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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    Ability to transform attributes including the value from another attribute

    We would like to be able to use the value from an existing attribute (e.g. one passed in from local connector) to form part of a new attribute and add free text to it.e.g. SAMaccountName attribute (e.g. abc123) + our domain scope - to make abc123@...
    19 days ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted

    Scope EPPN when it is used as SAML NameID attribute

    We followed instructions to create EPPN attribute via local connector and it is scoped when released as urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.6, however our service provider requires the EPPN value to be mapped as SAML NameID and it is then released unsc...
    19 days ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted

    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?
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

    Auto-update certificates for 1:1 connections

    Our customers who utilize 1:1 connections create enterprise apps in Entra and periodically the X509 certificates expire. We currently ask them to send us updated metadata xml with the new x509 certificate, then we manually upload the new metadata ...
    7 months ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration 0 Feedback wanted

    Ability to obtain eduPersonTargetedIDs for users

    OpenAthens generates a unique eduPersonTargetedID value for each user. That attribute is frequently used to create personal user accounts with SAML-based SPs. It's how SPs remember the user on subsequent logins so they can pair them with their sav...
    8 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 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...
    over 1 year 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.
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

    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...
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Application configuration / Keystone configuration / Supporting other federations 0 Feedback wanted

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Publishers / * Other 1 Feedback wanted

    Be able to report on multiline text fields

    As a library admin I want to be able to report on multiline text attribute so I can get more granular data out of OpenAthens. If you have a text custom schema attribute such as:coursesEnrolled where it can contain a value like:"Math, Information T...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted