Your institution may provide access to the Aspen Learning Library through a variety of different authentication options. To find out how to log in to your institution’s account, ask your librarian for details about which authentication method is used by your school.
Once you know which authentication method your school has chosen, follow these steps for each method:
Option 1: IP Range Authentication
- Students who are within the school’s IP range or logged in by proxy server can navigate directly to aspenlearninglibrary.com. The student will be automatically authenticated into the institution level and can create a personalized account or login to their personalized account from there.
- Students have access off-campus. Students must first create their personalized account when on campus, and then any time after the personalized account is created, simply log in with the personalized account information and click the “remote login” button on the login screen.
Option 2: "Library Card" Authentication
- Students go directly to aspenlearninglibrary.com and select “Login” and then Library Card Login.
- Enter your library card information.
Option 3: Referrer URL Authentication (via institution's password-protected web site)
- Students log in to the library website using their credentials.
- Students navigate to the page where the link to aspenlearninglibrary.com has been placed.
- The student will be automatically authenticated into the institution level and can create a personalized account or login to their personalized account from there.
Single Sign-On (SSO) Options
Option 4: Shibboleth
- Students use their student id through their school’s SSO login.
- A personalized login is automatically created for students.
- Students go to aspenlearninglibrary.com and select Single Sign-On and then their school from a dropdown.
- The student will be automatically authenticated into the institution level and can create a personalized account or login to their personalized account from there.
Option 5: OpenAthens
- Students use their student id through their school’s SSO login.
- Students go to aspenlearninglibrary.com and select OpenAthens Login, and then their school from a dropdown.
- The student will be automatically authenticated into the institution level and their personalized account.