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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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Librarians

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MyAthens+ Web analytics / statistics

To help research and understand user behaviour, it would be great if MyAthens+ recorded some basic web analytics data such as link clicks/search box usage. Ideally categorised by user attributes (like other OpenAthens statistics) while preserving ...
6 days ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

MyAthens+ LibKey DOI/PMID lookup box

MyAthens+ already supports a few types of search box to enable resource discovery. A libkey.io DOI and PubMed ID lookup search box for mutual customers would be great. It would allow users seeking a specific reference to check for and access full ...
9 days ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

Keep a change log for allocated resources in the catalogue

Currently in the resources catalogue, there is very little information available to an institution outside of the resource details. It would be really helpful to have an additional tab on each resource where the system records any changes applied ...
9 days ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

Automatically apply redirector syntax for curated resource list

It would be great for the MyAthens+ curated resource list to automatically apply WAYFless syntax, rather than updating the access URL in the resource catalogue.
12 days ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

Resource Catalog Export with Direct URLs

Allow allocated resources to be exported with direct URLs.
13 days ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

Get 1:1/custom SAML resource configurations into the OA Federation - IDP

As we have seen with the recent OA certificate update its been difficult and confusing to get some of these resources to make updates. What will happen 10 years from now when there is even more of them? What can be done to get these resources into...
13 days ago in Librarians / Activating resources 1 Feedback wanted

Add a column setting for “Last Sign In”

"Add a 'Last Sign In' column for managed accounts in the users/accounts list, displayed in both the admin interface and the exported file, mirroring the functionality available for local accounts.
21 days ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Feedback wanted

Terms of use page

E-resources licensing agreements sometimes require that institutions use reasonable methods to inform their users about restrictions on the terms of use (i.e. non-commercial, no reverse engineering, etc.). Libraries have few good options for putti...
23 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 Feedback wanted

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.
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 0 Feedback wanted