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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    Snapshot Feature for Rapid Rollback

    , I would like to propose an additional feature to further improve system recovery and minimize service disruptions caused by human errors. To facilitate quick rollback and resolution, we request the implementation of automatic system snapshots ta...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 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 "...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery

    Finding accounts without allocated permissions

    It would be valuable to be able to filter for accounts without an allocated permission set, or to run a report to generate a list of accounts without an allocated permission set. We use a local connection to Okta for our accounts but occasionally ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Ability to sort account status

    We use SSO for our account management in Athens. I manage the administration on suspended accounts for assessment. I would like to be able to sort the Status column to just see our suspended accounts instead of scrolling through lists.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Email templates - how to create more

    I would like to suggest an enhancement to the current email template functionality, specifically the ability to create and assign customised email templates based on user groups. Currently, the system uses a generic email template for account crea...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    Users receive non relevant errors messages

    For example a user when changing password received a 'invalid activation code' message. It didn't explain to the user what they had done wrong. Another example a user was renewing their account and got the password word wrong they received the mes...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Overall usability  / Terminology 0 Feedback wanted

    Create a marketplace for librarians to see latest offers from publishers

    Picture in the SP dashboard, a place to manage their 'marketplace presence' - upload a logo, information on the services, contact details, and the option to add and pay for a promotion. Meanwhile, the IDP dashboard has a 'Marketplace' tab. OpenAth...
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / * Other 1 Feedback wanted

    Make OpenAthens' aggregated SP reporting data available via an API

    I already use internal dashboards to consume external data sources. I would like to be able to add OpenAthens Federation reporting data to those dashboards.
    almost 2 years ago in Publishers / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

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

    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...
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration 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.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted