Research ready
Provide your researchers, faculty, staff, and students with seamless access to academic collaboration and cloud services.
Trusted, seamless access to global research and scholarly collaboration
InCommon Federation
Scaling trustworthy access
to global research and collaboration
The InCommon Federation provides secure single sign-on access to cloud and local services, and global collaboration tools. We connect millions of users and hundreds of educational institutions, research organizations, and commercial resource providers.
Community-driven
Our community identifies and drives new functionality and best practices.
Go global!
We’re the U.S. gateway to the global research and education community.
Need help?
InCommon Catalysts understand your challenges and can help with implementation and integration.
Explore the InCommon Federation
Get started
Prepare to join InCommon and federate.
Federation overview
Learn about what the Federation does
Research & scholarship
Help make seamless global research collaboration a reality.
Baseline expectations
Learn about how Baseline Expectations improve trust and interoperability.
Get software
Get federation-optimized packaged identity and access management software
Practices & documents
Documentation galore! SAML, anyone?
