Athens help

Athens username and password

Your Athens account is an authentication system which allows you to access the majority of the databases that this Library subscribes to; it is not a database of materials in its own right.

Your Athens account will be created automatically shortly after you register at University of Northampton. You will receive an email message providing details of your Athens username and password in your University email account.

Forgotten your password?

If you have forgotten your Athens password please follow the instructions below:

Visit the Forgotten Athens Password page
Enter your Athens username (don't' forget the ucn prefix e.g. ucnjbrown000)
Enter your University email address
Click Submit

You will receive an email with a link to a web page where you can choose your own password.

Password doesn't work?

If your password doesn't appear to work, try checking the following:

Make sure that Caps Lock is not set on your keyboard - Athens passwords are case sensitive
Check that you are not confusing letters and numbers e.g. the letter oh (O) with the number zero (0), or letter el (l) with number one (1)

Changing your password

You cannot change your Athens account username, but you can change your password by following these instructions:

Log on to the MyAthens web site
Enter the username and password that you have now and click Login
Click on the My Account button
Enter your current password and the new password you would like to have. You must then enter this again in the Confirm Password box
Click on Submit

There are conditions on length of password, characters allowed and so on, which are given on screen.