Understanding Changes in Access Mechanisms to Online Content

In this session, we will review the current landscape of remote access technologies from the perspective of Internet standards development, vendor support, and library impact. We will share how companies like Google, Apple, and others are introducing new privacy-enhancing features that are already impacting the traditional ways libraries provide access to remote content and how traditional access technologies such as IP address and Referral URL authorization are already being blocked by some web browsers. Even federated identity will see changes to how the protocols work to enable authentication and authorization online. We will also explore approaches that stakeholders across the industry can use to mitigate the impact on remote access in the short term and advocate beyond our industry for longer-term solutions to address this critical need.

SSP Annual Meeting Session Learning Level

Mixed-Learning

Publication Date

2022 | Jun 03

44th Annual Meeting (2022)

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“Building a More Connected Scholarly Community” The last 19+ months have been a fascinating contradiction, making us feel both painfully disconnected and also perhaps more bonded than ever before. How can we take the strengths we already possessed as a community, fold in lessons learned during the pandemic, and aim for being an even stronger, broader, and more connected community? Our Annual Meeting brings together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, and countless others with a communal interest and stake in the dissemination of scholarly information. We look forward to the 44th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to reconnect and to connect anew.

Heather Flanagan

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Publisher and Copyeditor, Spherical Cow Consulting

Heather Flanagan, Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting, comes from a position that the Internet is led by people, powered by words, and inspired by technology. She has been involved in leadership roles with some of the most technical, volunteer-driven organizations on the Internet, including IDPro as Principal Editor, the IETF, the IAB, and the IRTF as RFC Series Editor, and SeamlessAccess as Technical Liaison, just to name a few. If there is work going on to develop new Internet standards, or discussions around the future of digital identity, she is interested in engaging in that work.

Jason Griffey

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Director of Strategic Initiatives, National Information Standards Organization

Jason Griffey is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he works to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise is useful and needed, and leads ongoing projects such as NISO’s participation in the Coalition for Seamless Access. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of IT at the University of TN at Chattanooga.

Tim Lloyd

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Founder/CEO, LibLynx

Tim Lloyd is founder and CEO of LibLynx, a business helping publishers, service providers and libraries to manage identity and access to online resources, and better understand the usage and impact of those resources. Tim is a member of the Governance committee and co-Chair of the Outreach committee for SeamlessAccess.org, and a member of COUNTER’s Open Access/Unpaywalled sub-group. His career spans several decades in a variety of product development and operational roles in online publishing, with a particular focus on developing innovative products and services to support online learning and research.