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Athens

General Info

Resources

Help & Advice

What is Athens?

Athens is an authentication system that allows you to access electronic resources (e-books, and e-journals) from outside West Suffolk College. (offsite). Your Athens username is used for accessing all WSC resources off-site for as long as you are registered on a course here.

Resources needing an Athens username for off-site use are:

  • Art fulltext and Art Abstracts – database of articles from journals, many fulltext, on Art.
  • Careknowledge – a digest of social care documents and legislation.
  • Construction Information Service – useful for Construction and Building Services Students.
  • Ebrary – a large collection of e-books
  • EBSCO EJS – access to the electronic versions of our journal subscriptions.
  • Infotrac General Onefile – a large database of electronic magazine and journal articles
  • Infotrac Newspaper database – newspaper archive of some major newspapers
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library – a virtual reference Library
  • Myilibrary – a collection of e-books
  • New scientist archive online
  • Zetoc –contents database of  British Library journals

There are other databases and more will be added. Check the Athens website for a full list of resources.

How do I get an Athens Username?

All current students have had a username and password created for them. 

  • Login to Studentnet
  • Click on College webmail and re-enter your login
  • You will have an email from Julia Mary Lale (your Athens administrator)
  • The email tells you your Athens username and password – keep it safe

You can reset your password once you have logged in to Athens by clicking on the 'My Account' tab. If you forget, you can ask in the Library where we can reset your password for you. We can create an Athens username for you if you do not have one.

How do I use my Athens account?

From the Athens website:

To see a full list of resources, log on to:-

http://www.athensams.net/myathens

This will list the resources you now have access to. You can add your favourite resources to your Athens home page very easily.

You will find a list of additional resources that you also have access to on the left hand side of the main page.  This includes Newsfilm Online and Film & Sound Online.
You will be asked to login and choose your home organization (West Suffolk College) from the drop-down list.

From an individual resource:

Using the Library catalogue, search for a resource by author, title or keyword and you may find an e-book or an e-resource to link to. When you are at home, you will be prompted for your Athens username and password.

On the Library website you will also find electronic resources (A-Z) that may need an Athens username entered.

If you have problems logging in, please email Library@wsc.ac.uk or ask a member of the Library staff.

 

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