Introduction
OpenAthens stablish a trusted network where multiple organizations agree to share user authentication, making it easy for users to access digital resources across many institutions with just one secure login. It uses the concept of federations to grant users access to resources from various publishers and libraries, even if those resources don’t belong to their own organization, as long as both their institution and the service provider (Statista in this case) are members of the same federation (the OpenAthens federation in this case).
Prerequisites
- Your institution is already using OpenAthens and you are part of OpenAthens's federation.
- Access to the OpenAthens administration dashboard from you institution.
- Confirmation from your Statista account manager that an account has been provisioned for your institution.
Process
Please collect the following information from your institution, required by our subscription management system and provide them to your account manager:
- Domain.
- Entity id.
- Organization name.
Those fields are available in the OpenAthens administration dashboard of your institution under Preferences -> Organisation, as shown in the screenshot.
Make sure your institution is releasing the required attributes for the connection. You can check the required attributes for Statista under this link.
In case they need to be updated or added you can do that on the OpenAthens administrator console under Preferences -> Attribute release, as shown in the screenshot:
Your Statista account manager will reach back to you, once the data is entered on our subscription management system, to inform your subscription is ready to use.