New Service from HW Wilson

Initially posted on Monday, 7 July 2008

The H.W. Wilson Company is one of the leading companies providing content discovery and delivery. An icon in the library community for 110 years, H.W. Wilson is dedicated to providing the highest-quality Web and print resources in the world.

H.W. Wilson products are familiar to generations of library users as standard tools in college, public, school, and professional libraries worldwide.

WilsonWeb offers over 40 full text and abstract & index databases serving the academic community, public, schools and professional libraries. Collections include: Omnifile Full Text Mega and Select Editions, Business Full Text, Art Full Text, Art Museum Image Gallery, Applied Science & Technology Full Text, The Avery Index of Architectural Periodicals, Education Full Text, and Biography Reference Bank.

Wilson recommended customers to contact their federation for the required attribute configuration. For the UK federation, first ensure that your identity provider releases eduPersonScopedAffiliation to the WilsonWeb SP. Then contact WilsonWeb technical support service (http://www.hwwilson.com/Productsupport/psupport.htm). They will gave you appropriate access when you provide eduPersonScopedAffiliation.

WAYFless URL: https://Your.SingleSignOnService/SSO?target=https%3A%2F%2Fvnweb.hwwilsonweb.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fshibenv.pl&shire=https%3A%2F%2Fvnweb.hwwilsonweb.com%2FShibboleth.sso%2FSAML%2FPOST&providerId=https%3A%2F%2Fvnweb.hwwilsonweb.com%2Fshibboleth

For example using ProtectNetwork SingleSignOnService Location:

https://idp.protectnetwork.org/protectnetwork-idp/SSO?target=https%3A%2F%2Fvnweb.hwwilsonweb.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fshibenv.pl&shire=https%3A%2F%2Fvnweb.hwwilsonweb.com%2FShibboleth.sso%2FSAML%2FPOST&providerId=https%3A%2F%2Fvnweb.hwwilsonweb.com%2Fshibboleth
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This service is available for subscription to UK HE, FE & research councils through JISC Collections.

Note:

1. The only attribute that an identity provider must release for its users to be able to access many services that are licensed for use by everyone at a particular organisation is eduPersonScopedAffiliation. This is a scoped attribute, which might, for example, have the value "member" in scope "uni.ac.uk", often written as:

It is used for the basic authorisation decision: does uni.ac.uk subscribe to the service in question? If so, the user is allowed access. The service provider will maintain its own list of which organisations (scopes) can access its service. For allowed organisations, the federation's Technical Recommendations for Participants indicate that, in HE/FE, users with scoped affiliation values from the set {member, student, staff, faculty, employee} are typically authorised to access content licensed on the basis of the JISC Model Licence, while {affiliate, alum} are not.

An identity provider can generate eduPersonScopedAffiliation automatically (without an attribute store) by setting the required scope in resolver.xml, as described in SetupIdP.