over 130 agreements for online resources, including archives and e-journals. They work to provide access to these resources for UK higher education through managing subscriptions and user definitions. However, there is no standardization in how extended user groups like further education colleges access these resources, with access determined on a case-by-case basis. JISC Collections is developing tools to help libraries determine how to provide access to authorized users and working on projects to help institutions better define user roles to facilitate broader access.

1. JISC Collections
Who are my users?
Or?
These are my users! Mark Williams
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2. Background JISC Collections
 Currently managing over 130 agreements including -
– UK National Academic Archive
• Over 20 archives licensed in perpetuity and available freely to all UK HE, FE and
Research Councils
– NESLi2
• 40 agreements for e-journals
• JISC Collections Over 90 agreements for online databases, reference materials,
multimedia resources and e-book collections
• Working at all academic levels and with all subject areas
• Managing over 7,000 subscriptions
• Additional authorised user initiative
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3. IdM & the egg JISC Collections
 Licence governs who (role) can access a resource
 IdM governs what role an individual is
 Access management gives us (or will give us) the tools to express that.
 This is IdP centric (institutions) but SP will play a role as they consume our (OUR)
definitions
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4. jisc-content.ac.uk
Free…but….. JISC Collections
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5. Two institutions, using the same
terminology, defining it differently, with JISC Collections
very different results…
“Need a licence that will include FE
students on course validated by us.[…]
It would be better if we could have better
licences that have perhaps bands of extra
charges for any additional users and then
we could decide to pay or not.”
“We validate foundation degrees in FE
colleges. We do not buy any specific
resources for them but they are our
students with network login, email, VLE
access and full borrowing rights plus of
course full access to all our e-resources. I
do not consider licensing an issue for
them”
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6. BCE a complicated theatre JISC Collections
 Oakleigh Report in Extending Access Management into BCE
– Scoping study Nov 2009
– Looked at rationale / case for extending AIM into BCE
– Recommendations for next activity
 Determined:
– No standardisation in how BCE groups get access to resources, ad hoc case
by case basis
– Demand increasing
– Barriers: Institutions need to be SPs, cultural, organisational, licensing
constraints, lack of clarity about what BCE groups should access
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7. Recommendations JISC Collections
 Relevant Recommendations:
– Explore potential & options of using Federation for access for external
users
– Take more holistic approach & responsibility for IAM – & share good
practice
– Help facilitate institutions’ development of IAM solutions for external
user groups
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8. JISC Collections
Access management can help with the implementation of extended access
But
Institutions will first need to deal with:
communication and licensing issues surrounding the electronic resources they
manage
And IdM
So…….
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11. JISC Collections activity JISC Collections
 Develop problem based diagnostic tool .
– Aims to help librarians determine how to provide access for users
which fall outside the definition of authorised user within the model
licence.
– In some cases these users will be deemed students of a
university and therefore entitled to access
– in other situations it may be necessary to sign an additional
Authorised User Licence.
 Forthcoming BCEproject.
 Map the two together = An answer (but not necessarily a solution - the
licence still needs to do that)
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12. JISC Collections
Contact: m.williams@jisc.ac.uk
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