Classic Athens

Provides organisations with the tools necessary to create and manage usernames for single sign-on access to protected web resources. This is a managed service complete with full infrastructure.

For a description on how Athens works, see our How Athens Works and Athens SSO architecture pages.

Classic Athens offers:

• secure single sign-on access to multiple web-based services
• managed directory of user information with librarian-orientated tools
• user accounts ideal for remote access
• encrypted bulk user account upload services
• highly scalable services - supports millions of user accounts
• replicated, load balanced and fully resilient architecture

Joining instructions:

For instructions on how to join please refer to our Organisation registration page.