Institutions collaborate to allow secure access across continents.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-11 January 2005-LSE: Institutions collaborate to allow secure access across continents(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01112005 Researchers at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Columbia University are using a new internet technology which allows students and faculty around the globe to share their scholarly materials.

The technology removes the need for repeated authentication of individual users, whilst protecting their privacy and the valuable intellectual property of the universities. LSE and Columbia are using the new technology to share teaching and library resources in anthropology, as part of a collaborative project called Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching (aka 'DART'). It offers much wider...