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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    Add OpenAthens Redirector statistics to the Reporting Dashboard (usage by domain, errors and IP bypass)

    Add Redirector Statistics and Error Reporting to the OpenAthens Reporting Dashboard to restore lost functionality and deliver new insights for libraries. Why This Matters: Visibility: Libraries currently lack data on IP bypass usage, limiting th...
    about 2 months ago in Librarians / Redirector / Reporting 0 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...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Allocate a list of resources via file upload

    While it would be great to export a list of resources currently allocated to a Permission Set (see IDP-I-45), it would also help if we could do the reverse and allocate resources by way of a file upload (such as .CSV). Then we could basically "cop...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Resource catalogue / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Ability for the Redirector to double-encode the target URL

    Some publishers have a complicated linking syntax with many layers of information, and in order to fully preserve the original target URL throughout the journey, it must be encoded more than once. For example, Bloomsbury Digital Resources. This {t...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 0 Research & discovery

    Report for who created accounts especially self-registrations

    Our library recently implemented self-registration. We would enjoy being able to easily and accurately report from within OpenAthens how many accounts were created by Self-Registration. It would also be useful to know how many accounts were create...
    4 months ago in Librarians / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    More help for users with multiple accounts

    Please make it easier to have multiple accounts. i.e. student at 2 institutions with 2 OpenAthens accounts gets locked out regularly from one or the other
    5 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    Enhance Link Generator to Convert Proxied URLs

    I’d like to request an enhancement to the OpenAthens Link Generator tool (example: https://go.openathens.net/generate/myInstitution.edu/123456787 to improve its ability to handle generic proxied URLs. Currently, the generator successfully converts...
    5 months ago in Librarians / Proxy / Redirector 0 Research & discovery

    Feature Request: Enhance Dashboard Auditing Page

    Currently, the dashboard auditing page lacks the ability to search or download auditing logs. This limitation makes it difficult to locate logs for specific accounts or export them for external auditing and compliance purposes. Additionally, the "...
    6 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery

    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...
    6 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Reporting / Resource catalogue / Supporting other federations 2 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 ...
    8 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 2 Research & discovery