Muse Search FAQ
Muse Search
${MUSE_HOME}/web/Users
.properties. This method is obsolete now, so all the entries inside it of the form “application_id.navigationManagerMode” should be set to “none” (application_id.navigationManagerMode=none). This operation must be done after the values set here were merged with the ones from application level (see point B above).The MNM entries can be set:
A) at the individual Source Package level
B) additional MNM entries can be set at the Application level
A) Setting MNM entries at the individual Source Package level:
The MNM entries can be set at individual Source Package level using the Muse Source Console (MSC) as follows:
– login into the MSC
– select an Application using the radio button
– select the “Sources” section
– go to “Configure” section
– click the “Advanced” button near the Source Package in the list that is to be edited
– the value for MNM must be entered in the “Link URLs” field
B) Setting additional MNM entries at application level
The MNM entries can be set at the Application level using the Muse Source Console (MSC) as follows:
– login into the MSC
– select an Application using the radio button
– select the “General Settings” section
– go to “Navigation Management” section
– the value for the MNM at the Application level must be entered in the “Link URLs” field
Note*: The MNM entries at the Application level are additional to the ones set for individual Source Package level. So for a Source Package the MNM entries set up for that Source Package plus the MNM entries set up at Application level (A + B above) will be used.
Note**: The MNM entries at the Application level are usually used when many sources at the Application level are using a WAM (Web Access Management) software such as ezProxy as this provides a way to add a MNM entry that is to be used by multiple sources. Except in the case of WAM software it is not recommended that MNM entries be set at the Application level.
MuseGlobal provides the following method for search and retrieval of EBSCOhost content: EBSCO Integration Toolkit (EIT)
This is a SOAP-based Web Service approach which provides the optimal combination of performance and completeness. You can find the EIT Source Packages by searching in your Muse Console’s “Add Sources” section in the “IDs Containing” field for the term EIT. EIT SPs have Source IDs which start with the string EBSCOEIT.
URLs:
The HTTP Source Packages for EBSCO search on the URL
http://search.ebscohost.com/. The EIT Source Packages use
http://eit.ebscohost.com/Services/SearchService.asmx as the Home URL and Search URL.
AUTHENTICATION:
Authentication for the EBSCOEIT Source Packages is two-fold.
1) Authentication for search and retrieval can done by user/pw (with the USER_NAME
and USER_PASSWORD
fields of the profile) or IP (with the CUSTOM_PARAMETERS
field of the profile).
For search/retrieval authentication by IP, a value must be placed in the CUSTOM_PARAMETERS tag from the EBSCOEIT* source profile. Again, this is used to connect
to and search
a certain database. Using this IP authentication, you may be authenticated to a number of databases.
Example :
where : IP_ADDRESS=your IP which authenticates to EIT.
Please note that your EBSCO account must be specifically enabled in order to use of EIT. The user/pw used for connecting to http://search.ebscohost.com/ will not work for EIT. Also note that the IP_PROFILE will be either eit
or eitws
; — this string matches the 3rd section of your 3-part EIT authentication string (ex. s123456.main.eit or s123456.main.eitws). Please check with EBSCO if you are not sure which it is.
2) The aforementioned authentication by IP or user/pw gives us access to the EBSCOEIT API, but it does not provide successful link navigation on the record links obtained.
For this, the PROXY_HOST
and PROXY_PORT
in the profile must be configured. IMPORTANT
: authentication to EBSCO for link navigation is only done by IP.
Example :
So, in conclusion, 2 IP authentication settings are needed: one (user/pw or IP) for accessing and searching the EBSCOEIT database desired and the other one (proxy IP) to successfully navigate on the record links obtained.
Questions about your EIT account status should be referred to Gregory Julien [GregoryJulien@ebscohost.com].