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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    Allow sub orgs their own logo

    Please allow sub orgs to have their own logo. Our partner organisations are many and varied, and are not always under our direct umbrella. Having our logo display in some instances is misleading.
    3 days ago in Librarians / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    Customizable authentication page branding (HTML editor - more flexible CSS branding)

    Provide more flexible out-of-the-box branding customization for the authentication point (similar to EZProxy), ideally via a HTML editor or support for uploaded CSS/HTML files. At a minimum, libraries should be able to replace all the English text...
    about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Documentation / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 2 Feedback wanted

    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...
    11 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Reporting / Resource catalogue / Supporting other federations 6 Research & discovery

    Ability to transform attributes including the value from another attribute

    We would like to be able to use the value from an existing attribute (e.g. one passed in from local connector) to form part of a new attribute and add free text to it.e.g. SAMaccountName attribute (e.g. abc123) + our domain scope - to make abc123@...
    8 days ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted

    Scope EPPN when it is used as SAML NameID attribute

    We followed instructions to create EPPN attribute via local connector and it is scoped when released as urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.6, however our service provider requires the EPPN value to be mapped as SAML NameID and it is then released unsc...
    8 days ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted

    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...
    3 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

    Configurable html message or external link for resource not configured error. Option for notification

    When you used the OpenAthens redirector on a resource that's not configured and active an error page is displayed to the patron. this message / page can't currently be modified. It would be nice that we could add details and links to external syst...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Org information 6 Research & discovery

    Localise the User Interfaces (support translation to multiple languages, date formats, time zones)

    Please add support to localise the user interfaces (support translation to multiple languages, date formats, time zones). Key interfaces: Authentication point - personal account and brokered logins (not including delegated connector) MyAthens+...
    about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Org discovery (Wayfinder) / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    Ability to specify signing algorithm for custom SAML resources

    Service providers sometimes require signatures to use a specific algorithm, like SHA-256, for custom SAML connections. Currently, if the signing algorithm is not explicitely specified in the SP metadata within a signature block, OpenAthens will de...
    2 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources 1 Feedback wanted

    A Clear Pathway/Hub for Consistent Communications from Vendors to OpenAthens Regarding Platform Changes and Proxy Updates

    We know that vendors make frequent platform changes. In the past two months, I have worked with two vendors directly who had no idea that during and after platform changes, updates are likely needed for the OpenAthens managed proxy. Vendors to not...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Proxy 1 Feedback wanted