EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)
Read the guide to help you configure your EDS instance to work with the OpenAthens Redirector.
Read our EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and the OpenAthens redirector guideStep 5: integration with other apps
OpenAthens is designed to interact successfully with many third-party applications in a range of ways, from devolving sign-in to their authentication systems to enabling access to their resources through the OpenAthens login.
Content discovery services
Integrating with your library portal discovery service ensures a seamless user experience by which users can access content in their search results using OpenAthens
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Alma ExLibris
Read the guide to help you configure your Alma instance to work with the OpenAthens Redirector.
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Summon ExLibris
Read the guide to help you configure your Summon instance to work with the OpenAthens Redirector.
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BrowZine
You do not have to create any custom settings in OpenAthens to support this as the Third Iron support team take care of everything at their end. All you have to do is to email your redirector prefix to support@thirdiron.com asking them to update your authentication to OpenAthens.
Find out more about BrowZine and the OpenAthens Redirector
Learning environment, course management and library management systems
Integrating with your learning environment and course management systems ensures a seamless user experience by which users can access content in their search results using OpenAthens.
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Blackboard Learn
This is an example using Blackboard Learn of how to set up a custom SAML resource so that you can log in using the hosted version OpenAthens.
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Moodle
Our documentation details how to configure Moodle to accept OpenAthens logins using the SAML2 single sign-on plug-in from their plug-ins directory.
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LibAuth (for LibGuides, LibCal, LibAnswers etc)
Learn how to configure LibAuth in your LibApps admin portal, setting up a custom SAML resource.
Configure LibAuth in your LibApps admin portal
Browser plug-ins
Integrating with your browser plug-ins ensures a seamless user experience by which users can access content in their search results using OpenAthens.
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Lean Library
We have a guide that will help you set-up Lean Library to work with the OpenAthens Redirector.
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LibX
We have a guide that will help you configure your LibX edition to work with the OpenAthens Redirector.
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Zotero
We have a guide that will tell you the information you need to give your patrons or end-users to enable them to configure their Zotero extension to use the OpenAthens Redirector.
Find out more about how Zotero browser extention and OpenAthens work together
Other platforms
Integrating with other platforms ensures a seamless user experience by which users can access content in their search results using OpenAthens.
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Google G Suite
We have a guide to help you with signing in to G Suite with OpenAthens.
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Adobe Creative Cloud
We have a guide that outlines an example using Adobe Creative Cloud Enterprise of how to set up a custom SAML resource so that you can log in using OpenAthens.
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Joomla
We have a guide that will help you set up a custom SAML resource for log-in with OpenAthens using Joomla and the free version of the miniOrange SSO extension.
Find out how to sign in to Joomla with OpenAthens
Our story
OpenAthens has been providing remote access and authentication solutions for over 25 years. Used worldwide by over 2,600 academic, healthcare, corporate research libraries, publishers, and service providers to provide access to knowledge. We’re based in the UK and are a part of Jisc.