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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    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+...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Org discovery (Wayfinder) / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    Timestamps reflecting local time zone

    It would be helpful to have timestamps in the admin dashboard reflect the institution's local time zone, rather than automatically deferring to GMT.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

    Provide a link from the Reports dashboard back to the Admin dashboard

    In the Admin dashboard I often click Statistics > Reporting to get to the reporting dashboard. But I haven't found a way to get back to the Admin dashboard. Please either provide a link back to the main Admin dashboard, or in the Admin menu, op...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 2 Research & discovery

    The Authentication "Holy Grail": Collaborate Toward a Means for Users to Access Content Across Multiple Affiliations

    As OpenAthens gains marketshare in the library authentication landscape, it has become highly likely, especially in consortial environments, that a library user may belong to 2 or more organizations that use OpenAthens as the primary means of auth...
    6 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Org discovery (Wayfinder) / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    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@...
    about 1 month 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...
    about 1 month ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted

    Show UX when editing Login area

    Dear OpenAthens Team, We would like to raise a suggestion to show live UX picture example on the right-hand side when editing the login area for Display Names, Description, logo, etc. What it is currently: Ticket 2 Show UX 1A and 1B What we are th...
    4 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information / Overall usability 0 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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 3 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...
    9 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Longer-lasting sessions/cookies

    1. Make the "Access code" requrement take much longer to re-appear (months instead of weeks). Being required to wait for this code so often is disruptive to workflow. At least IP-validate on site like it once did. 2. Make the session times much lo...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 4 Research & discovery