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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Remember my computer for longer

I would like less frequent requests to confirm access codes when I'm on the same device.
13 days ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted

Show which username triggered the "insufficient attributes" authentication error

We occasionally see "Authentication failed - insufficient attributes | Expected unique user id attribute not found" errors in OpenAthens Admin under Auditing. Currently, these error messages do not show which username experienced the problem. This...
18 days ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Possibility of restricting personal OpenAthens accounts to specific IP addresses

Access accounts are often not the best choice when access to resources needs to be restricted to specific IP addresses (e.g., on-campus locations). This is because some providers require authentication using personal information, such as individua...
10 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Referring URL in error messages

Users often screenshot the error message they get from OpenAthens but neglect to tell us which platform they were trying to access a resource through - just being able to see what URL they were trying to access would shorten resolution and diagnos...
4 months ago in Librarians 1 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.
3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 1 Feedback wanted

Enhance Link Generator to Convert Proxied URLs

I’d like to request an enhancement to the OpenAthens Link Generator tool (example: https://go.openathens.net/generate/myInstitution.edu/123456787 to improve its ability to handle generic proxied URLs. Currently, the generator successfully converts...
2 months ago in Librarians / Proxy / Redirector 0 Feedback wanted

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...
19 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 0 Feedback wanted

Ability to apply IP authentication to OpenAthens admin login in addition to username/password

Currently, login to the OpenAthens admin portal is available via username and password only. The customer would like the option to add IP authentication as an additional security measure. This way, even if the username and password are compromised...
6 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 2 Feedback wanted

Report for who created accounts especially self-registrations

Our library recently implemented self-registration. We would enjoy being able to easily and accurately report from within OpenAthens how many accounts were created by Self-Registration. It would also be useful to know how many accounts were create...
23 days ago in Librarians / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Expand upon reports API

The API does not really do much, I would like to be able to automatically import the data we are getting from it to another source since we have many forms of tracking user data. However, I cannot because the reports API only handles one type. I w...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted