Elsevier

ScienceDirect®, a division of Elsevier Science, announces that it now supports the Athens® Access Management System in the UK. This arrangement not only addresses the UK higher and further education community's increasing need for scientific information, but also guarantees that customers have maximum flexibility to access the ScienceDirect® platform.

ScienceDirect's® support for the Athens® Access Management System means that users from universities and colleges throughout the UK can now benefit from remote off-campus access to ScienceDirect® without additional administration by those institutions. Furthermore, Athens® Single Sign On(SSO) technology enables the use of the same log-in credentials to access multiple information resources, so that users can link seamlessly to other Athens® SSO-protected information. By offering support for all the major authentication standards, Athens allows institutions the opportunity to evolve their authentication procedures at their own pace