[IUG] EBSCO's RSS Feed and WAM

["D'Aversa, Maria" <DAversa at morainevalley dot edu>]

List Members,

We use Web Access Management (WAM) to enable our students to access the library's electronic databases from off campus. We are currently working with a faculty member who would like to use the RSS Feed/search alert feature in EBSCO’s Academic Search Elite database to populate a reading list in his Blackboard course. We are doing a search, creating an RSS feed in EBSCO, and then using that feed with a feed parser to create java script in the Blackboard course.  We have no problem with this on campus where our IP range is recognized by EBSCO.  However, from off campus, we cannot open any articles, because the persistent URLs from EBSCO do not redirect through the WAM.  So, the RSS feed works.  We can see the list of the titles in Blackboard, but a student would not be able to actually open up the articles and read them (which is the point).  

Has anyone faced this problem?   

Thanks,

Maria D’Aversa

Dept. Chair, Library

Librarian, Technical Services

Moraine Valley Community College

9000 W. College Parkway

Palos Hills, IL 60465

Phone: 708-974-5262

Email: DAversa at morainevalley dot edu