An “institutional login” enables users to access various e-resources directly from anywhere using their institution’s login data. The institution verifies the user’s access authorisation itself. Registration with the service-provider is no longer required. In Switzerland, SWITCH coordinates this service for Swiss universities in the form of the authentication and authorisation infrastructure SWITCHaai.
To participate in the “web single sign-on” service SWITCHaai, Swiss universities use the open source software Shibboleth, which implements the open standard SAML. For historical reasons, terms like “Shibboleth login” or “Athens login” are still often used in lieu of “institutional login”.
Diverse online resources are already available via AAI. In collaboration with SWITCH, the consortium ideally aims to render all e-resources accessible via Switch’s “institutional login”.
Service-provider/products with active access via SWITCHaai
American Chemical Society (ACS)
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
American Medical Association (AMA) Journals
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Annual Reviews
APA PsycNET
ARTstor
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
BioOne
Brepols
Brockhaus NE GmbH
CAB Abstracts
Cairn.info
Cambridge University Press
De Gruyter
EBSCOhost (all databases)
Embase
Emerald Group Publishing
Faculty Opinions
GBI-Genios
Geofacets
HeinOnline
IEEE
Institute of Physics (IOP)
JSTOR
Kluwer Law Online
Mary Ann Liebert
MGG
Munzinger Archiv
Nature
OECD iLibrary
Orbis
OVID (all databases)
Oxford University Press (all databases)
Oxford University Press (journals)
Palgrave Macmillan Journals
Preselect
Project MUSE
ProQuest (all databases)
Reaxys
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Safari Books Online
SAGE Publications
Science AAAS
ScienceDirect
scientific.net
Scopus
Springer
Taylor & Francis
Thieme Journals
Thieme E-Books
Web of Science
Wiley
WISO
Service-provider/products in the pipeline
Ulrich’s
SWITCHaai home organisations
For service-providers
become a SWITCHaai Federation Partner
Technical details
SAML Entity IDs & Scopes