OpenAthens Documentation

Welcome to the OpenAthens documentation home page, here you will find documentation for our products.

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OpenAthens Identity
OpenAthens	A complete hosted service for the management of single sign on access to electronic resources
OpenAthens LA (Local Authentication)	A standards-compliant software platform that enables you to host your own SAML Identity Provider (IdP)
OpenAthens Access
OpenAthens SP (Service Provider)	A standards-compliant software platform that enables you to provide and manage secure access to your online resources.
OpenAthens Cloud SP	Coming in 2017
OpenAthens Federation	The international SAML federation.
Other
Third party applications	some guidance on connecting to other applications such as Moodle or ADFS

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