Events list and resources from our webinar 'Making the business case for federated single sign-on', 24 May 2023.

1. 1
Making the business case
for federated single sign-on
24 May 2023

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Today's guest speakers
Chair: Emma Wilson-Shaw, e-resources manager, OpenAthens
Speakers:
• Thomas Dowling, director of technologies, Wake Forest University, US and chair of ALA
Federated Authentication Committee
• Jason Griffey, director of strategic initiatives, NISO and co-chair of the SeamlessAccess
outreach committee
• Kelechi Okere, identity customer market segment director, health markets at Elsevier
• Hong Ma, head of library systems and interim associate dean of user services, Loyola
University Chicago

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Resource list
• ALA Federated Authentication Committee
• Dowling, T. (2020) ‘We Have Outgrown IP
Authentication’, Journal of Electronic
Resources Librarianship, 32(1), pp. 39–46.
• Blog: Federated access is the future of
authentication
• Back to basics webinar: security and
user privacy
• Analysis/ opinion: Granular stats drill
deeper into content usage
• Advice: How to get a better UX from
publishers
• SeamlessAccess contract model license

4. 4
Meet the OpenAthens team in person!
Publishers
• SSP annual meeting
31 May – 2 Jun, Oregon
• ALPSP
13-15 Sept, Manchester,
UK
• Frankfurt Book Fair,
18-22 Oct, Frankfurt
Librarians
• QQML
30 May - 3 Jun, Crete
• EBSCO user group
7-9 Jun, Ohio
• ALA 2023
22- 27 Jun, Chicago
• IFLA WLIC
21-25 Aug, Rotterdam

5. 5
ALA Annual 2023
'Federated Authentication: Does
enhancing user experience mean libraries
need to sacrifice privacy?'
Sunday 25 June, 1 – 2 pm CT
Room: McCormick Place, W176ab
Moderator: Thomas Dowling, Wake Forest
University
Presenters:
• Amanda Ferrante, EBSCO
• Russell Palmer, GALILEO
• Win Shih, University of Southern California

6. Thank you
The OpenAthens team
contact@openathens.net