A Single-Sign-On and a Remote Login Solution to Library E-Journals and E-Resources

Abstract

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have propelled the growth of large numbers of electronic resources, especially E-Journal resources across the world. Libraries spend a major portion of their budget for subscribing to electronic resources such as e-journals, e-books, bibliographic I full-text databases, online services and web portals. While IP based authentication shall take care of hassle-free content access to the campus community, librarians have been relentlessly contemplating on the pressing issue of providing remote access to the e-resources for their users even when they are offcampus. It is a growing concern for users when they need to login every time to several different services and databases. This article looks at a unique solution that could be provided by the institutional library wherein users need to login just once and thereby get access to all the e-resources through that single authentication. This article also provides insights on IIMK's ...