More on the JSTOR theft....JSTOR is abandoning the insecure method of IP authentication that made the theft possible, and that most other publishers of priced ejournals still prefer. It is turning to Shibboleth to authenticate users, a new method developed for the Internet2 consortium. Shibboleth uses a digital token stored in the user's browser. The tokens are sophisticated variations on cookies that take information from the university's directory server and tell the journal server what level of access is authorized.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/21/2003 10:29:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
