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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    Read only view of Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings for Administrators

    Currently OAMD allows two types of Admin Roles in the platform, Administrator and Owner. Owner has enhanced access in that it can edit Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings. Administrators have no access to these areas at all, which...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Research & discovery

    Longer-lasting sessions/cookies

    1. Make the "Access code" requrement take much longer to re-appear (months instead of weeks). Being required to wait for this code so often is disruptive to workflow. At least IP-validate on site like it once did. 2. Make the session times much lo...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 4 Research & discovery

    notification any time a new resource gets added to Compatible Providers search

    It would be great to have a way to get a notification any time a new resource gets added or updated in the Compatible Providers search. I want to know when new cards are added so I can proactively see if I need to allocate them. https://www.openat...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

    Option to auto-activate new resource tiles for already activated publishers

    I’d like to see auto-activation of resource tiles as an option. If we have a publisher’s resource tile activated and another one becomes available for them, I would like that to activate automatically either according to template options that we s...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Activating resources 0 Research & discovery

    Ability to export and import settings configurations in OA Admin

    Develop support for exporting and importing OpenAthens Admin settings via XML file. Use case #1: Onboarding When setting up a new library, upload a file of their customizations and preferences so that less manual work (e.g. clicking, typing, searc...
    9 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / OpenAthens support  / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    Remember my computer for longer

    I would like less frequent requests to confirm access codes when I'm on the same device.
    9 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted

    Allocate a list of resources via file upload

    While it would be great to export a list of resources currently allocated to a Permission Set (see IDP-I-45), it would also help if we could do the reverse and allocate resources by way of a file upload (such as .CSV). Then we could basically "cop...
    9 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Resource catalogue / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Improve readability of domains in Link Format field

    The Link Format field of each resource contains a URL that is applied to one or more web domains for that publisher. The domains appear only in a popup box upon mousing over the text box containing the URL. In many cases, such as the resource Else...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 2 Feedback wanted

    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

    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