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Reach more customers worldwide by easily connecting your content and services with the OpenAthens Federation

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What is a Federation?

A federation is a collaborative network of organizations that agree to share resources and information securely. By joining a federation, service providers and publishers can allow their users to access a wide range of services and content using a single set of login credentials. This simplifies the authentication process and enhances security.

The OpenAthens Federation offers great flexibility. Join us with any SAML single sign-on solution and we will handle all the technical complexities for you.

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An international network connecting different industries

The OpenAthens Federation is the only one in the world that allows participation of publishers or service providers from any country or sector.

Joining the federation, you become part of a global network with over 3,000 members from diverse industries, including academia, healthcare and corporate markets.

Check out the members of our federation

What do you get with the OpenAthens Federation?

  1. Great user experience

    Give your customers easy access to your content by simplifying the login process and removing complicated integrations.

  2. Enhance security

    Safeguard your content with stronger protection to prevent piracy and misuse. Our services are ISO 27001 certified.

  3. User privacy and security

    Our members commit to our privacy rules for the secure exchange of user information. Also, we regularly conduct security checks to safeguard against cyber security threats following our security guide.

  4. More stability than proxy-based access

    Enjoy fast and reliable access to digital content with our cloud-based service, hosted across multiple global regions.

    Learn more about federated access

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    An introduction to federated access

    This webinar helps to remove some of the mystery around one of the most important – but widely misunderstood topics – identity federations.

    Watch our webinar about identity federations
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    Demystifying federated access to content

    Our webinar explains how federated access works, the difference between federated access solutions and how they all work together.

    Watch our webinar about federated access
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    Talkin ’bout my federation – attributes

    Our webinar aims to remove some of the mystery around attributes and their role within federated access.

    Watch our webinar about attributes

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