Chapter 5. Other Delivery Solutions: Google’s Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA) and Entitlement Checks in Content Syndication Partnerships with ResearchGate

Abstract

Google Scholar is one of the most popular academic search engines used by researchers. As a result, Google’s Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA), which enables researchers to authenticate content from CASA-supported publishers even when off campus, is an important delivery method. Another site highly visited by researchers is the scholarly collaboration network ResearchGate. Publishers such as Springer Nature and Wiley are syndicating their content to ResearchGate, which leads to yet another new method of authentication based on the ResearchGate profile. Chapter 5 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 58, no. 6), “Other Delivery Solutions: Google’s Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA) and Entitlement Checks in Content Syndication Partnerships with ResearchGate,” will discuss both of these solutions.