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

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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...
16 days ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Add "includes" as another option besides "matches" in the Advanced Search

We are not able to know how many active accounts exist at any given time by user group. Each local account has multiple Groups (an attribute) associated with it. Being able to use "includes" logic for Account attributes in the Advanced Search woul...
9 days ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

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?
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

'Group' filter - scroll bar required

We would like to make a request that a scroll bar is made visible when there are multiple groups to choose from when assigning a personal account to a particular group. Please see attached picture for reference. Currently, we are being shown 15 gr...
15 days ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

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...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Feedback wanted

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...
8 days ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / 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...
9 days ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

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. ...
9 days ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Ability to sort account status

We use SSO for our account management in Athens. I manage the administration on suspended accounts for assessment. I would like to be able to sort the Status column to just see our suspended accounts instead of scrolling through lists.
9 days ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

I would like to have a date field account created in the login section

in the login section there is a last login info, but no account created field, this could be helpful for BI statistics and other library operations
15 days ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted