UMP EBC Technical FAQ

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1. Your institution must have a SAML-based Identity Provider (IdP) whose metadata we can consume via a stable URL and which defines a security domain using shibMD:scope. This is most commonly achieved through membership to an identity federation that participates in eduGAIN.  The following federations have been confirmed to support access to Fulcrum via eduGAIN as of November 2019:
   • Canadian Access Federation (CAF)
   • HEAnet / Edugate
   • InCommon
   • UK Federation
2. Your Identity Provider must be configured to release attribute 'eduPersonScopedAffiliation' to entityId 'https://fulcrum.org/sp'.
3. You must provide us with the entityId of your Identity Provider.

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Please note that Fulcrum is not a member of OpenAthens Federation. You must participate in another identity federation to take advantage of SSO integration. .

Q: Are WAYFless URLs supported?

A: Yes. If you have Shibboleth/SSO access set up, the DOIs in the MARC records can be modified to create WAYFless URLs. This will allow your patrons to authenticate at your institutional portal without encountering a login prompt on Fulcrum. If the patron already has an active session with your institution's Identity Provider, then their access will be seamless.

To make a BAR DOI into a WAYFless URL, append the following:

?urlappend=%3fentityID=[your institution's entityID]

For example, a WAYFless version of  https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11434091 for the University of Michigan would be:

https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11434091?urlappend=%3fentityID=https://shibboleth.umich.edu/idp/shibboleth

To create a WAYFless link to the collection as a whole:

https://www.fulcrum.org/michigan?entityID=[your institution's entityID]

DOIs

Q: When will the DOIs be redirected to the Fulcrum platform? 

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