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.

Just sign in with your email to share your thoughts or vote for ideas you like—it'll help them get noticed!


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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    Documentation with Detailed Instructions for Publishers to Whitelist OpenAthens in their Cloudflare Security Settings

    These days, many publishers are using security products such as Cloudflare, and they end up blocking the OpenAthens proxy server at least once for each new OpenAthens customer. This creates extra work to contact those publishers and request that t...
    3 days ago in Publishers 1 Actioned

    Adding a personal account / admin account should be combined somehow

    When adding a personal account in OpenAthens, you need to create an account, then go to the 'Preferences' - 'Organisation' option, then go to the 'Administrator' tab to give them the account admin permissions needed. To save extra steps, perhaps t...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 2 Actioned