UMP EBC Technical FAQ

General Information

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A: The MARC records are organized by publication year . For 2019, the collection will be complete by the end of December. For 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 we are filling some gaps, so the collections will be completed by the end of 2019 alsoand are completed at the end of each year. For 2011 and prior (what UMP refers to as the “Archive”) there will be a continual process of adding older titles -- many of which have not yet been made available as ebooks -- and this will take a number of years. This is also why we do not offer a permanent access option for the Archive.

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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' and to release the value 'member' when applicable. For more details on configuring your SSO to work with Fulcrum (ACS endpoints), please find our metadata in the eduGAIN aggregate metadata XML.
3. You must provide us with the entityId of your Identity Provider.

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A: The Book Analytics Dashboard has been built by the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI). It aggregates usage information from a variety of publishing platforms in order to provide authors, libraries, and funders with a comprehensive view of the impact of Ebooks (currently with a focus on open access books). This dashboard originates in the work of the Open Access eBook Usage Data Trust project, of which Michigan Publishing is one of the leaders. The University of Michigan Press is one of five pilot partner publishers to contribute open access ebook usage data to the project, and to receive a customized report aggregating usage data from a range of sources. 

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Q: How can I customize the institutional name in the top right corner of Fulcrum with the name of our library?

A: Email us at fulcrum-info@umich.edu and tell us how you would like your institution name to display.