OpenAthens Ideas Portal

We're always looking for ways to improve our products, and we'd love your input to help us make that happen. Your suggestions will guide us in deciding where we should focus our future research and development.

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Here’s how the portal is organised:

  • Librarians (Identity Providers): Share ideas that help organisations that manage user identities and provide access to online content and services. This includes improving the experience for students and researchers.

  • Publishers (Service Providers): Share ideas for organisations that offer content and services.


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    Share times of system incidents in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)

    Please share the start times of OpenAthens service windows, incidents, outages, etc. in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). This will avoid any confusion, especially in spring and fall when switching between standard and daylight saving/summer time.
    3 days ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / Terminology 0 Feedback wanted

    Organisation mapping rule option for 'null' / 'empty' as a condition when creating a rule

    In the Organisation mapping rules there is no 'empty' or 'null' option for rule conditions so we couldn't create a mapping rule which would trap is missing value. This resulted in some of our users not being able to login to OpenAthens because of ...
    4 days ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted

    Filter to allow user list to be filtered to users who failed to login at last attempt

    This allows troubleshooting of login failures - should also allow combining with sorting by last sign in column. Troubleshooting a mapping issue last week would have been much easier with this!
    4 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 0 Feedback wanted

    Request to support non-standard ports (e.g. 8080) on the proxy.

    Currently the OpenAthens proxy supports only standard HTTP/HTTPS ports (80 and 443). Some customers have locally hosted resources running on non-standard ports, for example http://www.domain.com:8080, which cannot be supported yet.
    7 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy 0 Feedback wanted

    Introduce Granular Dashboard Roles and Permissions

    Currently, dashboard access is limited to a small number of high-level roles, with administrators having full access to all functions. This creates a challenge when staff require visibility into dashboard information but should not be granted admi...
    28 days ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted

    Customizable authentication page branding (HTML editor - more flexible CSS branding)

    Provide more flexible out-of-the-box branding customization for the authentication point (similar to EZProxy), ideally via a HTML editor or support for uploaded CSS/HTML files. At a minimum, libraries should be able to replace all the English text...
    5 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Documentation / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 3 Feedback wanted

    Complete revamp of "Compatible Resources" Page and Info: Include comprehensive vendor list and detailed instructions on how all supported vendors are to be set up.

    The comprehensive list should live inside of OpenAthens admin, but it should also be publicly available, replacing the unclear, low information entries now seen in the compatible providers list. The listing/database should contain information incl...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Reporting / Resource catalogue / Supporting other federations 6 Research & discovery

    Add Organisation name to Domain Group level reports

    When running a Domain Group level report for all the institutions in that group, the report only contains the domain for each institution, but it would be helpful to also have the Organisation name. Obviously, this isn't relevant for individual in...
    10 days ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    Allow OpenAthens to dynamically apply Permission Sets based on a user's access location (on-campus or off-campus network).

    Many institutions manage electronic resource access under licence agreements that distinguish between on-campus and off-campus use. At our institution, some user groups are permitted to access only a subset of resources remotely, while additional ...
    11 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Attribute release / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

    Allow Resource Status notifications to be limited to resources allocated to an institution's OpenAthens catalogue

    As an OpenAthens administrator, I would like Resource Status notifications to be limited to resources allocated to my organisation's OpenAthens catalogue, so that I only receive alerts relevant to my library and its users. Many libraries subscribe...
    about 1 month ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted