Podcast 3: Ale de Vries of Elsevier ScienceDirect talks about The UK Access Management Federation

Summary: The UK Access Management Federation launched in November 2006 and provides the UK Schools, Research, Further and Higher Education sectors with a secure way of accessing online learning materials and services using federated access management technology such as Shibboleth. Elsevier ScienceDirect was an early adopter of Shibboleth and took park in the UK pilot federation. For this Podcast Jane Charlton from Jisc spoke via Skype to Ale de Vries from Elsevier ScienceDirect about some of the issues around adopting this new technology and what the main benefits and challenges are for publishers and service providers.