Off-campus access: Shibboleth

To fix visualizing problems accessing some databases through the VPN, we have enabled Shibboleth access for ACS, IEEE Xplore, Oxford Journals, Science Direct, Scopus, SpringerLink, Wiley.

Shibboleth is a single sign-on system for computer networks and the Internet. It allows people to sign in using just one identity (institutional account) to various systems run by federations.

The service is provided to all affiliated members with a Sant’Anna School account name.surname; Guest account are NOT enabled.

Shibboleth access may slightly change between different databases, but you can broadly follow these steps:

• Open the database and click on “Login/Sign in”
• Select the institutional access, as “Institutional/Shibboleth login”, “Login via your Institution” or similar
• From the drop down menu, select the Italian federation “Italy – IDEM/GARR” and the name of our institution “Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna”
• Now login with your School account and browse the resource