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As of April 2, 2020, the BAR Digital Collection is live on Fulcrum. To use the BAR Digital Collection, visit fulcrum.org/barpublishing. Please contact bar-support@umich.edu for help with any issues.

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• Access and Browser Requirements
• OpenURL Compliance
• Linking to Text Sections
• ADA Compliance and Accessibility
• Printing and Downloading
• MARC Records
• Titles/MARC Records Removed
• Usage Statistics (Stats)
• Proxy-Server Configuration
• IP Address Updates
• Common Access Problems
• Shibboleth / OpenAthens
• Privacy and Data Collection
• Terms
• Contact Information
• Search wildcards

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Fulcrum distributes MARC records via the a number of Electronic Management System / Knowledge Base products. See the table under 'Discoverability / Delivery Services' for details.

Subscribers can also download MARC records directly, free of charge, from https://ftp.fulcrum.org/BAR/MARC/. Files named for a specific product/collection, e.g. 'bar_2022_annual.mrc', contain the cumulative set of MARC records for all titles that are currently live in that collection. These files are the best option for making sure you have the most up-to-date set of records. We also make available incremental update files for those who prefer only to load records that have been added or corrected since your previous load. In this case, just download and load the files named e.g. 'bar_2022_annual._update_YYYY-MM-DD.mrc', substituting YYYY-MM-DD with the all dates that follow the last time you loaded records for this collection.

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• 'bar_pre2020_collection_int.mrc' contains all records for British International Series titles with a publication date prior to 2020.
• 'bar_pre2020_collection_int_update_2020-10-15.mrc' contains only records for the above collection that were added on October 15, 2020 (either because the title is newly added to the collection or the cataloging is newly complete). It will not contain records from previous update files unless those records are being enhanced or corrected in this update.
• 'bar_pre2020_collection.mrc' contains all records with publication date prior to 2020, including all titles in both the British Series and International Series.

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BAR stats are COUNTER 5 compliant.

To see stats on chapter downloads (as opposed to views in the reader), an administrator can request an Item Master report (IR) and look for Data_Type "Book_Segment" instead of Data_Type "Book."

IMPORTANT: Several reports are available, but for details on title usage BAR subscribers should draw on the Title Master Report with the total item requests metric. For general platform usage, subscribers should draw on the Platform Master Report using the total item investigations metric. For details on chapter downloads, subscribers should draw on the Item Master Report using the total item requests metric.

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If your campus uses a proxy server, it generally needs to be configured with the host names and/or domains of our servers.

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The University of Michigan campus backbone, on which Fulcrum is hosted, does not support IPv6 at this time. Please continue to send us your IPv4 ranges for basic authentication.

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Access Problems

If you experience problems that result in being prompted for authentication, inability to reach the authentication page itself, or receiving a message that collections are not authorized, please consult: https://www.lib.umich.edu/digital-library-production-service-dlps/dlps-common-access-problemscontact mpub-access@umich.edu with details (including screenshots of the page you're stuck on with the browser address bar visible).

Shibboleth / OpenAthens / SSO

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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.

This information can be included in your order form or emailed to bar-support@umich.edu.

A Fulcrum logo is available at https://www.fulcrum.org/img/fulcrum-logo-shibboleth.png

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

WAYFless URLs

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]

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https://doi.org/10.30861/9781841711973?urlappend=%3fentityID=https://shibboleth.umich.edu/idp/shibboleth

While we try to avoid DOIs that resolve to Fulcrum URLs that contain query parameters (e.g. "?locale=en"), if such an exception occurs, the WAYFless URL syntax above will result in an error. In these cases, please append the following instead:

?urlappend=%26entityID=[your institution's entityID]

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

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The University of Michigan Library, which hosts the BAR Digital Collection, may collect some data about your institution’s use of BAR in order to improve services and to integrate with university teaching and learning initiatives. It is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of user data in compliance with federal and state laws and professional standards. Follow this link to read the university’s Library Privacy Statement, which governs Michigan Publishing’s hosting of BAR.

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