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Simply Voting

News and Announcements - Thu, 2012/04/26 - 11:02
Simply Voting has joined Edugate and is now a live service. Institutions and their respective Students Unions that subscribe to this service will be able to readily authenticate users via Edugate. For more information on this interesting service see www.simplyvoting.com
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EBSCOhost and Emerald go live

News and Announcements - Thu, 2012/04/26 - 10:45
EBSCOhost is now a live member of the Edugate federation, subscribing libraries who wish to enable Shibboleth access via Edugate can make a request EBSCO's support team by sending an email to shib-tech@ebscohost.com the following template can be used

To:shib-tech@ebscohost.com Subject: Shibboleth access request for Mullingar Institute of Technology In addition to our current IP access, please enable Shibboleth access via the Irish Edugate federation, MIT have the following affiliations staff@mit.ie, student@mit.ie. [...]
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IEEE and ACM Digital Libraries go Live

News and Announcements - Thu, 2012/04/19 - 08:40
IEEE Xplore Digital Library and the Assocation for Computing Machinery(ACM) Digital Library are now active Edugate enabled services. A subscription is required to access these services
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Using Edugate to prove your student status for free/discounted Microsoft software

News and Announcements - Wed, 2012/03/14 - 16:29
Two new Edugate member services went live today, both deliver Microsoft software to students (either free or discounted) using Edugate to verify a users affiliation to their institution.

* Dreamspark.com i s a Microsoft website and offers developer and designer tool as well as server applications free to students. A clear description of the services is outlined a [...]
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IPA and IEEE join Edugate

News and Announcements - Fri, 2012/03/02 - 16:16
The Institute of Public Administration have joined Edugate and have commissioned their identity provider service. The IEEE have joined Edugate and will shortly be offering its Irish subscribers Edugate based access to its electronic content (e.g IEEE Xplore )
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Edugate workshops 2012

News and Announcements - Fri, 2012/02/24 - 15:00
A schedule of workshops for 2012 is now available on our website at http://www.heanet.ie/workshops. Please note the basic and advanced Tomcat training courses will be of benefit to any institution using a Shibboleth identity provider, but are generic courses designed to give attendees a good understanding of Tomcat regardless of the application (should be of particular interest to Liferay or Novell IDM/Zenworks users). [...]
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Edugate statistics and real-time activity

News and Announcements - Fri, 2012/02/10 - 17:57
We have been counting the number of successful and failed authentications at each institution for almost a year now, these statistics are supplied to a Cactii instance and allows us to determine if the Shibobleth IdP's at each institution are working correctly. Edugate now handles 40,000 authentications per day, for an estimated 30,000 individual users. Recently, we developed a 'weathermap' that uses the same data which can be viewed at on our website at http://www.edugate.ie/content/edugate-live. A more extensive 'weathermap' is displayed on screens at the HEAnet network operations area (see photo below/attached) which allows the HEAnet middleware team [...]
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Who is Edugate for?

Edugate provides a single access mechanism that can enable access to online resources supporting alliances, research collaboration, consortia and shared services. Now users can use the credentials issued by their institution to access Edugate enabled web-sites and benefit from a personalised and persistent experience, with privacy features that put the user in control.

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Enable users to use the campus directory credential to access Edugate enabled web sites beyond the campus boundary from anywhere, whilst protecting the campus directory from unnecessary searches and the user credentials from use on web sites beyond your control. 
 

Your patrons are individuals, not IP Addresses!
 
Enable publishers to provide users with a consistent and personalised experience regardless of their location or the device they are using.
Improve the end-user experience by providing Single-Sign-On and reducing the frequency of prompts for campus credentials.
Connect your patrons to your subscribed resources,  even where the user finds the resource without using the library.

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Restrict access to your club or society web-site to valid campus users without needing the campus IT department to provide you with access to the entire campus user database.
For student unions, Edugate enables online elections that can authenticate all students currently enrolled without needing to expose campus credentials or personal information.

Example: UL Students Union

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Provide your suppliers with a means to interact with all campus members. Whether its parking management, physical access management, catering or sports facilities, Edugate can provide a secure means to validate staff and student status. Access cards or tokens can be issued online in a self-service manner, removing the some, if not all, of the paperwork.

Example: Apcoa Parking Management

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When establishing any online service that will be used by multiple institutions, Edugate will provide a means to authorise access to the service by user, role or institution without having to issue usernames/passwords or other credentials to the users of the service.
Most research projects are collaborations and when it comes to hosting collaborative tools or sharing documents and data, Edugate enables the hosting partner to seamlessly grant access to the project content.

Example: NDLR Repository
Example: HEAR and DARE

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Campus IT managers and IT security officers are increasingly reluctant to synchronise user credentials or open up campus directory services to applications that are hosted in the cloud. Even locally hosted managed applications that require the campus credential to be processed by the application present a security risk. Edugate is built on the open SAML federated access standard that is used in the financial services, aerospace and governmant eID and provides Single-Sign-On without the risks.

e-Government
Whether it's a central or local government service that needs to validate that a student is a current student, Edugate can open up the potential for numerous e-Government services for students (e.g. Grants and Tax Credits)

e-Commerce
When offering a student discount online, relying on a campus email address leaves the offer open to abuse since many institutions offer 'email for life'. Edugate will allow you to know if a customer is a current student and which institution the customer is affiliated to.

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