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Shibboleth is a single sign-on system—basically, it lets you use one username and password to access multiple websites or services, especially in universities and research institutions.
Imagine you're a student or researcher. Instead of creating new accounts for every academic database, library, or online journal, Shibboleth lets you log in once using your university credentials and then get access to all those services automatically, without needing to log in again for each one.
It’s like having one key that opens many doors, as long as those doors recognise your key.
Many online services are not freely available to the general public. To facilitate authentication across different academic online services, many universities use an authentication and authorization infrastructure based on Shibboleth.
- EndNoteOnline does to some extent use Shibboleth, please see the EndNoteOnline help for more information.
- EndNote Click can also use Shibboleth for connection to libraries when off-campus. Please see the EndNote Click homepage for more information.
- If you have access to/use EndNote your institution probably provides access to Web of Science.
Institutional subscribers using Shibboleth for identity management can use that authentication method to access Web of Science products and EndNote® online. - When you access EndNote features that involve retrieving full-text research articles from academic databases (like JSTOR, ScienceDirect, etc.), those databases may use Shibboleth to verify your access rights via your institution.