Gwendolyn Brook Library’s switch from EZproxy to OpenAthens

After the webmaster, who was responsible for maintaining the EZproxy server, left Chicago State University’s Gwendolyn Brooks Library, the e-resources librarian began to investigate alternative authentication systems that could be maintained outside the institution and switch from EzProxy to OpenAthens.

Watch their case study

This presentation will chronicle the reasoning behind the change to OpenAthens, lack of staffing and need for deeper analytics/statistics. It will also discuss the implementation process and introduce future plans and is presented by Joanna Kolendo, e-resources & reference librarian, Chicago State University, US.