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Acta Cytologica Login Instructions

Acta Cytologica is an NHS-subscribed journal, available via OpenAthens username / password.

To Login:

1. Find the journal entry on the NHS A-Z journals list. You can find instructions on how to do this here.

2. Select the link for the online journal.
Screen-shot of the journal entry in the NHS A-Z journals list

3. This link will take you to the publisher’s page.
Screen-shot of the journal page for Acta Cytologica



4. Find the article you are looking for – you can use the “Year” drop-down link or page-down to see recent issues or the archive.
Screen-shot of the options to view previous issues of Acta Cytologica



5. Once you have found the article you want you may need to login to view the full-text. Use the “Login” link at the top of the page.
Screen-shot showing the full-text is not automatically presented



6. Select the OpenAthens login option.
Screen-shot showing the different login options to this website



7. Then enter “NHS England” into the organisation box and click search.
Screen-shot of the organisation search box



8. From the results list, select the option for “NHS England”.
Screen-shot showing the list of organisations returned by the search



9. You may then be prompted to log in via Athens – use you Athens username / password – or you may then be logged in automatically. You’ll be returned to the article page you were looking at. You can now use the fulltext or pdf options to view the fulltext.
Screen-shot showing that the user has logged in



10. The full-text will be presented.
Screen-shot of the full-text of this example article



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