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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    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...
    2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Documentation / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 2 Feedback wanted

    Managing credentials for non-compatible resources within OpenAthens

    With a large number of platforms and resources that remain incompatible with OpenAthens, managing their credentials separately in external systems has become an increasingly complex and time-consuming task for organizations. Given OpenAthens' role...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy 7 Research & discovery

    Localise the User Interfaces (support translation to multiple languages, date formats, time zones)

    Please add support to localise the user interfaces (support translation to multiple languages, date formats, time zones). Key interfaces: Authentication point - personal account and brokered logins (not including delegated connector) MyAthens+...
    2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Org discovery (Wayfinder) / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    Improve support for DOI links within the OpenAthens Redirector

    We have been having issues linking to content from Sage vis the OpenAthens Redirector. This is due to the OpenAthens Redirector not honouring the URL registered against the DOI reference (e.g. As an example you can use the Crossref API to look at ...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 3 Research & discovery

    The Authentication "Holy Grail": Collaborate Toward a Means for Users to Access Content Across Multiple Affiliations

    As OpenAthens gains marketshare in the library authentication landscape, it has become highly likely, especially in consortial environments, that a library user may belong to 2 or more organizations that use OpenAthens as the primary means of auth...
    6 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Org discovery (Wayfinder) / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    Allow libraries to set a Redirector "link path" (WAYFLess deep-link syntax) for Custom SAML resources

    CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: In the OpenAthens resource catalogue redirector settings include: redirectable flags, target domains and link path(s). These settings are managed centrally by JISC and/or the federated Service Provider. Only federated OR pro...
    2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) / Redirector 0 Feedback wanted

    Show UX when editing Login area

    Dear OpenAthens Team, We would like to raise a suggestion to show live UX picture example on the right-hand side when editing the login area for Display Names, Description, logo, etc. What it is currently: Ticket 2 Show UX 1A and 1B What we are th...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    Redirector "domain bypass" - let admins whitelist target domains where authentication isn't required (equivalent to EZProxy's NeverProxy or RedirectSafe functionality)

    ENHANCEMENT REQUEST Add a 'Domain Bypass' OR "Domain Whitelist" to the Preferences --> Redirector section of OA admin BUSINESS NEED: Redirector links must have some local flexibility to improve the compatibility with third-party library systems...
    2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 0 Feedback wanted

    A way to add alternative organisation names for use in discovery

    My users know their organisation by many acronyms and abbreviations. It'd be great if there were a way to add these to the find-my-organisation search.
    11 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 1 Feedback wanted

    Prioritize/Rank/Re-order OpenAthens Federation results in Wayfinder institutional discovery search

    If an institution has membership in multiple federations (such as OpenAthens and InCommon), when a library patron searches for their institution name in an OpenAthens Wayfinder "Find your institution" search, they will see multiple results that al...
    11 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 1 Feedback wanted