Access to LS Login services requires sometimes that the user has a confirmed affiliation with a home organisation (e.g. a university, research institution or private company). The preferred way for LS to learn the affiliation is by the user logging in to LS Login using the home organisation credentials and the home organisation releases programmatically to LS Login an attribute describing the affiliation (for instance, an assertion that they are a researcher at the university).

For technical and other reasons, not all home organisations support it. If you would like your organisation to support this functionality please refer to instructions in following document: 

• Letter to encourage home organisation IdPs to release attributes

Additional information:

• Life Science Login Attribute Requirements
• Attribute release test page

If login at the Home Organisation is not possible, a named representative of the Home Organisation can manage their users' affiliation manually in LS Login:

• Manual Assignment to an Affiliation