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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    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...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information / Overall usability 0 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...
    5 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Org discovery (Wayfinder) / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    Expand scheduled reports to include Annual, Biannual and quarterly reports.

    We need to report on time segments larger than a week or a month. It would be great to be able to schedule these Annually, Biannually, and Quarterly.
    6 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 2 Feedback wanted

    Resource Catalog Export with Direct URLs

    Allow allocated resources to be exported with direct URLs.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 2 Feedback wanted

    A way to add alternative organisation names for use in discovery

    My users know their organisation by many acronyms and abbreviations. It'd be great if there were a way to add these to the find-my-organisation search.
    10 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 1 Feedback wanted

    Ability to apply IP authentication to OpenAthens admin login in addition to username/password

    Currently, login to the OpenAthens admin portal is available via username and password only. The customer would like the option to add IP authentication as an additional security measure. This way, even if the username and password are compromised...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators 2 Feedback wanted

    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...
    9 months ago in Librarians / Proxy / Redirector 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
    9 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    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...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 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...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information 0 Feedback wanted