Informit Search | Authentication options

Informit supports a range of authentication methods

Informit supports multiple authentication methods. Please discuss with us which method is the most appropriate for your organisation. The following options are available: 

Single Sign On (SSO)

An institutional account is created which your users can access through your Single Sign On credentials. This is done by adding Informit as a 'Service Provider' to your SSO setup which will be recognised by your SSO identity manager. 

It's worth noting that this option does not create individual accounts for your users. Our SSO setup will validate your users credentials against your institutions identity management service and Informit will allow them access under your institutions license. 

We support the following SSO federations:

  • AAF - Australian Access Federation (Shibboleth)
  • Open Athens
  • Microsoft Azure AD SSO
  • Okta
  • Ping Federate

IP Address authentication
An institution provides it's known IP Range to Informit (i.e. 192.1.168.32 - 192.1.168.64) and any user accessing Informit from one of these registered IP's within the range is authenticated against your institutional license. 

EZProxy

The Informit EZproxy stanza is registered with OCLC’s directory of database stanzas maintained by OCLC which can be found here: EZproxy stanza

An institition provides it's known EZproxy IP address to Informit and we register this in your account.

 

Email domain

Your institutions email domain is recorded against your institutional license. Any user who establishes a personalised account with Informit using an email address under this domain will automatically be associated with your institutional license and will be given access under that personal account. 

Note: This step requires the manual creation of personalised accounts by users to gain access to your institutional license. 

 

Please contact our Customer Success team to discuss which method is the most appropriate for your organisation. We will work with you to set up your preferred method.

 

Still need help?
If you have further questions on authentication methods, please reach out to us at support.informit@rmit.edu.au