Update: Registration for this event is now closed. To contact the organisers, please visit the contact page of the RA21 project website: https://ra21.org/index.php/contact/

RA21: Resource Access for the 21st Century

RA21 (Resource Access for the 21st Century), a joint STM and NISO initiative, has been developing pilot technology to improve the user experience of Single Sign-On (via SAML) while protecting privacy.

Benefits of Single Sign-On include:

• A simple and more effective access experience for your patrons and your library resources,
• protecting patron privacy in a Single Sign-On environment, and
• driving greater usage of library resources by delivering a better access experience

Attend this free half day event for an update on the results emerging from RA21.

Attendees will learn about the issues addressed within the user experience aspect of the project and the testing of solutions via two pilots.

Presentations will also explain how the library community values of protecting privacy are at the centre of the initiative.

Join us to find out more as RA21 moves towards developing best practice recommendations.

The morning session will be followed by a networking opportunity with refreshments.

For anyone unable to attend in person, the morning session will be made available remotely. Please ensure that you select the ‘Remote participant’ option when registering so that the relevant access information can be sent out to you.

Who should attend?

The focus of the session will primarily be aimed at academic library representatives, however publishers, educational access management federations, vendors and service providers would also be welcome.

RA21: Resource Access for the 21st Century

09.30 – 10.00 Registration and refreshments

10.00 – 12.30 RA21 Seminar

• The Academic Library perspective
• Improving the user experience
• User experience and the RA21 pilots
• Privacy & security implications
• Next steps

Register as a Remote Participant to access the morning session as a webinar.

12.30 – 13.30 Networking

End of session.

For further information on RA21: Resource Access for the 21st Century visit www.RA21.org.