What subscriber authentication methods will the RDA Toolkit support?
The RDA Toolkit supports three subscriber authentication methods. Login & Password—This type of account has a login and password for authentication. This is the typical method for solo-user accounts, but can be used for multi-user accounts as well. Multi-user accounts that use the login & password method will use one institutional login & password for subscription access for the entire institution in conjunction with a separate unique individual login & password for each user within that institution. Using this method, each user would have to log in twice. For solo-user accounts the user would have to log into their Profile with the same username and password they use to log into the Toolkit itself. To avoid double logins for their users, most institutional accounts prefer to use either IP range or referring URL authentication methods. IP Range—This type of account avoids the institutional login and password by giving the Co-Publisher a list of IP ranges that are approved to grant acce
