The Athens system provides access management for subscription services supplied by publishers and subscription agents.
An access management system provided by Eduserv. At the University of Kent, Athens authenticates user access to some of the online resources available via the Templeman Library.
Developed by EduServ with the support of JISC funding, Athens combines a online authentication service with a online service access management interface (see above). Its features are a 'single password sign-on' to multiple online services, together with a distributed management of user accounts. See http://www.eduserv.org.uk/athens
An access management system used to authenticate and authorise users for access to online subscription services, including UK higher and further education ( http://www.athensams.net/).
ATHENS is an authentication service. It enables controlled access to subscription services provided by third party suppliers. It is made available to the UK education & research community via the NISS and BIDS services.
The Athens service was developed by Eduserv to provide single sign-on access to a collection of online information services. See http://www.athensams.net/. See also Single Sign-On.
a central authentication scheme for UK Higher Education which attempts to provide access to many electronic resources using a single password. See the Athens page for more information.
An authentication system, providing usernames and passwords in order to authenticate users. See the Athens website.
Athens (Access Management System) provides access to numerous datasets and information services throughout the UK and overseas. With a user name and password the end user can have access to a range of agreements that their Institution has subscribed to. (See www.athens.ac.uk for further details).
Athens is an Identity Management service that is run by Eduserv. It provides user authentication and authorisation for over 3 million users in the health and education sectors. Further details: http://www.athensams.net
The Athens Access Management System (AMS) controls access to web- based subscription services. Project partner in the DCOCE project. (See some background to Athens' role in this project). Service provider to higher education and healthorganisations for access to many web-based (and some non-web based) information services, searchable databases etc. Users obtain an Athens username and password and can then access themultiple services. However, see AthensDA for 'devolved authentication' back to the user's home institution. http://www.athensams.net/ "Athens is, fundamentally, a central repository of organisations, usernames and passwords with associated rights."
Athens is an authentication system that allows users in a given institution to access all of the databases available to that institution using a single password, instead of having to use different passwords for each database.