We make accessing knowledge through a single sign-on easy

We help more than 2,600 organizations with 5 million users in over 65 countries have access to the knowledge they want when they want it *Flexible, user-friendly SSO solution offering easy, secure and effective identity and access management to web-based resources. OpenAthens is designed to interoperate with existing systems and support SAML software like Shibboleth, ADFS, Ping Federate and OKTA.

Thank you to everyone involved in Access Lab this year! Access Lab is our free international conference, which takes place each year in March Over the past five years, libraries, publishers and library users meet at our annual event to discuss challenges facing the information industry The conference explores industry developments, provides real life case studies and holds topical panel discussions where you get the chance to ask the questions

Work smarter, not harder with usage stats reporting

Use our customizable reporting tool to make data-driven decisions about where to spend your library budget and how to improve student retention, all included with your OpenAthens subscription

Add on our reporting API to seamlessly integrate your library usage data into existing data visualization software, such as Tableau or Power BI for even more powerful insights into user behavior

We support proxy, why do we need OpenAthens?

Our resource hub is full of educational content and raises awareness of the three key issues around IP-based access: security, poor user experience, and lack of personalization

Don’t take our word for it! Read customer success stories about setting up, integrating and using OpenAthens

Who we work with

Ground News collaborates with OpenAthens to help students navigate a complex media environment

Sage win OpenAthens UX award 2023

Library user experience: OpenAthens publishes findings from global research with students and researchers