Symptoms
When signing into Mendeley (id.elsevier.com) under the Virginia Commonwealth University organization, an error is returned:
Environment
id.elsevier.com
Mendeley
Solution
You must Create and Sign In with a personal email. VCU does not have a contract with Elsevier for the Mendeley product.
Cause
- Elsevier uses InCommon to provide SSO access
- VCU is a member of InCommon
- All members will appear in the list of Organizations for a product that uses InCommon
- VCU has not configured SSO for Elsevier because we do not have a contract for any products which would use it
- Elsevier returns a confusing message to "contact your administrator," but there is no administrator because there is no contract