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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User accounts and permission sets

    Ability to copy existing permission set

    USE CASE:We sometimes need to ‘duplicate’ a permission set when established clients need to change group/statistics OR purchases a new resource that needs to be 'limited' to a new group. CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY:There is no ‘duplicate this permission...
    about 2 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    More help for users with multiple accounts

    Please make it easier to have multiple accounts. i.e. student at 2 institutions with 2 OpenAthens accounts gets locked out regularly from one or the other
    8 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    Export a list of all resources assigned to a certain permission set

    If I want to get a list of all resources assigned to a certain group of users, I can do a search and see the tiles listed on-screen, but I can't export a list of them. Would be great to be able to export lists like this simply eg as a csv, to make...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 3 Research & discovery

    Allow restricted mode on a per resource basis (with permissive mode enabled)

    I have a request to restrict access to certain specific resources to certain groups of our users. OpenAthens allows for either:Restrictive mode - Each and every resource is allocated based on Permission sets.Permissive Mode - Everyone can access E...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    Add a column setting for “Last Sign In”

    "Add a 'Last Sign In' column for managed accounts in the users/accounts list, displayed in both the admin interface and the exported file, mirroring the functionality available for local accounts.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 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?
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    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...
    7 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Request to make First Name and Last Name non-mandatory for Bulk Upload

    Currently, when we bulk upload personal accounts in the OpenAthens admin, both First Name and Last Name are mandatory. In some cases, it is difficult to export users' forenames and surnames separately. If either First Name or Last Name (or both...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 4 Research & discovery

    The ability to assign on-prem IP ranges to permission sets

    We have our system configured to allow access to resources without authentication if the user is on a pair of recognized, on-prem, IP ranges. This works for most resources; however we have a few resources that are restricted to one IP range only. ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 2 Research & discovery