Introduction

To enhance research productivity, it's important to have access to a broad range of online resources that are available nationwide. The Korean Access Federation (KAFE) is a national identity federation that facilitates the sharing of such resources and fosters collaborative research endeavors. Similar to how travelers can visit other countries using their passports issued by their home countries, researchers affiliated with KAFE institutions can use their organizational credentials (i.e., username and password) to gain access to various online resources offered by other institutions.

By providing a secure solution for accessing online resources in the research and education fields, KAFE enables research institutions to:

• share scholarly information from individual institutions
• facilitate the sharing of online resources between institutions
• securely access to online resources outside of each institutions
• freely utilize the collaborations tools offered by KREONET/KISTI

KAFE ensures the secure exchange of user information using an international standard (SAML 2.0) and adheres to the Personal Information Protection Act in Korea. The federation is recognized as an ID Federation initiative in Korea by REFEDS, the Research and Education Federations group.

KAFE is a member of the eduGAIN inter-federation service, which enables secure access to online resources across various research and education communities.

Benefits

Through KAFE, members can securely access and share digital resources across the nation.

Researchers, faculties, staffs and students

• Access a diverse range of federated online resources using your organizational credentials from home.
• Streamline the user registration process for service providers.
• Gain access to online resources with a single sign-on.

Service providers

• Reduce implementation costs for user authentication and maintenance costs for personal information.
• Speed up time-to-market by having a large number of federated users.

Institutions

• Effortlessly access a wide range of online resources for research and education.
• Facilitate the joint use of online resources between institutions.
• Minimize the risk of personal information leakage by keeping the information solely at your home organization.

Contact

If you have any inquiries, please use the Q&A board or send an email to support@kafe.or.kr.