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.

Just sign in with your email to share your thoughts or vote for ideas you like—it'll help them get noticed!


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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    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...
    5 days ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 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...
    5 days ago in Librarians / Proxy 0 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...
    8 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Reporting / Resource catalogue / Supporting other federations 4 Research & discovery

    Double Authentication for OpenAthens Personal Accounts

    Dear OpenAthens Team, We would like to raise a suggestion to OpenAthens to provide an option for two factor authentication for access codes for personal accounts. In our situation, we require two factor authentication to follow our compliance with...
    9 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 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...
    9 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    Additional Sign In Logo Options

    Dear OpenAthens Team, We would like to raise a suggestion to provide an option to put in additional logo or pictures in 2 login areas for organizations under umbrella companies or transnational education programs with other universities. What it i...
    9 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information 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...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Org information 6 Research & discovery

    Managing credentials for non-compatible resources within OpenAthens

    With a large number of platforms and resources that remain incompatible with OpenAthens, managing their credentials separately in external systems has become an increasingly complex and time-consuming task for organizations. Given OpenAthens' role...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy 6 Research & discovery

    Improve support for DOI links within the OpenAthens Redirector

    We have been having issues linking to content from Sage vis the OpenAthens Redirector. This is due to the OpenAthens Redirector not honouring the URL registered against the DOI reference (e.g. As an example you can use the Crossref API to look at ...
    10 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 2 Research & discovery

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery