Higher Education from Cambridge University Press is now fully integrated with SeamlessAccess, a cross-publisher initiative that aims to enable a more streamlined online access experience for users of scholarly resources.  The SeamlessAccess button is the new starting point for the institutional login journey for instructors and students accessing textbooks in an array of disciplines within Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine and Nursing, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences. 

Crucially, SeamlessAccess enables true single sign-on across publisher platforms, and obviates the need for repeated log-in attempts as users move from one provider to another in the course of their research and learning activity.  In order to maximise the usability, utility and intuitiveness of the new service, the presentation and operation of the button – which remembers the end-user’s institutional affiliation between sessions – has been made as consistent as possible across different publisher sites. 

SeamlessAccess is supported by a growing list of Service Providers, including the American Chemical Society (ACS), Elsevier ScienceDirect, Emerald Publishing, IOP Publishing, Nature, Sage Publishing, Taylor & Francis, Wiley Online Library and Wolters Kluwer.

The implementation of the SeamlessAccess button on the Higher Education login page is the latest step in a programme of development from Cambridge that aims to improve the experience of end-users of Shibboleth-based institutional authentication.  Back in March we released a new Discovery Service – or WAYF (‘Where-Are-You-From’) display – designed to speed up and improve the authentication journey of end-users who choose to start the institutional login process on either Cambridge Core (https://www.cambridge.org/core) or the Higher Education website.  In the coming months, the SeamlessAccess button will also be added to Cambridge Core, accelerating access to more than 1.8 million journal articles and more than 46 thousand monographs and other books.

Further information about Institutional Login is available from the Cambridge Core FAQs page.  Any questions about the new Discovery Service or about the Press’s participation in SeamlessAccess should be addressed to our Library Marketing team – UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa (onlinepublications@cambridge.org), USA, Canada (online@cambridge.org), Australia, New Zealand (academicmarketing@cambridge.org) and Asia (asiamktg@cambridge.org).