We'll shortly be starting a trial of OpenAthens, which, to go all technical for a minute, is a framework for managing users' identity information and enabling secure access to an institution's electronic resources through a single username and password (single sign-on). I'll repeat that last bit. A single username and password for accessing all electronic resources. Now it may be that there are one or two resources that don't support this, but won't it be great to have if not all, then the vast majority of resources accessible in the one place via one username and password?
As we're starting with a trial, we can probably only make a few resources available this way initially. We'll get this set up for the new year, and more information will be forthcoming then.
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