OpenAthens at AKU: OpenAthens, Your Privacy, and Data Secutiry

In order to authenticate you to specific resources (databases, e-journals, and ebooks) OpenAthens collects your name, email address, and department  when you sign in to the system.

This information is generally not passed on to vendors.  Instead, OpenAthens passes a system-generated numeric ID to resource providers.

The Libraries use the aggregate data concerning

• resources (databases and publisher platforms) accessed
• user departments or majors
• user Internet providers and network locations

The Libraries will not share this data with vendors.

Security

OpenAthens connects with AKU's central directory to ensure that the familiar AKU username and password remain the one set of login credentials to access licensed online resources.