User experience prize is music to Nkoda’s ears
17 March 2021
Open Athens winners ‘showed great knowledge and care for UX’
James Molloy reflects on the many different strands of his role as a librarian
Open Athens
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
When bad user design becomes a barrier to content
OpenAthens studies student’s behaviour to improve our single sign-on products. We would like to share some of the findings with university presses and other publishers that provide digital content to the education and research sector. Our research into university students’ journey in the UK and the US can help publishers provide more relevant, flexible and timely content.
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