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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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 ...
3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 1 Research & discovery

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...
6 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy 5 Research & discovery

Multi-factor authentication for managed accounts

Some institutions require MFA for end-users as part of their due diligence process. Can MFA for end-users be made available within OpenAthens, specifically for managed accounts?
8 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

Users receive non relevant errors messages

For example a user when changing password received a 'invalid activation code' message. It didn't explain to the user what they had done wrong. Another example a user was renewing their account and got the password word wrong they received the mes...
2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Overall usability  / Terminology 0 Feedback wanted

Bypass organization or OpenAthens login page

When our users are prompted to log in, they must select our organization or OpenAthens as a choice for authentication, and we would prefer that they never see this page. We do not want them to have the choice to select OpenAthens. Our users do not...
7 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 9 Research & discovery

Video for students

create a video for students about what OA is and how to use it
8 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 1 Research & discovery

OA Redirector: Allow access mechanism selection.

We use OpenAthens and the OpenAthens Proxy.The Redirector will always use Federated access whenever it's available. Some resources do not work well with Federated access, which is why we Proxy them.e.g. Some do not allow deep linking through their...
5 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy / Redirector 0 Feedback wanted

MyAthens URL with embedded Access Account logins

We are looking for a MyAthens access URL that includes the username and password embedded into it. This access URL would be shared with users that are on-site using the Access Account(the MD account that requires you to be on a registered IP). Thi...
5 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Create a separate login page that is not connected to SAML for other types of users

We do not want to turn on the landing page that makes our patrons choose how to authenticate bc most of the time we are using SAML. We would like a separate log in page for guest accounts to use for community patrons, vendors, and alumni.
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens 3 Feedback wanted

Terms of use page

E-resources licensing agreements sometimes require that institutions use reasonable methods to inform their users about restrictions on the terms of use (i.e. non-commercial, no reverse engineering, etc.). Libraries have few good options for putti...
6 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 Feedback wanted