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.

Just sign in with your email to share your thoughts or vote for ideas you like—it'll help them get noticed!


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.


Guidance on using this portal

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My votes: Accessing resources

    MyAthens URL with embedded Access Account logins

    We are looking for a MyAthens access URL that includes the username and password embedded into it. This access URL would be shared with users that are on-site using the Access Account(the MD account that requires you to be on a registered IP). Thi...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Ability for the Redirector to double-encode the target URL

    Some publishers have a complicated linking syntax with many layers of information, and in order to fully preserve the original target URL throughout the journey, it must be encoded more than once. For example, Bloomsbury Digital Resources. This {t...
    7 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 0 Research & discovery