In interviews with researchers HighWire found that a major pain point was getting access to subscribed materials from off campus. Proxy servers and VPNs are just way more complicated to use than most researchers and students working at home will tolerate. Google Scholar and HighWire have been working on a solution that notes a user’s access on campus and handshakes to make that same access work off campus. The new service requires no configuration from users. It just works.
