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Membership

Join the current members of the Edugate federation by completing the membership forms below;

  • Higher Education Institutions who wish to enable their members to access services in the Edugate federation should complete the Edugate Identity Member Agreement (see below) and (return it to the address below). This will complete the administrative step and allow HEAnet to complete or assist in the technical deployment of the institutions Edugate Identity Provider Service.

 

  • Higher Education Institutions (or departments, groups therein) or consortia from Higher Education Institutions, who wish to enable Edugate login to their services should complete the Edugate Provider Member Agreement (return it to the address below).

 

  • Organisations who provide online services that are of benefit to the education and research of the members of the Higher Education sector should complete the Edugate Associate Provider Contract.

Agreements should be posted to;

Edugate Operator
HEAnet Ltd.
5 Georges Dock
Irish Financial Services Centre
Dublin 1
Ireland 
 
The Edugate test federation may be used to test or trial Edugate federated access without completing the membership agreements. Requests to join the test federation should be sent to noc@heanet.ie. The current members of the test federation are listed  here

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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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