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Latest News
- OpenAthens Extends Federation Support
- Shibboleth 1.3 End of Life
- Aiming international
- Announcing OpenAthens SP 1.3.2 release
- Presentations from OpenAthens Seminars available
- New OpenAthens Service Status updates
- Case study: Bath Spa University chooses OpenAthens LA 2.0
- OpenAthens Training days announced for March and April
- Introducing OpenAthens LA 2.0
- OpenAthens LA 2.0 enables single sign-on to Google Apps
- OpenAthens SP version 1.3 is now available
Access and Identity Management
Eduserv's Access and Identity Management services help organisations to:
- manage users' identity and entitlement information
- enable secure, easy access to online resources through a single username and password (single sign-on).
Today, the majority of UK higher and further education and hundreds of non-academic organisations such as the UK NHS, Phillips Research, the National History Museum and the US Department of Defense, choose our OpenAthens technology to ensure millions of users can access online resources from around 150 publishers.
Take a look at just some of our existing customers.
Benefits of OpenAthens technology
At the core of our service is the standards-compliant OpenAthens framework, which extends the capability of the widely-adopted Athens technology to support open standard identity protocols. These include SAML (including Shibboleth implementations used in academic access management federations such as the UK Access Management Federation), OpenID and Information Cards.
Other benefits include:
- Flexible - implement the technologies and open standards you need to access the markets you want to reach
- Future proofed - you can adopt new technologies as and when it makes sense to do so
- Cost effective - lower the cost and impact on your internal IT resources of implementing new technologies
- Minimise risks - reduce the risk in adopting new technologies and open standards
- Fully supported - maintain continuity and quality of service to users accessing online resources
Find out more about our range of Access and Identity services for academic, publishing, medical, public sector and commercial customers.
We also work with partners in the publishing and resource industry to provide access and identity mangement solutions.
Users can access resources their organisation has subscribed to either directly from their organisation's own web pages or via the MyAthens portal.
Please get in touch if you would like any more information about our Access and Identity services.