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.


Guidance on using this portal

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Library/web portal / MyAthens

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Add a 'category' to resources for MyAthens+ resource lists

It would be great if we could create custom 'category' labels for our resources, so that when we generate our list of resources in MyAthens+, we can have lists for different subject areas or categories that suit us.
21 days ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

MyAthens+ : More pages / improved navigation / better structure

Would like more tabs or pages to use within MyAthens+, rather than everything being on 1 page. It would be nice to be able to separate aspects of the information. So, on the front page, information about the library, then a separate page for their...
21 days ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 0 Feedback wanted

MyAthens+ UNDO button needed

It would be highly beneficial to have an "UNDO" button (or a feature that shows previous versions of the interface) when using the admin version of MyAthens. This would eliminate the need to rely on memory or screenshots to maintain the layout in ...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted