Athens Authentication for ABC-CLIO Databases
Oxford, United Kingdom, April 2004 - ABC-CLIO is proud to announce that its award-winning databases America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts now allow user authentication through the Athens Identity Management System.
Athens is the leading provider for identity management in UK education and health sectors, with a reputation for reliability and ease of use. As the provider of the world's leading historical reference bibliography, ABC-CLIO felt it essential that its subscriptions had Athens authentication. Now, ABC-CLIO customers will be able to securely access their databases whether they are on campus, at home, or abroad, thereby having greater opportunity to study and research at the user’s convenience.
Vicky Speck, ABC-CLIO's Editorial Director, said of the new partnership "ABC-CLIO is pleased that we can offer our UK customers the option of authenticating to our databases, America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts, via Athens authentication. We strive to offer our customers many options to help them accomplish their History research. Allowing for Athens authentication is just another way that ABC-CLIO works to meet customer needs."
Stephen Butcher, Eduserv's Chief Executive, has also commented on the new partnership, "I’m delighted that ABC-CLIO’s valuable resources will now join hundreds of others in being accessible via Athens Single Sign On."
Notes to Editors:
Established in 1955, ABC-CLIO (www.abc-clio.com) is a privately held corporation with an international reputation for high quality and innovation. The company is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, with offices in Denver, Colorado, and Oxford, England. As an educational reference publisher, ABC-CLIO has received critical acclaim for its abstracting and indexing services, award-winning book program, and cutting-edge online products.
Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, established in 1955 and 1964, respectively, are research tools for students, scholars, and historians. They contain abstracts of journal articles and book reviews pertaining to the history of the world, with more than 16,000 new entries added to each database every year. Both databases were brought to the Web in 1998.
Eduserv Athens (www.eduserv.org.uk/athens) was designed and developed in 1994. The service has been in active use since 1996 in the UK higher education community, providing access to many protected web-based services. Athens is the de-facto standard in UK higher education, further education and the health sector for identity management and was awarded a JISC contract in August 2000, for the provision of authentication services to these communities. This contract has now been extended to 2006.
The Eduserv Athens service is based in Bath, United Kingdom.
Contact:
Courtney Russell
(800) 368-6868 x347
crussell@abc-clio.com
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