Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread Ingraham Dwyer, Andy
OCLC announced in April 2013 the changes in their license model for North America. EZProxy's license moves from requiring a one-time purchase of US$495 to a *annual* fee of $495, or through their hosted service, with the fee depending on scale of service. The old one-time purchase license is

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread Richard Sarvas
What about using some of the open source WSO2 products to mimic the same functionality as EZProxy? This sounds like a task that Enterprise Service Bus combined (ESB) with Identity Server (IS) could do. Most of their products are some version of an Apache project or other wrapped up in a common

[CODE4LIB] Job: Metadata Librarian at University of Maryland, College Park

2014-01-29 Thread jobs
Metadata Librarian University of Maryland, College Park College Park The University of Maryland Libraries is seeking a Metadata Librarian. Under the direction of the Head of Metadata Services, the Metadata Librarian implements and supports metadata strategies associated with digital initiatives

[CODE4LIB] SHARE plans

2014-01-29 Thread Eric Celeste
Hi Dan, I saw your GWU posting on C4L last week and it sounds like you have a great shop. I hope you are enjoying it. I really appreciated the brief conversation I had with you at CNI last month. The SHARE plans are starting to come together with a bit more specificity, and just last week we

Re: [CODE4LIB] SHARE plans

2014-01-29 Thread Eric Celeste
Whoops! Dear Code4Lib, I just spammed you all with a message intended for Dan. Sorry! Of course, if any of you feel like plowing through that one and offering me advice, I'd love to hear it! Again, apologies. ...Eric Eric Celeste / e...@clst.org / http://eric.clst.org / 651-323-2009

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread stuart yeates
The text I've seen talks about [e]xpanded reporting capabilities to support management decisions in forthcoming versions and encourages towards the hosted solution. Since we're in .nz, they'd put our hosted proxy server in .au, but the network connection between .nz and .au is via the

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread Margo Duncan
Would you *have* to be hosted? We're in a rural part of the USA and network connections from here to anywhere aren't great, so we try to host most everything we can. EZProxy really is EZ to host yourself. Margo -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries

[CODE4LIB] Job Application Deadline Extended - Scientific Research Data Librarian Position

2014-01-29 Thread Avila, Regina L.
Please excuse the cross-post This job application deadline has been extended to Feb. 14, 2014. ** Job Announcement ** Scientific Research Data Librarian Position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Announcement Number: ADMR-2014-0005 Position Title: Librarian ZA-1410-III

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread Cary Gordon
EZProxy is not a very challenging service to setup or run. You could set it up locally or pick one of the many cloud hosting providers in NZ, including IBM. We manage an EZProxy server for a library cooperative in Northern California on a small AWS instance. Its average load level is bored.

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread Riley Childs
If you ask nicely they would likely place it where you want, I would ;) Sent from my iPhone On Jan 29, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: EZProxy is not a very challenging service to setup or run. You could set it up locally or pick one of the many cloud hosting

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread David Friggens
The subscription fee for Australia and New Zealand is AU$600 (excluding GST) per year. They say: Our 2014 releases will concentrate on IPV6 and reporting capabilities. I've just discovered that we're currently running 5.1c, which was released in 2009. So perhaps we'll be able to survive on 5.7

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread Andrew Anderson
When OCLC first announced their purchase of EZproxy, we started a low priority research project to see what the alternatives were a few years ago, and what it would take to bring them into a production ready state. The two open source solutions we evaluated were Squid and Apache HTTPd. We

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread stuart yeates
Thank you Andrew, that is insanely useful. cheers stuart On 30/01/14 12:00, Andrew Anderson wrote: When OCLC first announced their purchase of EZproxy, we started a low priority research project to see what the alternatives were a few years ago, and what it would take to bring them into a

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread Shirley Lincicum
This post belongs in the code4lib journal ... Shirley On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Andrew Anderson and...@lirn.net wrote: When OCLC first announced their purchase of EZproxy, we started a low priority research project to see what the alternatives were a few years ago, and what it would

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread Ross Singer
This is amazing! Maybe a github repo for config blocks is in order? I figure the only way to work out the myriad kinks in this would be scale. -Ross. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Andrew Anderson and...@lirn.net wrote: When OCLC first announced their purchase of EZproxy, we started a low

[CODE4LIB] Call for proposals to host Code4Lib Conference in 2015

2014-01-29 Thread Rosalyn Metz
The Code4Lib Community is calling for proposals to host the tenth annual Code4Lib Conference in 2015. Prior to submitting a proposal we recommend reviewing the conference hosting web page [1] and How To Plan a Code4LibCon on the wiki [2] to learn more about the kind of venue the community seeks

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread Scott Prater
I second Stuart's kudos. Replacing EZProxy with an Apache proxy sounds just crazy enough to be brilliant. I could see an open source recipe book taking shape: how to accomplish EZProxy functions using Apache modules and their directives. I think that might end up being more useful than yet

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread Riley Childs
Well I think there are acctually working solutions if you Google EZProxy squid you find tons of people who have cobbled together solutions, you just need the best pieces together to make it work! Who wants to start the GitHub repo? Sent from my iPhone On Jan 29, 2014, at 8:58 PM, Scott Prater