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ILL to implement Central Authentication Service

by lener, posted on May 6, 2014

Interlibrary Loan’s ILLiad request system will begin using the university’s Central Authentication Service.

In preparation for the conversion, ILLiad will be down on Friday, May 16, 2014, and may have limited access over the weekend. Full service restoration is planned for Monday, May 19, 2014.

Central Authentication Service (CAS) is a central logon service that enables you to access multiple applications by typing your PID and password credentials one time. Once logged into CAS, you can visit any web application that uses CAS authentication without having to log on again. CAS is available to web applications that use the Virginia Tech PID for authentication.

After the changeover, users will login to their ILLiad account using their Virginia Tech PID and password.  A separate ILLiad account and password is no longer needed.

CAS authentication has been requested by users for a long time and Interlibrary Loan is happy to finally implement the feature.

If you have any questions, please contact the Interlibrary Loan office at ill@vt.edu or 540-231-6344