Using your Birmingham City University Network username and password to access electronic resources via iCity. 

Athens is the name of the password system that we use to give access to electronic resources. Click here to simplify access to Athens-protected  resources.

Your Athens login is exactly same as your BCU network id that you use to access Moodle or your student email. You need your University Network username and password, the same as you do to logon to Moodle or to your student email.

A good way to start is to go to iCity http://icity.bcu.ac.uk/, logon with your student id first,

Then look for the Electronic Resources link. This is below the Library widget box as labelled below :

(If you can’t find the Library box or have deleted it, look for it under https://icity.bcu.ac.uk/Tools,
select Library under ‘Which Widgets would you like to see on your homepage?’ then click Apply).
 

This will then take you through to the AtoZ of Electronic Resources list, and if it is your first time here you may have to ‘Click to continue’ a page just to say you are a member of Birmingham City University. You will also find other Electronic resources pages such as the AtoZ of Full Text Journals and Electronic resources by subject.

For more information see the post on our eresource blog http://eresource.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/tip-accessing-athens-protected-services-for-the-first-time-use-icity/. You can also sign up to this blog to receive updates on all our electronic resources.