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Changes to access for electronic Library resources

By Kieron L Jones, on 8 July 2009

“From 1 August 2009, in common with many other UK universities, UCL will no longer be using the ‘Athens’ login for access to electronic library resources. The Athens login service now incurs an institutional subscription, and it is more efficient for UCL to provide an in-house mechanism.

You may still see links labelled ‘Athens login’ on various resources, but UCL users must take a different route to log in.

UCL staff and students are advised to access all resources through the lists of electronic journals and databases available on the Library Services website (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/ejournal and http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/database).

This will guarantee that you get free access to all the resources to which you are entitled as a UCL member. If you are on-site you will not need to log in to resources. If you are off-site, you will be prompted for your UCL userid and password automatically (no cookies are required, unlike Athens).

If you reach by another route the website for an electronic resource to which UCL subscribes, you can also follow the instructions on the information page http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/e-res.shtml ‘Logging in on a resource’s homepage’.

If you have any queries, please first read the information published at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/e-res.shtml. If necessary you can then submit your query via the form linked from this page.”

Jan Cropper, Group Manager – IT Services

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