Enabling personalisation features
How to enable ‘My Research’ using persistent identifiers in SSO
My Research
This feature provides users with the ability to save searches and a viewing history of records or newspapers between sessions. It is only available for institutions that choose to use a non-anonymous authentication mechanism within SSO.
Anonymous Users
Personalisation features like My Research will not function for anonymous users as there is no way for us to reliably identify these users across sessions. Users visiting via IP authentication are always anonymous. SSO authenticated users are also fully anonymous when a transient identifier is supplied during authentication.
Non-Anonymous Users
SSO authentication provides the opportunity for your institution to add a persistent identifier that lets us identify a user between sessions whilst maintaining their privacy.
When your institution configures this extra identifier, the end user is still anonymous to us. We do not have access to any personally identifiable information like name or email address. Instead we are provided with a pseudonymous marker that lets us identify the user between sessions, allowing us to provide additional extra research features that persist across sessions.
If you would like to configure persistent identifiers for users to provide access to these personalisation features, please raise a ticket with our Support team (support@thesocialhistoryarchive.com).
The documents below will help your institution’s IT department with enabling My Research:
https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Documents/PersistentIdentifiers https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CONCEPT/pages/928645231/NameIdentifiers