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The service promotes digital authentication leveraging an existing single-sign-on infrastructure through one鈥檚 home institution, while maintaining an environment that protects personal data and privacy.</p> <p>The direction and implementation for the service came from the RA21 Initiative, a joint project of the International Association of STM Publishers and the National Information Standards Organization. While the origin of the effort was in the scholarly publishing and library communities, the applicability of SeamlessAccess is for all parties that want to use federated identity as part of their authentication and authorization workflows.</p> <h2 id="seamlessaccess-guiding-principles">SeamlessAccess Guiding Principles</h2> <p>The Guiding Principles for SeamlessAccess continue from the <a href="https://ra21.org/index.php/what-is-ra21/">RA21 project</a>:</p> <ol> <li>The user experience for researchers will be as seamless as possible, intuitive and consistent across varied systems, and meet evolving expectations.</li> <li>The solution will work effectively regardless of the researcher鈥檚 starting point, physical location, and preferred device.</li> <li>The solution will be consistent with emerging privacy regulations, will avoid requiring researchers to create yet another ID, and will achieve an optimal balance between security and usability.</li> <li>The system will achieve end-to-end traceability, providing a robust, widely adopted mechanism for detecting fraud that occurs at institutions, vendor systems, and publishing platforms.</li> <li>The customer will not be burdened with administrative work or expenses related to implementation and maintenance. 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