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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    MyAthens+ UNDO button needed

    It would be highly beneficial to have an "UNDO" button (or a feature that shows previous versions of the interface) when using the admin version of MyAthens. This would eliminate the need to rely on memory or screenshots to maintain the layout in ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    'Group' filter - scroll bar required

    We would like to make a request that a scroll bar is made visible when there are multiple groups to choose from when assigning a personal account to a particular group. Please see attached picture for reference. Currently, we are being shown 15 gr...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Publish the metadata for all of my 1:1 connections in a private XML file

    I would like to be able to get a feed of the metadata for all of my 1:1 connections so that I can populate my back end system(s) with organization information for authorization and/or populating my discovery service. This feed must only be visible...
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration / Org discovery / WAYF (Wayfinder) 0 Feedback wanted

    Make it easier to edit text/offer guidance in the "Domain" area across more than one IdP connection

    When an institution has more than one connection (student/faculty & staff) it should be simpler to edit the OpenAthens login screen in domain settings, and admins should be able to edit text and messages all in one place.
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    Stop requiring AssertionConsumerServiceURL parameter inside SAML requests

    As explained in OASD-27648, the OpenAthens IdP requires SAML requests to identify the SP’s “AssertionConsumerServiceURL=” or else OpenAthens will throw the following Bad Request error: “Could not establish assertion consumer service url for…“ OASD...
    about 1 year ago in Publishers / * Other 3 Already exists

    Remove unused titles and subscriptions

    We were informed we could not remove no longer subscribed to titles in our admin area. Due to the set up of our resources, we manage a suite of differnt user groups, so when logging into our admin area, we would only like to see current subs. Alth...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue / Search and navigation 1 Research & discovery

    Put Allocated Resources in A-Z order in the Data Explorer dropdown list

    Only include Allocated Resources in the Data Explorer dropdown list and put them in A-Z order. Including just the library's Allocated Resources and arranging them in A-Z order in the Data Explorer dropdown list would make it easier for librarians ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting / Resource catalogue / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery

    Move the user search to be more aligned with where one searches and results appear.

    The user experience when searching for users has been improved with logic, etc. but the process still begins in the bar well above and outside the visual scope of where search results appear, and then separated by a grey banner.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery

    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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery