“Like many of you, I have spent a lot of time manually checking publisher links to confirm that subscribed resources are actually accessible to patrons. The frustrating part is usually not the obvious outages, but the silent ones—when a platform change or authentication shift breaks access without anyone noticing until users report it.
I built LibPages Lighthouse to help automate these routine electronic resource access checks.
It runs from the library’s own environment and validates access to publisher platforms the same way a patron would, confirming that entitled resources are reachable and functioning correctly across EZproxy, OpenAthens, and direct IP access.
It is intentionally lightweight and publisher-friendly:
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no scraping
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no bulk downloading
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no automated harvesting
It simply verifies that access works as expected.
It also includes a feature that alerts libraries when a resource is approaching its access expiry date, helping avoid unexpected lapses in availability.
More information is available here:
https://libpages.com
https://libpages.com
If this isn’t relevant to you, I’d appreciate it if you could pass it along to anyone who might benefit from it.
Best regards,
Hosam
Founder, LibPages Lighthouse”
Hosam
Founder, LibPages Lighthouse”
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