What is OpenAthens?
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OpenAthens (https://www.openathens.net/) is an identity and access management service that provides modern single sign-on (SSO) technology, offering easy online access to library resources. CMU Libraries offers OpenAthens and EZproxy to help connect users to library resources.
Publisher and platform websites often display an 'Institutional Sign-in' option, which uses OpenAthens technology to authorize you as a CMU affiliate, simply by entering your Andrew ID and password.
Many of the resource links on the Libraries' Databases, eResources, and Tools A-Z list are optimized for OpenAthens, and will prompt you to log in.
CMU's OpenAthens redirector proxy prefix is: https://go.openathens.net/redirector/cmu.edu?url=
This OpenAthens Link Generator tool will create links for CMU: https://go.openathens.net/generate/cmu.edu/81074538
OpenAthens URL examples:
- 'Athenized' with redirector proxy prefix:
https://go.openathens.net/redirector/cmu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.humanitiesebook.org
- You might notice that a URL changes after loading/resolving, and includes 'proxy.openathens':
