Access and identity management: getting ahead of the curve

As research becomes increasingly done on academics’, students’, and staff’s own time, the role of the Systems Librarian – with the responsibility of maintaining and providing access to electronic resources – becomes ever more important. In December 2014, OpenAthens sponsored a survey of librarians’ experiences and perceptions of identity and access management, which raised the concept of being ‘ahead of the curve’ at their home institution with regards to identity and access management. TBI recently went back to some of these librarians to find out what being ahead of this curve looks like to them, and any lessons and experiences which could help other institutions overcome some of those shared obstacles.

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