Extra help for library curation and management
7 June 2021
Identity and access management specialist OpenAthens has overhauled its established MyAthens service
Open Athens
User experience prize is music to Nkoda’s ears
17 March 2021
Open Athens winners ‘showed great knowledge and care for UX’
Finalists named for user experience award
23 February 2021
OpenAthens announces finalists for Best Publisher User Experience award
Access Lab 2021
Access Lab is the place where librarians, publishers and library users discuss challenges and solutions around discovery and access to digital content and services.
This year’s conference theme ‘Thriving in the (un)unsual. Creativity. Agility. Pace’ reflects the challenges of the past year and what we need to do to move forward.
Twenty-five years on – enabling access to knowledge
23 September 2020
As OpenAthens celebrates its 25th anniversary, Jon Bentley discusses the organisation’s growth, industry changes and what to expect in the future
Access all areas!
9 January 2020
Under a new name, the Open Athens conference returns to London rebranded as Access Lab
The meaning of open
20 September 2019
David Stuart investigates the concept of open research, and what it means to the scholarly community
OpenAthens launches new identity
10 July 2019
Single sign-on provider OpenAthens has launched a new user-centred identity, intended to embody the software providers’ mission to make access to knowledge easy for its customers and end users.
'User-centred by design’
7 May 2019
Improved user-centred design in digital media and publishing is the key to future success and to combating piracy, the OpenAthens 2019 conference heard
All about the user
28 January 2019
The concept of ‘user-centred by design’ will be centre-stage at the OpenAthens 2019 conference
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Manisha Bolina and Heather Staines
Manisha Bolina and Heather Staines share some insights about looking for scholarly communications positions in a pandemic
Many libraries have had to strengthen their digital presence to survive, especially over the last 12 months, writes Cintia Dabes
The pandemic has provided a tantalising glimpse of the potential of open educational resources. Rebecca Pool asks: will they become our new normal?
You could do worse than to follow the advice of an iconic 90’s rapper, writes Susie Winter
Library search tools and services have a bright future – if they can support users in their preferred workflows, writes Matthew Hayes
Jason Priem tells of his hopes for a ‘long-overdue’ change in academic publishing
Sam Herbert
Sam Herbert, co-founder of 67 Bricks, casts his eye over the industry – and tells of his early love of surfing
We should meet users’ needs, no matter who they are, where they are from, or which language they speak, writes Ashleigh Faith
Tim Lloyd
Measuring the impact of open access agreements is critical for developing sustainable business models, writes Tim Lloyd
