Individual users or users associated with an insitutional membership can sign up for an account in any of our Commons.
When they use an institutional email to register (in other words, an email address that matches their institution’s domain), their login will automatically be connected to the membership and give them full access from off-site or off-campus locations.
To sign up, visit any one of these sites.:
Canada Commons: https://canadacommons.ca/accounts/signup/
Mindscape Commons: https://mindscapecommons.net/login
To use the IP Registry, follow these simple steps:
Register for free with theIPregistry.org
Confirm the IPs currently listed for your institution and affiliated sites.
Communicate IP changes by adding or deleting IP addresses as necessary.
If you are newly adding your institution to the registry, let Coherent Digital know at support@coherentdigital.net.
If you have any questions about using theIPregistry.org please see their FAQs or contact them at info@theIPregistry.org
If you use EzProxy for remote user access, then there is a database stanza you can install on your EzProxy for each Commons from the OCLC EzProxy support site.
Africa Commons Database Stanza
At Coherent Digital, we support both Federated Shibboleth Authentication as well as ‘Bi-lateral’ metadata exchange.
Bi-lateral metadata exchange is used when the customer is not a member of a federation or Coherent Digital is not a member of the same federation. For example this is how we support OpenAthens configuration. This approach is also suitable for other SAML-based single-sign-on solutions like Microsoft Azure AD.
Currently Coherent Digital is a registered Service Provider at the following federations:
See our entry at REFEDs metadata explorer for up-to-date details.
For Shibboleth Authentication, please provide the following to support@coherentdigital.net:
Federated Shibboleth Configuration:
Your EntityID
Your Federation
For Bi-lateral Metadata Exchange:
The URL of your Identity Provider metadata (or the metadata in XML format)
Coherent Digital’s Shibboleth Information:
EntityID: https://sp.coherentdigital.net/entity
Metadata URL: https://connect.liblynx.com/entity/sp/coherent
Required Attributes: None. Any user with a login to your IdP will be granted access.
Once the shibboleth configuration is complete, the following Service-Provider-initiated URLs can be used to log your users into a product without having to encounter a ‘Where-are-you-from’ page. These URLs are what you would use in your A-to-Z database menu for remote users: