FAQs
Athens is an authentication system that allows you to access the electronic resources your library subscribes to from anywhere in the world.You may have had an Athens username and password at a previous institution to access the resources that library subscribed to.
Here at the University of Bedfordshire we use an alternative authentication system, the UK Access Management Federation, which has superseded Athens in the Higher Education community.
You might still come across Athens when talking to colleagues in other sectors such as the NHS or other universities; this is because they have chosen to use Athens as their authentication system.
The main thing to remember is that Athens is not a collection of resources; it’s just an alternative route to accessing the resource the University of Bedfordshire subscribes to.
