Information for Librarians

 

Subscription information

 

Managing your account

 

IP addresses

An IP address is the numeric address of a computer connected to the Internet. The IP address is sometimes also known as the Internet address. On most networks, each computer has its own IP address. An IP address is not the same as a domain name or an email address. To see the IP address of the computer you are using right now, look at the bottom of the feedback page.

To activate your subscription to Lyell Collection: Geological Society Publications Online, you will need to give us those IP addresses which both uniquely identify the eligible machines on your network and allow access only to authorized users of your subscription. All IP addresses contain 4 numeric segments, separated by periods. A segment is either a number, an asterisk (wildcard), or a range specified by a dash (-). See example below.

Please make sure you've correctly identified ALL needed IP addresses. Those using addresses not registered will not have access to Lyell Collection: Geological Society Publications Online.

Some institutions use proxy servers to network their environment. This means that all the IP addresses of the computers people are using appear to our server as a single IP address.

How to Fill Out the IP Address Section of the Subscription Activation Form

Place each IP address, or partial IP address, in the box provided, following these rules:

  • The only characters allowed are numbers, dashes (-), asterisks (*)
  • No segments of an IP address can be blank.
  • The allowed values for the first segment are 1-223.
  • The allowed values for segments 2, 3, 4 are 0-254.
  • The first segment cannot contain a range (-).
  • The first and second segments cannot contain a wildcard (*).
  • The third and fourth segments cannot both contain a range (-).

EXAMPLE using both the wildcard character (*) and the range character (-):

‘Educational University’ is a big, complex University. For this institution to sign up for Lyell Collection: Geological Society Publications Online, 3 different IP addresses are required. The main IP address and two department subnets which are not part of the ‘main IP address’ but are on the same campus:

Main

All addresses beginning with 10.175.4

Physics

All addresses between 192.168.55.* and 192.168.60.*

Marine Biology

All addresses between 192.168.62.77 and 192.168.62.145

This is how they would fill in their form:

10.175.4.*

192.168.55-60.*

192.168.62.77-145

(Note that these IP addresses are examples only, and will not work.)

 

View or change IP addresses

See http://admincenter.lyellcollection.org/cgi/ipupdate

 

Help with Shibboleth Profile Administration

To create and edit your Shibboleth Profiles, please go to https://www.highwirepress.com/support/ and sign into the Administator Toolbox. This is listed under 'Manage Subscriptions & Access'.

You can create Shibboleth profiles to use with your institution's subscription.

Setting up Profiles

Shibboleth access is via your institution's EduPersonScopedAffiliation attribute. This attribute is made up of Affiliations and a Scope in the form of 'affiliation@scope'.

Affiliations

The set of Affiliations shown on the interface are those Affiliations available for the federation. The specific Affiliations to be used by your institution depend on your licensing agreement with each individual publisher.

Scope

In the maint interface, the Scope is the part after the '@' sign in the EduPersonScopedAffiliation, and you may check off the appropriate set of Affiliations according to your licensing agreement. So in the example 'alum@stanford.edu', alum is the Affiliation and 'stanford.edu' is the Scope.

Once you have filled in the Scope and selected the appropriate Affiliations, click Save Profile to save your profile to your subscription. Once your profile has been saved to your subscription, your users will be able to gain access to the site by following the Login via your institution link on any login page.

Please contact us if you need assistance.

 

OpenAthens

The Geological Society of London Publications now offers access via Open Athens. For further information please contact sales@geolsoc.org.uk or Phone: +44 (0)1225 445046 (9.30am to 5.00pm (GMT/BST), Monday to Friday).

 

OpenURL

If you have an OpenURL link resolver, such as SFX, you can create links back to your library holdings in the reference sections of Lyell Collection: Geological Society Publications Online articles. Such links help your customers find the most appropriate copy of the article they are seeking at your institution.

You can set up your OpenURL configurations by signing in with your administrator user name and password. For more information and instructions on OpenURL see https://www.highwirepress.com/support/

 

CASA - Campus Activated Subscriber Access

The Lyell Collection has enabled Google Scholar's Campus-Activated Subscriber Access (CASA). CASA allows off-campus and mobile users to access the Lyell Collection material seamlessly, exactly as though the user is accessing via authenticated IP ranges on-campus. With CASA, library users can begin their research in a campus or company library and continue to access Lyell Collection content without the hassle of logging in through a proxy server or web portal, provided they use the same device each time. Alternatively, if the user has a Google account, this same seamless authentication follows the user on any device that is off-campus. Users must access the Lyell Collection 'on-campus' at least every 30 days to maintain off-campus access. Additionally, material accessed via CASA is correctly attributed to the subscribing institution, so usage statistics remain accurate.

For more information on how to make it easier for your patrons to access the electronic and print resources in your library when they're using Google Scholar visit https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/libraries.html

User FAQs

  1. As a reader/researcher, how can I take advantage of CASA?
    Answer: Visit your campus and read some journals at least once a month. You do NOT need to use Google Scholar, but doing a Scholar search is an easy way to do this. Alternatively, if you are traveling far from campus, you can connect monthly via your campus VPN/proxy.
  2. Do I need a Google Account to use CASA?
    Answer: No, a Google Account is not needed to use CASA. If you have a Google account and have signed into that account on campus, then your CASA access is 'portable' across multiple signed-in devices. In other words, you can use an office machine in campus, a mobile device in transit, and then a laptop at home and if they are all signed in to the same Google account CASA will enable the same access across all of them.
  3. Sometimes the article I want to access isn't available via CASA. What do I do then?
    Answer: The article may be so new (a day or less old), that it is not yet indexed by Scholar. Wait a couple of days and try again.
    Or follow the next Answer:
    Answer: It could be that you have not been on campus with 30 days to 'renew' your CASA access. If that's the case, you may need to use your campus proxy server to refresh that access, and then CASA will work again.

Librarian FAQs

  1. Is CASA-enabled access going to show up in my COUNTER reports?
    Answer: Yes, just like any institutional access, because it IS institutional access.
  2. Can I tell how much of my usage is through CASA?
    Answer: No.
  3. To enable CASA for a particular publisher, would the user have to visit that specific publisher while on campus?
    Answer: No. Once the CASA association is built for a user, it is applicable to all CASA enabled publishers.
  4. What data is being collected? Is it GDPR compliant?
    Answer: CASA uses only institutional subscription information. No individual private information is used. So CASA is GDPR compliant as it does not capture, convey or store any personal data about the researcher. Google's privacy policy covers CASA as well.
  5. Can I turn CASA off for my journals?
    Answer: Not for your institution. But individuals can turn it off. See the Help page at https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html#access