OCLC WorldShare Management Service and the OpenAthens redirector

This guide will help you configure OCLC WMS to use the OpenAthens Redirector.

While our service desk will always try to be helpful, they can only support the OpenAthens end. Information was correct at the time of writing.

Prerequisites

Access to your WorldShare admin pages
Access to the OpenAthens administration area at the domain level

Method

Look up your redirector prefix

Log in to OpenAthens Compass as the domain administrator.
Go to Resources > Redirector link generator. A pop-up window opens.

Pop-up window titled 'Redirector link generator'. Advisory text reads 'Redirector URLs can be created by adding (example URL) as a prefix to the target URL, or using the tool below'. Following that are a text field labeled 'Enter target URL' and a button labeled 'Generate link'. There is a 'Close' button at the bottom of the window.

Copy the redirector prefix displayed in the information box. This is the part that looks like https://go.openathens.net/redirector/yourdomain.com?url=.

Add your Redirector prefix to WorldShare

Once you have the prefix, add it to WorldShare as a proxy server. Although the redirector is not a proxy, we can use WorldShare’s proxy access function to insert the redirector prefix so that the redirector works for compatible resources.

For details, see the WorldShare documentation Integrate OpenAthens proxy with the WorldCat Knowledge Base.