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<p>At today's meeting I said I would demonstrate to you next week
how the academic community had solved the federation of federation
GUI issue. They have, and it has significantly improved from a few
years ago when I last used it. Then I had to choose the federation
(e.g. JISC, Canarie, Internet2 etc.) and then my institution in my
federation. Now it is significantly improved, as all the
universities from all the federations appear to be held by the RP,
and typing in a few characters of the name of your IDP brings up a
list that matches your string.</p>
<p>As an experiment please try one or both of the following</p>
<p>1. ACM digital library. Here is a search for a particular article<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://dl.acm.org/action/doSearch?AllField=vol+30&expand=all&SeriesKey=tissec">https://dl.acm.org/action/doSearch?AllField=vol+30&expand=all&SeriesKey=tissec</a></p>
<p>choose the article that you want to read e.g. "Measuring and
Analysing the Chain of Implicit Trust: A Study of Third-party
Resources Loading". Click on Get Access then Login then choose
Institutional Login. You could click the down arrow of Select your
institution, but the list is huge. Instead type in a few
characters of an institution name and see what transpires. If you
type "Mass" then only two choice are presented. If you type "Beij"
then 5 institutions are shown etc. You get the idea. Its pretty
cool.</p>
<p>2. IEEE Explore digital library. here are the results of one
search for papers by myself<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?newsearch=true&queryText=chadwick%20d.w">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?newsearch=true&queryText=chadwick%20d.w</a>.</p>
<p>Click on "How to Break Access Control in a Controlled Manner"
then click PDF and a pop-up box asks you to Search for your
institution. Try entering different strings and you will see a
short list of institutional names that match from all over the
world. E.g. "kent" reveals 5 institutions. Again its a pretty cool
interface.<br>
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<p>Food for thought</p>
<p>Kind regards</p>
<p>David<br>
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