Nowadays remote access to electronic information resources is a standard service provided by most libraries. There are several technologies in use including Shibboleth which is to become the most widely used remote access method. Since SFX normally works with licensed electronic resources, it is already prepared for cooperation with these technologies. In the ideal case user has already been logged in before the attempt to access licensed content. But even when trying to access the licensed resource without implicit privileges SFX is able to navigate user efficiently and enable him to work with requested source of information.

Shibboleth is a standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner. In the Czech Republic CESNET is running eduID.cz production federation and czTesFed test federation. EBSCO, ThomsonReuters, ebrary, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell are currently in the process of joining eduID.cz federation. There are nine organizations (eight universities and CESNET) who are eduID.cz members and about ten other organizations (research libraries, public libraries, universities) plan to join eduID.cz in 2009. AKVŠ working group is organizing Shibboleth authentication rollout in Czech university libraries.