From: Byron Russell <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 08:11:59 +0000 Ingenta have been committed to serving the scholarly community with best services and best practice for two decades. As part of this commitment we consult ongoing with a wide and varied range of stakeholders from publishers to librarians, standards developers and interested parties. This process led to the development of Ingenta Connect and Ingenta Open, our new project for OA content, and most recently the Library Membership Service. As part of any service development and launch process there are always unforeseen effects, which is why Ingenta have continued to actively seek feedback through the launch period and early days of implementation of the service. Based on feedback received, and discussions with our friends at JISC and OpenAthens, Ingenta have decided to reinstate free use of Shibboleth and Open Athens to registered institutions using the Ingenta Connect service. Both services should once again be in place by the first week in June 2017. This does not affect the other benefits of the service, including unlimited alerting and cost savings on the Ingenta Connect home page institutional / course advertising. Ingenta continues to work hard to provide products and services reflecting best practice and value to our customers and the community as a whole. Mark Williams, JISC’s UK Access Management Federation Manager, said “Through some very positive engagement with Ingenta, I’m pleased to see that the means of access to Ingenta resources via Shibboleth (and Open Athens) will be free at the point of use for UK federation members. It’s very encouraging to hear how important resource providers such as Ingenta consider federated access to be and that federated Single Sign On, any time, anywhere, will continue as the baseline of what we expect modern resource access to be for the end user.” Jon Bentley, Commercial Director, OpenAthens, commented “Successful federated single sign on is built on collaboration and co-operation. By listening and engaging with their customers Ingenta are supporting the library community in maintaining streamlined, secure access for end users. We can all work together to improve single sign on out into the future.” Byron Russell Head of Ingenta Connect Ingest Tel. +44 (0)1865 397881 Mob. +44 (0)7900 494258 [log in to unmask] www.ingentaopen.com