[Wactclc-primo] [External] [Wactclc-alma] O'Reilly platform authentication

[Herman, Amy]

We subscribed when it was Safari Books Online and we just used EZproxy authentication. I think most people just read the book in the browser, like most people do with Ebsco ebooks.  We ended our subscription last year when the cost was going to quadruple so I can't speak to any changes they've made to the platform since they renamed it.  

Amy Herman
Library Faculty | Olympic College
1600 Chester Avenue | Bremerton, WA 98337 
aherman at olympic.edu | 360-475-7256




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Subject: [External] [Wactclc-alma] O'Reilly platform authentication

Do any of you folks have a subscription to the O'Reilly ebooks? We're trying to decide between authenticating via EZProxy and authenticating via email validation.  As I understand it, with email validation, O'Reilly creates individual user accounts using the institutional email address as the user name.  This method allows users to download ebooks for offline reading via the O'Reilly mobile app-- kind of the same way that some ebook publishers (e.g. Overdrive) require people to have an existing Adobe ID to download EPUB-format ebooks for offline reading.

If you subscribe to O'Reilly, I'd appreciate hearing what you decided to do and why. 

Kirsti S. Thomas
Library Technical Service Manager
Seattle Colleges
kirsti.thomas at seattlecolleges.edu