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OpenAthens for Remote Access

OpenAthens, Your Privacy, and Data Secutiry

What OpenAthens Collects

In order to authenticate you to specific resources (databases, e-journals, and e-books) OpenAthens collects your name, email address, and building location  when you sign in to the system.

This information is never passed on to any vendor unless you opt in for special personalization features in specific databases (see Personalization, below). Instead, OpenAthens passes a system-generated numeric ID to resource providers. 

 

Personalization Features and Customization

Some databases, such as Ebsco, ProQuest E-book Central, and ScienceDirect allow you to create a personal account on their service to save searches and search results, annotate resources, or compile lists of citations. 

OpenAthens will allow you to automatically sign in to a personal account but this may mean consenting to allow the vendor to store your name, email address, or other data.  

Merging My EBSCOhost accounts

The Libraries are still working on our OpenAthens implementation and we will post more information on Personalization features here in the coming weeks.  If you have an Ebsco or ProQuest E-book Central account and are interested in this feature, please do contact us

 

 

Security

OpenAthens connects with AU's central directory to ensure that the familiar AU username and password remain the one set of login credentials to access licensed online resources.  OpenAthens will also require Duo when accessing from off campus.

Read more about OpenAthens, Data Security, and User Privacy on the Ebsco support site