Ready-made training materials
Polished, ready-to-use guides and walkthroughs so your team and your scholars get full value from the system from day one - no need to write your own onboarding.
For library teams
Portium connects your scholars to every publisher you subscribe to - on campus or off, modern platform or legacy - through a managed secure proxy and passwordless single sign-on. You see exactly what's used, and Portium equips your institution with the tools to lead in research.


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Connect via SSO and proxy
Every paper the library pays for opens on the first try - modern publisher or legacy, wherever your scholars are working. Portium's proxy is recognized on the site they're browsing, so no extra sign-in is needed, and where the publisher supports it, passwordless SSO recognizes your institution - and even your individual scholar - in a single tap, with no separate registration at every site on the internet. Nothing to install, no passwords to remember - and the “I can't access” queue goes quiet.


Good to know
No. A scholar can be at home, on a train, or abroad. Signing in through us, they get seamless access and the institutional licence on mobile and on any internet-connected device, with no extra install. Beyond the seamless access, the scholar also gets the dedicated library tools - paper suggestions, saving references and building citations, and personalization of their library content.
Manage users, reach every scholar, and prepare guides that actually reach your people - and see usage statistics that turn subscription renewals into a clear decision, taking load off your team.
Users, approvals, live usage and notices your whole team shares - all organized in one place instead of scattered across tools, taking the load off your inbox.

Good to know
From the library-team admin panel - users, approvals, live usage and scholar notices, all in the same place, so managing institutional access never means juggling tools or opening IT tickets.
Accessibility
Your team publishes help for each publisher's site, and scholars open it in one click from the Portium toolbar - your guidance, in your words, right where they're reading. Fewer repeat questions, and everything clear and accessible.


Setup and security reviews, publisher connections, onboarding, the features you request, and every scholar's access problem - all run as a managed cloud service, under your institution's policies. Even a library without a dedicated IT team runs full institutional access from day one.

Good to know
Everything technical between scholars and publishers - setup, security reviews, publisher connections, onboarding, and the features you ask for - run as a managed cloud service, under agreements that keep your institution and its values in control.
Identity and access is the kind of system that should never be improvised - and it's what Portium already runs for your institution every day. The full lifecycle of every identity is automated: people are onboarded, moved and offboarded straight from your authoritative systems, provisioned into your directories, and signed in through standards-based single sign-on and MFA - so access is never late and never lingers. Roles and attributes hold everyone at least-privilege, certification campaigns prove access stays appropriate, and every action is written to a revision-safe audit trail. It's ready for the regulators (ISO, SOC and local regulations in EU, US and Japan, encrypted end to end - and it's built to your principles: Portium answers to your institution, with no backdoors and your data kept where your policy and region require. And it's easy, because it's managed: we tailor the deployment, the connectors and the role model to your institution in the onboarding agreement, then run it for you. Everything an institution's identity and access platform must do, in one place:

Good to know
A complete Identity & Access Management (IAM) and Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) platform. Beyond connecting your users to research resources, it governs identity for the whole institution - lifecycle, provisioning, SSO and MFA, role- and attribute-based access, certification and audit - in one managed system.
Polished, ready-to-use guides and walkthroughs so your team and your scholars get full value from the system from day one - no need to write your own onboarding.
Capture exactly the fields you need for cleaner statistics and procurement.
Including from your phone.
Export usage statistics and reports in a click.
Onboard many users at once.
Restrict access for specific scholars or groups.
Including RTL, LTR and Japanese.
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