Re: [CODE4LIB] EBSCO LinkSource customers?

2013-06-06 Thread Alex Armstrong
Hi Ross, An FYI -- maybe not useful. We're using an archaic authentication system that doesn't play that well with LinkSource (or anything else for that matter). So, I actually tried to set up LinkSource without hiding it behind authentication. This turned out to be a fool's errand because

Re: [CODE4LIB] EBSCO LinkSource customers?

2013-06-06 Thread Ross Singer
Ok, I wanted to send back to the list what I found out, because there's some pretty useful (and completely undocumented AFAICT) info here: Ben Hockenberry pointed out that they are able to circumvent the authentication via some customer ID that they set up. He sent me this link:

[CODE4LIB] EBSCO LinkSource customers?

2013-06-05 Thread Ross Singer
Hi all, I was wondering if there was anybody on the list that works for an institution that uses EBSCO's LinkSource as their link resolver that _doesn't_ hide it behind their single sign-on service. Or, alternately, if you know of one (from somewhere other than where you work), that's