Access management

SAMS 5.1: the complete access and subscription management system

SAMSSAMS is the most widely-used access management system in its class, protecting and growing digital revenues for more than 180 sites worldwide.

SAMS provides a powerful, flexible and fully customisable solution specifically developed for publishers who have to handle the complex authentication issues created when students, academics and professionals access publisher platforms through institutional subscriptions. It supports access models for journals, ebooks, reference works, directories and scholarly publishing.

Key features of SAMS 5.1

Sell different publications in different ways using the same central system:

  • Date limited subscriptions
  • Duration limited subscriptions
  • Perpetual subscriptions
  • Grace periods
  • Trials
  • Token/voucher based access
  • Concurrency limits
  • Pay-per-view
  • Free limited access
  • Marketing and service emails targeting users based on defined subscription parameters

Work more efficiently with extensive management reports automatically delivered to your inbox:

  • Expiring and unrenewed subscriptions
  • Conversions from free trials
  • Inactive subscriptions
  • Ad-hoc data report
  • Duplicate IP addresses
  • Customer data changes

Provide the information that librarians need:

  • ICOLC usage reports
  • COUNTER usage reports

Safeguard your publications with reliable end user authentication:

  • IP address ranges
  • Username and password
  • Athens
  • Shibboleth
  • HTTP referrer

Included in SAMS 5.1

  • Free upgrades available throughout the life of the solution
  • E-commerce module integrates with clients’ choice of payment service gateways
  • COUNTER-compliant statistics, with SUSHI integration
  • Full support for Shibboleth 2
  • Extensive, open, well documented XML web services API. Proxy solution (SGK) available to control existing websites (can be deployed within as little as a day)