UK Access Management Federation
for Education and Research
Welcome to the home of the UK federation, which provides a single solution to accessing online resources and services for education and research. Here is some information on how it works.
Eligible organisations are invited to join the current membership. Here are some benefits.
Upgrading from Shibboleth 1.3
The End Of Life date for Shibboleth 1.3 IdP and SP software was 30th June 2010. For information about making the move to Shibboleth 2 please refer to Registration or contact the UK federation helpdesk.
Latest news
New editions of technical documents published
Posted on Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Technical reference documents for the UK federation are available here.
UK federation supporting education technology startups
Posted on Thursday, 28 March 2013
One of our members, Knodium, was mentioned in the Guardian yesterday: “Are edutech startups plugging an innovation gap in our universities?” (see http://gu.com/p/3em6d/tw)