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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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 month ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy 4 Research & discovery

'Read-only' administrator access for reporting.

'Read-only' view of the OpenAthens reports. To be in the form of a new administrator 'role'. There are often stakeholders at organisations who need/want access to the reports, but who should not have access to the rest of the admin dashboard.
4 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting 2 Research & discovery

Timestamps reflecting local time zone

It would be helpful to have timestamps in the admin dashboard reflect the institution's local time zone, rather than automatically deferring to GMT.
5 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

Reporting data

Need better granularity of resource access data to help us determine subscription renewals.
6 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 3 Research & discovery

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 month ago in Librarians / Org information 0 Research & discovery

Multi-factor authentication for managed accounts

Some institutions require MFA for end-users as part of their due diligence process. Can MFA for end-users be made available within OpenAthens, specifically for managed accounts?
4 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

Disaggregate transfer data for journals on my platform

Make library transfer data more meaningful for all my customers by showing at journal level for my platform. Previously discussed with customers and OpenAthens.
6 months ago in Publishers / Reporting 1 Research & discovery