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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    Auto-update certificates for 1:1 connections

    Our customers who utilize 1:1 connections create enterprise apps in Entra and periodically the X509 certificates expire. We currently ask them to send us updated metadata xml with the new x509 certificate, then we manually upload the new metadata ...
    6 months ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration 0 Feedback wanted

    Show which username triggered the "insufficient attributes" authentication error

    We occasionally see "Authentication failed - insufficient attributes | Expected unique user id attribute not found" errors in OpenAthens Admin under Auditing. Currently, these error messages do not show which username experienced the problem. This...
    7 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    See more than just one year's usage at a time in Reports

    In Reports > Data explorer > Resources > Usage, you can only see one year's worth of usage at a time. If you want more than just one year's usage, you have to update the start and end dates, download the report, update the start and end d...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    Ability to obtain eduPersonTargetedIDs for users

    OpenAthens generates a unique eduPersonTargetedID value for each user. That attribute is frequently used to create personal user accounts with SAML-based SPs. It's how SPs remember the user on subsequent logins so they can pair them with their sav...
    7 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Share statistical report edited as we can see on administrators dashboard

    The statistical reports we can view in Reporting would ideally be exportable in their edited format, exactly as we administrators see them on the platform, so that they can be shared with others. It is unfortunate and a significant drawback that w...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

    Expand upon reports API

    The API does not really do much, I would like to be able to automatically import the data we are getting from it to another source since we have many forms of tracking user data. However, I cannot because the reports API only handles one type. I w...
    8 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    General Redirector URL

    I wanted to suggest a possible feature that could be useful for scenarios like the one we're facing with the resource Index to Hebrew Periodicals, which is used by various OpenAthens customers. Currently, the Catalog administrator cannot add a spe...
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Application configuration / Org discovery / WAYF (Wayfinder) 0 Feedback wanted

    Disaggregate transfer data for journals on my platform

    Make library transfer data more meaningful for all my customers by showing at journal level for my platform. Previously discussed with customers and OpenAthens.
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Reporting 1 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 "...
    10 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery

    Report for who created accounts especially self-registrations

    Our library recently implemented self-registration. We would enjoy being able to easily and accurately report from within OpenAthens how many accounts were created by Self-Registration. It would also be useful to know how many accounts were create...
    7 months ago in Librarians / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery