This free-to-attend lunch seminar will help institutions to find out how to get the most from an OpenAthens subscription.

By attending you will explore how OpenAthens LA can enhance your access and identity management (AIM) capabilities and see why an increasing number of institutions are choosing our solution over other options including native Shibboleth implementation.

This three-hour seminar (including lunch) is the perfect place to evaluate your evolving AIM needs and explore whether OpenAthens LA is right for your institution:

·         What is OpenAthens LA?

Explore the new features and benefits you would receive by implementing OpenAthens LA and the impact that they could have in your organisation. If you haven’t come across them before, here are just a few benefits of implementing OpenAthens LA:

o   Integration with existing usernames and passwords enabling single-sign-on to improve the user experience.

o   Powerful statistics modules that will help librarians to allocate resource spend effectively.

o   Fully supported product including automatic upgrade capability, so once OpenAthens is installed it requires little IT resource or support.

·         Upgrade paths
Explore the licence costs (existing OpenAthens customers can upgrade at no extra cost to their institution) and resource implications involved in implement the system. This will help you to make an informed decision about which AIM solution is right for your organisation.

·         Real life OpenAthens LA experiences
We will cover some of the challenges organisations face and benefits they received as a result of implementing OpenAthens LA.  Here’s what Bath Spa University said about making the upgrade:

o   “Implementing OpenAthens LA 2.0 has been ground-breaking; it has really created a cultural change within the university. Staff find it a lot easier to use, and recommend a lot more resources to students as they know they will all be able to easily access them” Matt Durant, Information Manager, Bath Spa University

·         The future of OpenAthens
Find out more about the OpenAthens product development roadmap, so you can see how we plan to continue to support OpenAthens LA customers in managing access to the resources their institution needs access to.

 Please register for a place at the seminar, and add the event to your calendar.