InAcademia allows you to request verification in real-time using trusted authentication services without having to subscribe to, or offer your services through, a market place or third-party portal. The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) is the national library of the Netherlands. Driven by the power of the written word they further intellectual development, proficiency and creativity in the...
Why InAcademia?
Whether student railcards, free or discounted software and services, or even clothes and concert tickets, the academic community and commercial organisations work together to bring services to the student and academic population to help them optimise their academic experience without breaking their budgets. Inside a physical store it is reasonably easy to reliably identify students and staff through identity cards, passes or union cards but for online services it can be much harder and more expensive to do.
Requiring students to submit scanned copies of their identity cards or other documentation takes effort: it requires high security measures for transfer and storage, and creates an administrative burden to manually check and verify the documentation supplied, making the process of offering special deals time consuming and costly.
This can create a barrier to offering discounts to research and education, thus limiting the number of services that can be accessed by the academic community.
InAcademia removes slow, costly and manual validation processes, by providing merchants with a quick, easy, reliable and secure way to verify identities, provided the user is registered with a participating eduGAIN Identity Provider.