We are the Australian Access Federation

Established in 2009, the Australian Access Federation (AAF) is Australia’s identity federation and part of a global network of over 87 federations around the world. The AAF is a vital part of the Australian eResearch infrastructure landscape enabling safe and secure exchange of information between education and research institutions both locally and internationally.

The Federation is a combination of technology and policy, which offers a trust framework. It provides subscribers with a national single sign-on that allows individuals across many different organisations to collaborate and access online resources within a trusted environment.

By logging in via the AAF, end users can access a variety of services including file transfer, data storage, compute, collaboration tools and portals, scientific instrumentation, administrative systems, scholarly resources and teaching, learning and research resources.

Managing federated access

AAF removes inter-organisational barriers to collaboration by enabling people to quickly and easily connect with electronic resources. Resource providers are also able to quickly and easily connect their services to over 1.5 million people connected to the AAF today.

Operating as a shared service, the growing AAF subscriber base encompasses many leading organisation in the research and education sector, these include:

all Australian Universities
CSIRO and other government research agencies as well as leading research support organisations
organisations providing online products or services for teaching, learning and research.

Learn more about the AAF and the Federation at aaf.edu.au

Australian ORCID Consortium

The AAF leads the ORCID Consortium in Australia. ORCID is a persistent identifier (an ORCID iD) that researchers own and control, distinguishing them from every other researcher

In Australia the Consortium provides local support, assists with member integrations and encourages national uptake of ORCID in organisations. The Australian ORCID Consortium helps members understand the benefits and how they can get the most value from their membership.

Individuals can get a free ORCID iD. This digital identifier distinguishes individual researchers from other researchers and enables them to manage their records and search for others in the Registry.

44 member organisations
Over 172,000 ORCID iDs connected by member integrations
100% of member organisations have completed successful ORCID integrations

Learn more about the AAF-led ORCID Consortium at aaf.edu.au/orcid