Ways to log in
To log in to Who's Who you need a subscription—either of your own (find out how to subscribe) or of an institution to which you belong (such as your local library).
User name and password
Individual subscribers each have a user name and password. They are case sensitive.
Library card
A library may implement remote access through readers logging in using the codes on their library tickets. Most public libraries in the UK allow readers to use online resources in this way. You may need to append extra characters to your card number: check your library's web site.
Automatic login (IP authentication)
Institutional subscribers can provide us with the IP addresses of their domains. Anyone going to Who's Who from a computer within that institutional domain will be automatically logged in to Who's Who. If you can see a quick search box at the top right of the Who's Who home page, and your subscriber name bottom right, you have automatically logged in.
Referring URL
Institutions may also set up a referring URL: members of that institution may remotely access a 'staging post', which is authenticated through its IP address, and thus log in automatically to Who's Who.
Athens
Athens authentication will be enabled early in 2008. Members of participating institutions in the UK and Republic of Ireland with a subscription to Who's Who will be able to use the Athens service on and off campus with their personal Athens username and password.
Problems logging in?
Cookies
Cookies are small files that we create to store information temporarily on your computer. You must have cookies enabled to access Who's Who.
- We do not use cookies to track what other sites you have visited.
- We do not look at or track any personal or confidential information about you.
- We do make use of cookies to enable authorization control for online subscriptions.
- We do make use of cookies to collect web site usage statistics.
The cookies used in our system:
- acctid and acctname identify you to our system (and only to our system) as a valid user
- JSESSIONID identifies your session to our computer
- __utma, __utmb, __utmc, and __utmz: enable the collection of web site usage statistics
Cookie problems
Because the cookies we use identify subscribers to our system, if you are unable to sign in, you may have a cookie problem.
You are not accepting cookies.
- Make sure that your browser's preference are set to accept cookies.
You are using a program on your computer that automatically deletes cookies.
- Two such programs for the Macintosh are 'Cookie Cutter' and 'WebFree'. You will need to create an exception for Who's Who.
The date is set inaccurately on your computer.
- This confuses our cookies (they have expiration dates). Check to see that the date is set accurately.
Your browser does not support cookies.
- You will need to upgrade it.
You are accessing Who's Who via a 'proxy server' that is deleting cookies automatically.
- You should contact your network administrator to determine whether your institution's proxy server is the source of the trouble.