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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Configurable html message or external link for resource not configured error. Option for notification

When you used the OpenAthens redirector on a resource that's not configured and active an error page is displayed to the patron. this message / page can't currently be modified. It would be nice that we could add details and links to external syst...
8 months ago in Librarians / Org information 6 Research & discovery

Timestamps reflecting local time zone

It would be helpful to have timestamps in the admin dashboard reflect the institution's local time zone, rather than automatically deferring to GMT.
12 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

Have OpenAthens' SP reporting data report on unique users

The reports tell me the quantity of transfers to my products from a particular organization, in a given timeframe, but not how many unique users these transfers equate to; is it 100 people transferring once each, or 1 person transferring 100 times?
12 months ago in Publishers / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

General Redirector URL

I wanted to suggest a possible feature that could be useful for scenarios like the one we're facing with the resource Index to Hebrew Periodicals, which is used by various OpenAthens customers. Currently, the Catalog administrator cannot add a spe...
10 months ago in Publishers / Application configuration / Org discovery / WAYF (Wayfinder) 0 Feedback wanted

Disaggregate transfer data for journals on my platform

Make library transfer data more meaningful for all my customers by showing at journal level for my platform. Previously discussed with customers and OpenAthens.
about 1 year ago in Publishers / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

Stop requiring AssertionConsumerServiceURL parameter inside SAML requests

As explained in OASD-27648, the OpenAthens IdP requires SAML requests to identify the SP’s “AssertionConsumerServiceURL=” or else OpenAthens will throw the following Bad Request error: “Could not establish assertion consumer service url for…“ OASD...
6 months ago in Publishers / * Other 3 Already exists

Create a marketplace for librarians to see latest offers from publishers

Picture in the SP dashboard, a place to manage their 'marketplace presence' - upload a logo, information on the services, contact details, and the option to add and pay for a promotion. Meanwhile, the IDP dashboard has a 'Marketplace' tab. OpenAth...
6 months ago in Publishers / * Other 1 Feedback wanted

End-to-end APIs for application management

I would like for OpenAthens to publish a suite of APIs that I can hook-up to my internal systems so that I do not have to visit OpenAthens' service provider dashboard to performs actions such as; setting up new federated connections enabling feder...
12 months ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration / Supporting other federations 0 Feedback wanted

Email templates - how to create more

I would like to suggest an enhancement to the current email template functionality, specifically the ability to create and assign customised email templates based on user groups. Currently, the system uses a generic email template for account crea...
10 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

Make OpenAthens' aggregated SP reporting data available via an API

I already use internal dashboards to consume external data sources. I would like to be able to add OpenAthens Federation reporting data to those dashboards.
12 months ago in Publishers / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted