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Access to EDINA Services

Access for end-users of EDINA services varies depending on the particular service; please consult the table below for specific details.

Service Name UK Federation [1] (Shibboleth) Campus/ Direct IP Access [2] Athens [3] Non-Academic Access Allowed User Registration Required Z39.50 Target Institutional Subscription Info Shibboleth Technical Info
agcensus Yes - - Yes - - subscribe to agcensus agcensus Shibboleth info
CAB Abstracts Yes Yes - - - CAB Abstracts Z39.50 info subscribe to CAB Abstracts CAB Abstracts Shibboleth info
Digimap Yes - - - Yes - subscribe to Digimap Digimap Shibboleth info
GoGeo [7] - - - Yes - - n/a GoGeo Shibboleth info
GeoDoc
within GoGeo		 Yes - - - Yes-
[8]		 - n/a -
Land Life Leisure Yes Yes - Yes - Land Life Leisure Z39.50 info subscribe to Land Life Leisure Land Life Leisure Shibboleth info
Mediahub Yes Yes - - - - subscribe to JISC MediaHub -
NewsFilm Online Yes Yes - Yes[5] - NewsFilm Online Z39.50 info subscribe to NewsFilm Online NewsFilm Online Shibboleth info
OpenDepot.org - - - - - - n/a -
SALSER - - - - - - n/a -
SUNCAT - - - - - SUNCAT Z39.50 info n/a -
Statistical Accounts of Scotland Yes Yes - Yes - - subscribe to Statistical Accounts Statistical Accounts Shibboleth info
UKBORDERS™ Yes - Yes - Yes - n/a UKBORDERS™ Shibboleth info

User access information is displayed below. If you are unsure how you should be accessing a service please ask your Library Helpdesk or EDINA Site-representative.

  1. The UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research enables secure access to external services using the same username and password as for local services at your institution. This facility is not available at every institution, so you should only choose "UK federation" access when locally recommended to do so. JISC is currently supporting wider rollout of federated access across HE and FE, while Becta is doing the same in the schools sector.
  2. Direct Access allows you to connect directly to the service without a username and password, because your PC's unique address (its IP number) is recognised by the service as belonging to an authorised range of addresses. This facility is not available at every institution, so you should only choose Direct Access when locally recommended to do so. Direct access provides less useful management information, and will not allow you to make use of user profiling services.
  3. Athens access management is no longer used for the majority of EDINA services. Your institution may however use OpenAthens, the Athens to UK federation gateway service provided by Eduserv. Please ask your librarian or EDINA Site Representative for advice.
  4. Use of restricted medical films from Film & Sound Online does require user registration. See http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/restricted.shtml for more details.
  5. NewsFilm Online allows free access to searching and browsing. However, only users affiliated with subscribing institutions may download clips.
  6. The restricted medical films from Film & Sound Online can only be access using OpenAthens if the institution has its own Athens (virtual) IdP in the WAYF.  This collection cannot be access using the generic Eduserv Athens IdP.
  7. There are features such as MyGoGeo and databases accessed by Advanced Search which require authentication.
  8. Contact details are optional for GeoDoc.