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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    End-to-end APIs for application management

    I would like for OpenAthens to publish a suite of APIs that I can hook-up to my internal systems so that I do not have to visit OpenAthens' service provider dashboard to performs actions such as; setting up new federated connections enabling feder...
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Application configuration / Keystone configuration / Supporting other federations 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...
    about 1 year ago in Publishers / * Other 1 Feedback wanted

    Be able to report on multiline text fields

    As a library admin I want to be able to report on multiline text attribute so I can get more granular data out of OpenAthens. If you have a text custom schema attribute such as:coursesEnrolled where it can contain a value like:"Math, Information T...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting 0 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.
    over 1 year 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

    I would like to have a date field account created in the login section

    in the login section there is a last login info, but no account created field, this could be helpful for BI statistics and other library operations
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    Report for rejected OpenAthens account registrations

    could you generate a report on instances where people registered for an account but were rejected (due to issues like incorrect email addresses/not a member of institution) At the moment we are archiving the email alerts but would like to be able ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 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...
    12 months ago in Publishers / * Other 3 Already exists

    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

    Support multiple language (including Japanese) for Report with Managed Directory customers

    Please kindly consider to support multiple languages (including Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, Thai, etc) officially in Report function with Managed Directory customers. Currently only English is supported with this. If multiple languages c...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted