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+...
24 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Org discovery (Wayfinder) / Overall usability 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...
24 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Documentation / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 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...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Activating resources 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...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 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...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Proxy Feedback wanted

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...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 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...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information / Overall usability 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...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information Feedback wanted

IPv6 support for OpenAthens

We were notified by a few vendors that their platform now relies on IPv6 for access while OpenAthens currently supports IPv4 only and have no plans to implement it at this time. This creates access failures as more vendors and networks transition ...
4 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy Feedback wanted

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