Remote authentication: The Obvia solution

Abstract

With increasing demands from library users to access subscription databases from off-site, libraries are searching for and creating ways to authenticate off-site users. While many libraries have successfully managed to set up their own solution via the use of IP addresses, user IDs and passwords, digital certificates, and/or proxy servers, many of these solutions lack in important capabilities such as the ability to collect quality statistics and the control of creating and managing a multitude of varying users.