Accessing our products
Information to support organisations in accessing our products, including IP registration and Shibboleth.
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Register or change IP addresses
As a librarian, information specialist, consortia member or agent of a subscribed organisation, you can register or change your organisation's IP address so that your individual library users won't need a user name and password to access licensed materials.
Recently subscribed customers
Use this form if you've subscribed to one of our paid journals, and need to register your IP details (accepting the click-through licence for online access).
Organisations that are not customers
If you represent an institution that is not currently a customer, use this form to gain free online access to our newest journals (first two volumes).
You can register your IP addresses for books by contacting eJournals Customer Services.
You are responsible for communicating any IP address changes to us in order to maintain online access to your subscriptions. You can do this by logging in to your librarian's portal account.
If you do not have a librarian's portal account please contact eJournals Customer Services
Shibboleth
The Shibboleth framework enables organisations to control authorised access to online resources, to which users can securely log on using a single username/password across or off site.
We offer Shibboleth access via the following Shibboleth federations
- Australian Access Federation
- Austria (ACOnet Identity) Federation
- Brazil (CAFe) Federation
- Canadian Access (CANARIE) Federation
- China (CARSI) Federation
- China Science and Technology Network
- (CSTCloud ID (CAS))
- Croatian (AAI@EduHr) Research and Education Federation
- Czech Republic (eduID.cz) Federation
- Denmark (WAYF) Federation
- French Universities and Grandes Ecoles Federation
- Germany (DFN-AAI) Federation
- Hungarian Research and Educational (HREF) Federation
- India (INFED) Federation
- Ireland (Edugate - HEAnet) Federation
- Italy (IDEM GARR) Federation
- Japan (GakuNin) Federation
- Korean (KAFE) Federation
- Netherlands (SURFnet) Federation
- New Zealand (Tuakiri) Federation
- OpenAthens Federation
- Portugal (RCTSaai) Federation
- Russian (FEDURUS) Federation
- Slovenia (Arnes AAI) Federation
- South Africa (SAFIRE) Federation
- Spain (RedIRIS) Federation
- Sweden (SWAMID) Federation
- Switzerland (SWITCHaai) Federation
- UK Federation
- USA (InCommon) Federation
Arrange access to Shibboleth
Librarians or online access administrators from institutions or companies who are part of one of the federations above can arrange access by contacting us using the details on this page.
Trust assertation documentation
Details of authoritative and accurate identity attributes required by participants in the Canadian Access Federation to access our publications.
Canadian Access Federation: Trust Assertion Document (TAD)
Details of the operational practices of participants in the InCommon Federation.
InCommon Federation: Participant Operational Practices
How to log in
Search our journals platform and click on an article result in the search screen; you'll then see an institution login option to access the full text. On our books platform, click "log in" at the top of any page and click the "access via institution" button.
OpenAthens
OpenAthens is a single-sign-on service for institutions in the UK, which is offered by Eduserv. This system – which is available as a local or hosted solution – helps librarians and publishers manage access to diverse online resources that would otherwise require multiple login details.
OpenURL and DOI
We support a number of methods by which robust links are maintained to authoritative versions of content, or – if the resources are not available – users are redirected to appropriate alternative.
OpenURL is a mechanism for transporting metadata and identifiers describing a publication for the purpose of context-sensitive linking through a local link resolver.
To register your OpenURL link resolver URL, please contact our customer service team with the following information:
- Institution name and address
- Base URL of your institutional link server
- URL or file of link image to be displayed
Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) are unique identifiers that provide – amongst other benefits – a framework for maintaining links to intellectual property when, say, ownership and URLs change.
Our journal articles and eBook chapters can also be linked to via the DOI that uniquely identifies an article or chapter.
Contact our eJournals team
We're here to help. Get in touch if you have any questions.