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

    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 ...
    7 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 2 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?
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / User accounts and permission sets 0 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...
    10 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy / Redirector 0 Research & discovery

    Allocate a list of resources via file upload

    While it would be great to export a list of resources currently allocated to a Permission Set (see IDP-I-45), it would also help if we could do the reverse and allocate resources by way of a file upload (such as .CSV). Then we could basically "cop...
    about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Resource catalogue / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Video for students

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

    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...
    11 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 9 Research & discovery

    Ability for the Redirector to double-encode the target URL

    Some publishers have a complicated linking syntax with many layers of information, and in order to fully preserve the original target URL throughout the journey, it must be encoded more than once. For example, Bloomsbury Digital Resources. This {t...
    about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 0 Research & discovery

    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...
    9 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery