OpenAthens is described as 'The world of libraries, librarians and information professionals is in a period of exciting transition. As libraries, technology and information evolve, there is one constant: people want information that supports their learning, development and decision making' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are three alternatives to OpenAthens for Self-Hosted, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Mac. The best OpenAthens alternative is Shibboleth, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like OpenAthens are CAS and SimpleSAMLphp.
The Shibboleth software implements widely used federated identity standards, principally the OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), to provide a federated single sign-on and attribute exchange framework.
SimpleSAMLphp is an application written in native PHP that deals with authentication. The main focus of SimpleSAMLphp is providing support for SAML 2.0 as a Service Provider (SP) and SAML 2.0 as an Identity Provider (IdP).
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