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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    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...
    11 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Documentation / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 2 Feedback wanted

    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+...
    11 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Org discovery (Wayfinder) / Overall usability 0 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 1 month 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...
    about 1 month ago in Librarians / Proxy 1 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...
    27 days ago in Librarians / Activating 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...
    about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    Referring URL in error messages

    Users often screenshot the error message they get from OpenAthens but neglect to tell us which platform they were trying to access a resource through - just being able to see what URL they were trying to access would shorten resolution and diagnos...
    10 months ago in Librarians 1 Feedback wanted

    Admin access via SSO for security purposes

    For security purposes our company would require to access to the OpenAthens admin portal via SSO. We know that this feature is not available at the moment and that the access is only available via username and password. Are you planning to impleme...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators 8 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 0 Feedback wanted

    To implement a third-level breakdown in reporting as the current OpenAthens reports only offer a two-level resource breakdown, which limits the depth of analysis.

    We require a consolidated report that includes Resource Name, Username, PG Code, and Usage Count, based on unique users, for analysis. Currently, there is no overlap between the reports that would allow for an XLOOKUP to merge PG Code or Username.
    11 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 3 Feedback wanted