Single sign-on

Testing for the single sign-on project is finally drawing to a close, with just one database left to resolve. We would like to thank the students and staff that took part in the testing, and are really appreciative of all the positive feedack we recieved.

What is single sign on?

Single sign-on is a way of accessing Library resources using your Bath Spa username/password. In the past students have set-up seperate ‘Athens’ accounts in order to access our resources from home. This would often become a barrier as passwords were very easily forgotten.

In September 2009 the University began testing a product called OpenAthens LA 2.0, which allows students and staff to access Library resources in the same way they would access Minerva or email.

Our sucess in testing this software has enabled the creating company (Eduserv) to use us a case study, presenting our success to potential customers.

In early April we plan to remove all Athens access to our resources, before enabling the single sign-on service across almost our entire range of resources. This may have some implications for Refworks users, for which the following blog post will provide some vital information.

If there are any questions please contact Matt Durant (m.durant@bathspa.ac.uk) or post comments below.

Refworks and single sign-on

Athens access to Refworks will shortly be removed, allowing users to log-in with a Bath Spa username/password.

However when you log-in to the service with your new username and password for the first time, your references will not be migrated across. To make sure this happens, you will have to do it manually: