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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Reporting

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'Read-only' administrator access for reporting.

'Read-only' view of the OpenAthens reports. To be in the form of a new administrator 'role'. There are often stakeholders at organisations who need/want access to the reports, but who should not have access to the rest of the admin dashboard.
6 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting 2 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.
7 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

Reporting data

Need better granularity of resource access data to help us determine subscription renewals.
8 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 3 Research & discovery

Fulltext Usage

Currently, OpenAthens provides the session/login counts for publishers/patrons. We cannot identify their actual FT usage of resources accessed via OA. This feature would be a great value addition for all OA users and administrators.
6 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

Download graphs as PDFs

It would be helpful if librarians could download graphs in the reporting module as PDFs, as this would save time when sharing usage reports with management during the subscription renewal period.
7 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

Share statistical report edited as we can see on administrators dashboard

The statistical reports we can view in Reporting would ideally be exportable in their edited format, exactly as we administrators see them on the platform, so that they can be shared with others. It is unfortunate and a significant drawback that w...
5 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

Put Allocated Resources in A-Z order in the Data Explorer dropdown list

Only include Allocated Resources in the Data Explorer dropdown list and put them in A-Z order. Including just the library's Allocated Resources and arranging them in A-Z order in the Data Explorer dropdown list would make it easier for librarians ...
5 months ago in Librarians / Reporting / Resource catalogue / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery