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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Complete revamp of "Compatible Resources" Page and Info: Include comprehensive vendor list and detailed instructions on how all supported vendors are to be set up.

The comprehensive list should live inside of OpenAthens admin, but it should also be publicly available, replacing the unclear, low information entries now seen in the compatible providers list. The listing/database should contain information incl...
4 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Reporting / Resource catalogue / Supporting other federations 2 Research & discovery

Keep a change log for allocated resources in the catalogue

Currently in the resources catalogue, there is very little information available to an institution outside of the resource details. It would be really helpful to have an additional tab on each resource where the system records any changes applied ...
9 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Resource catalogue 2 Research & discovery

notification any time a new resource gets added to Compatible Providers search

It would be great to have a way to get a notification any time a new resource gets added or updated in the Compatible Providers search. I want to know when new cards are added so I can proactively see if I need to allocate them. https://www.openat...
5 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

Resource Catalog Export with Direct URLs

Allow allocated resources to be exported with direct URLs.
9 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 2 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?
12 months ago in Publishers / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

Improve readability of domains in Link Format field

The Link Format field of each resource contains a URL that is applied to one or more web domains for that publisher. The domains appear only in a popup box upon mousing over the text box containing the URL. In many cases, such as the resource Else...
6 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 2 Feedback wanted

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...
10 months 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.
about 1 year ago in Publishers / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

Stop requiring AssertionConsumerServiceURL parameter inside SAML requests

As explained in OASD-27648, the OpenAthens IdP requires SAML requests to identify the SP’s “AssertionConsumerServiceURL=” or else OpenAthens will throw the following Bad Request error: “Could not establish assertion consumer service url for…“ OASD...
6 months ago in Publishers / * Other 3 Already exists

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...
6 months ago in Publishers / * Other 1 Feedback wanted