About us

The Athens Access Management System (AMS) controls access to web-based subscription services.

Athens, a service of Eduserv, 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 centrally-funded web-based services. Athens is the de-facto standard in UK higher education, further education and research councils for access management and was awarded a JISC contract in August 2000, for the provision of authentication services to these communities. This contract will be terminating on 31st July 2008.

Athens has also been in use by the UK National Health Service since 2000 and is currently used to control access to the National Library for Health (NLH).

The Eduserv Athens service is based in Bath, United Kingdom.