New service from SAGE Journals Online

Initially posted on Tuesday, 12 August 2008

SAGE Journals Online is the award-winning delivery platform that allows users to search over 500 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine, and their related backfiles to retrieve peer-reviewed articles crucial to their research.

WAYFless URL: For SAGE Journals Online, the format is: http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/shibboleth?entityID=<IDP's entity ID>&uri=<target URL>

The entityID parameter is the entity ID within the federation of the institution's Identity Provider. The uri parameter is optional. By default, users would be redirected to the SAGE portal homepage after they've signed in, but administrators may use that parameter to have users directed to a particular journal, or page within a site. Both parameter values should be URL encoded.

Here's an example:

http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/shibboleth?entityID=https%3A%2F%2Fshib-idp.ucl.ac.uk%2Fshibboleth&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.sagepub.com%2Fbrowsejournals.dtl%3Fsource%3Davailable

The above link would send a user to the University College London login page and then, once signed in, redirect to the page listing the journals to which the user can access.

This service is available for subscription to UK HE, FE & research councils through JISC Collections.