The library and the NREN Guy Halse & Wesley Barry https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9388-8592 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4584-092X
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The library and the NRENGuy Halse & Wesley Barry
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9388-8592
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4584-092X
What is an NREN?
“National Research and Education Network”
https://www.casefornrens.org/
“Bandwidth Stokvel”
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Term coined by Geoff Hoy to describe TENET’s role circa 2002 But a common starting point for all NRENs.
What is an NREN?
“National Research and Education Network”
https://www.casefornrens.org/
“Specialist ICT organisation with an elaborated, multifaceted service
offering tailored to meet the niche needs of higher
education and research”
The South African NREN
Beneficiaries (Universities, etc)
Governm
ent (former D
ST)
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TENET was established in 2000 as a non-profit company with members, and is accountable to its beneficiary organisations (“bottom-up”) SANReN is the SANReN Competency Area in the CSIR and was established in 2005 to manage the DST’s investment in research network (“top-down”) Sweet spot for successful NREN balances this bottom-up and top-down approach, and in a convoluted way we’ve achieved this.
NRENservices
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Word cloud picks out some of the services already offered by the SA NREN But we want to focus on the three that are highlighted in colour because they seem most relevant to this audience
Trust & Identity
“Today, online services are crucial to research and education. Students, researchers and institute staff rely on them for collaboration through webmail, e-learning, teaching, conferencing, analysing and sharing data, and for accessing journals and libraries. Trusted digital identities underpinned with secure technologies allow them to simply and securely access content and services.” — GÉANT
Online services such as journals and publications, but also research infrastructure (CERN, SKA) Broad grouping of services all with the common goal of making collaboration and exchange of information easier
SA ORCID Consortium
14members
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TENET is the South African ORCID Consortium Lead There are currently 14 members (as at 1 July 2019). 13 are universities, 1 is a funding agency.
ORCID
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ORCID Forms part of the Academic Research Ecosystem An ORCID Record can contain information about a researcher gathered from multiple sources. Building ORCID into systems enables organizations to make trusted assertions about connections between people, places, and contributions that everyone can benefit from Collect and Connect Workflow. 5 badges, the first one being the authenticate badge.
ORCID
Libraries IT Departments
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The ongoing internal conflict about responsibility of ORCID within a university. There needs to be harmony between Libraries, IT and Research Office as they all play a role.
ORCID: vendor-based systems
Repository Systems Publishing Systems Research Information system
• Haplo• ePrints• Fedora• DSpace
• Editorial Manager• Open Journal Systems• ScholarOne Manuscripts• eJournalPress• ReView
• Converis• Digital Measures• Elements• Faculty180• InfoEd• IRMA• Pure• DSpace CRIS• Vivo
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These are some popular ORCID integrated vendor-based systems. If you have any of these already they are a good starting point.
This slide originally contained video screen-capture demonstrating working single-signonusing UCT credentials between Wiley, ORCID, Figshare, Cambridge Core, ScienceDirect
and Taylor & Francis. The video has been removed to save space.
To find a list of publishers and platform providers known to work with SAFIRE, please visit https://safire.ac.za/technical/resources/library-services/
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Demonstration of what works right now
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ORCID Consortium only: Durban University of Technology NRF South Africa University of South Africa (UNISA) University of Limpopo SAFIRE members: Cape Peninsula University of Technology Central University of Technology, Free State CSIR Nelson Mandela University South African Theological Seminary University of Fort Hare Walter Sisulu University Both: North-West University (NWU) Rhodes University Stellenbosch University Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) University of Cape Town University of Kwazulu Natal (UKZN) University of Pretoria University of the Western Cape University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) As at 25 June 2019
Where are you from problems
EBSCO support cases #2788422 & #3762497
Current workaround is to use “WAYFless
URLs” directly from your database listing,
bypassing WAYF/discovery
completely
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EBSCO provides a useful demonstration of the problem, but they are by no means the only one. Nor are they the worst! Ideally we’d prefer it if users didn’t even have to know SAFIRE existed; they UX should be intuitive for people who’ve never heard of us. We’re on the same page as Mary Lister
RA21: Resource Access for the 21st Century
“Publishers, libraries, and consumers have all come to the understanding that authorizing access to content based on IP address no longer works in today’s distributed world. The RA21 project hopes to resolve some of the fundamental issues that create barriers to moving to federated identity in place of IP address authentication by looking at some of the products and services available in the identity discovery space today, and determining best practice for future implementations going forward.” – ra21.org
https://ra21.org/
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Note that EBSCO participates in RA21, so hopefully their UX issues will be addressed Definition is straight off RA21 page. But highlight that it is publishers, libraries and consumers. RA21 participants include Elsevier, Wiley, IEEE, Springer Nature, Proquest, EBSCO, GSK, Wolters Kluwer, Taylor and Francis, … and federations, institutions Recommendations being operationalised by “The Coalition for Seamless Access”; STM are recruiting an outreach manager
RA21 & WAYF/discovery
• Make auth work the way users expect• Single, consistent user experience across publishers, platforms,
databases, service providers …• … with a call to action that remembers where you are from
https://www.niso.org/publications/rp-27-2019-ra21
like Google & Facebook
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Federations an important role-player in this, and often a point of continuity between disjoint exercises – we can talk equally about the library discovery problem, the challenges facing malaria researchers, and the square kilometre array… TENET has offered to host an instance of the CDN infrastructure required to make the UX work in South Africa Recommendations are important – institutions implementing their own UX should consider incorporating them.
RA21 & user experience
https://www.niso.org/publications/rp-27-2019-ra21
FIM4L
• “FIM4L (Federated Identity Management for Libraries) is alibrary-led working group that aims to bring a seamless userexperience and service set up, the latest standards andtechnologies and a focus on user privacy into federatedauthentication for library services.” – fim4l.org
• Some overlap with RA21, but broader mandate• Libraries encouraged to participate – please join the mailing list!
https://fim4l.org/
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New group established in January Follows on from the FIM4R group mentioned at SANLiC 2017
how can we help you?https://tenet.ac.za/contacthttps://safire.ac.za/contact
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We’re only able to help when we know what’s going on e.g. Fitch Connect (SUN) & Rakuten Overdrive (RU) With due credit to First National Bank for popularising the phrase in South Africa.
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