MuseKnowledge is thrilled to announce a new release of The Muse Platform, Version 2.8.0.1, which brings the latest features for its tools used by customers worlwide to power their library portals.
Important accessability features were introduced in the MuseKnowledge Federated Search and Discover applications, such as Text2Speech and holdings information. The Text2Speech functionality was added to help people with vision impairments. More exactly the results metadata can be read into natural-sounding speech.
A Muse LinkResolver application was introduced to offer seamless access to electronic full-text content across vendor platforms for a provided citation, relying on the OpenURL protocol.
The updates from version 2.8.0.1 include new features and enhencements for the following components:
For a full list of new features and functions, please visit our product website https://www.edulib.com/news/muse-release-2-8-0-1/.
MuseKnowledge is pleased to announce the release of Version 2.8.0.0 of The Muse Platform, its powerful suite of digital library and information management tools, to serve partners and customers in creating custom content solutions that propel education and innovation outcomes.
The Muse Platform Version 2.8.0.0 now includes MuseKnowledge Discover, a full-featured and highly configurable index searching application, powered by the Muse Central Index containing article and title metadata harvested from top publishers and information providers.
MuseKnowledge Discover includes robust index search and post-search capabilities to support efficient, comprehensive content discovery across full-text databases, citation databases, local digital collections and open access e-resources. The application is completely configurable through user-friendly Muse Administration Consoles, and fully interoperable with the LMS or any learning tool through the LTI standard and the Muse API.
Important updates to other key functions in The Muse Platform in Version 2.8.0.0 include a range of new features and enhancements to the following components:
For a full list of new features and functions, please visit our product website https://www.edulib.com/news/muse-release-2-8-0-0/.
Craiova, Romania, 1st February 2021
EduLib S.R.L., the exclusive development partner for the Muse Knowledge technology platform, announced the launch of its newly redesigned website. Over the past year, the EduLib team has been working to build a new website that better reflects its development and support service offerings, improves navigation to its technical materials and provides a refreshed look and feel to welcome and engage its partners and customers.
EduLib’s goal with its new website is to provide its partners and customers with up-to-date and in-depth technical content about the Muse Knowledge platform and the range of Muse development, support and technical services exclusively provided by the EduLib team. EduLib will be updating its new website regularly to reflect all the latest product information and technical resources for the Muse Knowledge platform and related offerings.
EduLib’s goal with its new website is to provide its partners and customers with up-to-date and in-depth technical content about the Muse Knowledge platform and the range of Muse development, support and technical services exclusively provided by the EduLib team. EduLib will be updating its new website regularly to reflect all the latest product information and technical resources for the Muse Knowledge platform and related offerings.
EduLib is excited to share its new website with you and your feedback is important to us. Please share any questions, comments or concerns to this email form here.
Craiova, Romania – June 4, 2020
We are excited to announce the release of a new MuseKnowledge™ Proxy version 5.2, which is available for download with an extended 90-day free trial period now.
Libraries are working harder than ever during the COVID-19 global crisis to serve their communities through their virtual digital library platforms. MuseKnowledge™ Proxy is software that helps libraries securely and seamlessly manage remote access to their digital library resources for virtual users. It does this by validating the remote library user’s identity with digital content providers, so they’re granted access to the library’s full collection of e-resources no matter where they are.
Our new version of MuseKnowledge™ Proxy features critical updates to guarantee the security and continuity of remote user under the new "SameSite=None; Secure" Cookie handling policies required for Chrome80 and other browsers. As ongoing improvements to enable privacy and security across the web, these new SameSite policies affect all web applications that use cookies and are now fully supported in MuseKnowledge™ Proxy across the Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge browsers.
In addition, MuseKnowledge™ Proxy Version 5.2 brings significant features and improvements to support easier, faster setup and administration of MuseKnowledge™ Proxy in Self-Hosted environments:
Find a detailed list of all new version capabilities in the MuseKnowledge™ Proxy 5.2 Release Notes.
To support libraries during COVID-19 global crisis, MuseKnowledge™ Proxy Trial periods are now extended from 30 days to 90 days. Request your Trial License Key by filling in our simple trial request form here.
Craiova, Romania, July 21, 2018.
Muse Knowledge announces the newest release of its flagship authentication gateway, MuseKnowledge™ Proxy 5.0, with significant updates and additions to configuration options, improved operational ease and a new style templates for an improved look and feel.
Muse Knowledge™ Proxy is a highly customizable cross-platform proxy server solution that provides a simple, secure way for libraries to manage access to web-based licensed databases for their remote users. Companies use it to allow access for their employees from outside their computer network to internal resources. It has been used successfully and safely for over 15 years in the Muse Knowledge Search Platform and is now available as a stand-alone solution for user authentication management for thousands of online sources.
The detailed list of changes is available in the MuseKnowledge™ Proxy 5.0 Release Notes and we offer a Free 30-Day Trial period to fully evaluate the new version of MuseKnowledge™ Proxy. You can request a Trial License Key by simply filling in our trial request form here.
Muse Knowledge Application 6.0 is our latest web interface that replaces the older and well known MuseSearch Application series, used for more than a decade to search thousands of e-resources on the Internet.
Built on a whole new concept with a brand new look, the new interface keeps all the traditional features of MuseSearch plus a long list of new ones. The Muse Core API was extended and lightened to deliver a faster and more responsive web interface and is now a Single Page Application that uses the latest web technologies like AngularJS, Boostrap, and Font Awesome. This delivers a thoroughly updated and more responsive user experience.
The new MuseKnowledge™ Application is suitable to be used for any device, phone, tablet or PC. It is integration-ready, and playing it inside a parent site is now easier, be it a simple container or a more complex one like a Liferay Portal. It is embedded in both iOS and Android native code, allowing users ultimate flexibility to access more MuseKnowledge™ Applications from their mobile devices.
Last but not least, the Muse Console for Application Administration has many improvements in sync with the new MuseKnowledge(TM) features and makes administering any older MuseSearch Applications much easier.
As usual we offer a Free 30 Day Trial period to fully evaluate the new version of the Muse Knowledge Application. You can request a Trial License Key by filling in the request form here.
A new version of MuseKnowledge™ Proxy, 4.4, is now ready and available for download, train and purchase/upgrade. Some of the new features, improvements and bug fixes are mentioned below.
Multi-tenant environments using the same DNS host name for all tenants, but individual IPs for each one are now more efficiently handled as a chaining request to proxy itself on the different IP is minimized for the first source request only. The follow-up rewritten requests are not chained. The outbound IP is set directly to the one assigned for the tenant. This scenario is minimizing the cost for SSL certificates which are now more often required.
Starting with version 4.4 Muse Proxy creates access log files in the same configurable format as that used by standard web servers such as Apache HTTP Server, format which can be set via a % style pattern – an extension to the Common Logging format.
Central Authentication Service (CAS) and Microsoft Azure AD OpenID Connect authentication are now added to the possible Single Sign-on integration scenarios. The Administrator Console is offering guidelines for treating the special case of Azure AD where a different callback type is needed.
The direct authentication SQL module now supports SQL statements to cover more complex scenarios – the old approach of using a single table is still working.
In case of HMAC and IP login modules there’s no end user ID to check against a database and hence nothing to be written in the log file, however, in case of various integrations a special parameter could be received in the request for tracking purposes and it is now possible to configure it.
This new version is introducing redirection to remote Sources depending on the end-user IP (non-proxied links) and on the source ID.
Informal ranges of IPs for authentication to a MuseKnowledge™ Proxy application and for source redirection rules are now supported. All types of rules can be mixed for ALLOW/DENY: CIDR, patterns, exact IP and ranges.
After a mnm.jar update, the existing navigation sessions continue to work with the FIND/REPLACE filters.
The necessary upgrades steps to be done are listed at the end of the MuseKnowledge™ Proxy Setup in case an upgrade is performed over an existing installation.
The detailed list of changes is available in the Muse Knowledge Proxy Release Notes PDF Document and the new features are described in the manuals that are part of the distribution. As usual we offer a Free 30 Day Trial period to fully evaluate the new version of MuseKnowledge Proxy. You can request a Trial License Key by simply filling in our trial request form here.
On Tuesday, 24th May 2016, Cairo-Egypt, opened the 11th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, eLearning Africa (ELA) 2016, under the theme “Making Vision Reality”.
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. —Joel A. Barker
We are proud to announce representation at this esteemed conference by LIMS Egypt, the master strategic partner for Muse Knowledge in the MENA region.
E-Learning Africa is the largest and most important event for the promotion of development, improving education, and raising the quality of training in the field of ICT across Africa. We are honored to support, serve and contribute in our small way to these nations’ vision. We might not change the world, but we hope to help make it a better place!
The outstanding features from the new 4.3 version of MuseKnowledge™ Proxy are now ready to be used through the availability of this version for download, trial and purchase/upgrade.
To widen the authentication integration scenarios MuseKnowledge™ Proxy now supports a wide range of OAuth, OAuth2, OpenID Connect Single Sign on its entry point. Although the initial target was for Google authentication more than a dozen of OAuth providers and also a generic OAuth client implementation can be configured for authentication to the providers that are not diverging from the usual practices in OAuth requests and responses. The out of the box OAuth support is for: BitBucket, DropBox, Facebook, Foursquare, Github, Google, LinkedIn, ORCiD, Paypal, Strava, Twitter, Vk, Windows Live, Word Press, Yahoo. Note that Google authentication ensures authentication with both the public gmail.com domain as well as Google hosted institutions via Google Apps for Education, for example.
To cover the cases in which we need to use an existent HTTP service or even a HTML login form existent in the intranet for authentication into a MuseKnowledge™ Proxy application the development team created the External HTTP Authentication Login Module. Upon authentication MuseKnowledge™ Proxy logon page is presented and the request to the remote HTTP login end-point is made as part of an extract and navigate scenario taking a success/fail decision based on elements from the page.
Changes in the source presentation layer allows for source categorization in multiple classes (areas). Multiple areas such as Subject, Vendor, Flat, Alphabetical (A-Z) can be defined and these are displayed in different tabs. Integration with MuseSearch pass-through is also possible if db-list mappings are defined. The MuseProxyFoundation application interface has improved its look and feel to accommodate the categorization.
Three new Administration Console pages SSO Authentication, HMAC Link Generator and Evaluate Regex are available in order to help on with OAuth SSO, HMAC testing and with simulating how RegEx filters works.
HAProxy PROXY Protocol v1 and X-Forwarded-For are supported by MuseKnowledge™ Proxy in order to get the end-user IP from load balancers that do not spoof/masquerade the end-user IP in the TPC/IP packets but have other logical means of sending the IP.
An alternative extract and navigation implementation based on the Apache HTTPClient is available and can be selected on a source by source basis. This is an alternative to using the JDK URLConnectionlibrary which does not offer lower level access to source IP and we were forced to perform an extra request.
Follow-up links without authentication (session cookie) such as for the preflight OPTIONS where the CORS standard requires the browser to avoid sending authorization data (hence no cookie session) are supported based on a new source configuration element.
The detailed list of changes is available in the Muse Knowledge Proxy Release Notes PDF Document and the new features are described in the manuals that are part of the distribution. As usual we offer a Free 30 Day Trial period to fully evaluate the new version of MuseKnowledge Proxy. You can request a Trial License Key by simply filling in the trial form here.
MuseGlobal is pleased to announce the Egyptian Knowledge Bank, MuseKnowledge Training Session in Bucharest, Romania, taking place from 30 September – 6 October 2016 at the Pullman Bucharest World Trade Center.
This advanced training session is being conducted by MuseGlobalfor the esteemed leaders and managers of the Egyptian National S&T Information Network and the Egyptian University Libraries Consortium, as the organizations directing the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) Project. MuseGlobal is honored to host this advanced training session in conjunction with its partners, LIMS Egypt, Asset Technology Group, Panworld Education, and Wazner.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi launched the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) on the 9th of January 2016 to form the “biggest digital library in the world” that is comprised of content from 26 leading global publishers, including National Geographic, Springer Nature, Discovery, Elsevier, Cambridge, Oxford, Reuters, Britannica and more. The Egyptian Knowledge Bank provides access to scientific, technical, medical, and education content covering all areas of knowledge and education. The EKB is comprised of four sub-portals to address the specific needs of key groups of Egyptian citizens: children, students, researchers, and general readers.
