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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    Prioritize/Rank/Re-order OpenAthens Federation results in Wayfinder institutional discovery search

    If an institution has membership in multiple federations (such as OpenAthens and InCommon), when a library patron searches for their institution name in an OpenAthens Wayfinder "Find your institution" search, they will see multiple results that al...
    11 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 1 Feedback wanted

    Multi-factor authentication for managed accounts

    Some institutions require MFA for end-users as part of their due diligence process. Can MFA for end-users be made available within OpenAthens, specifically for managed accounts?
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    OA Redirector: Allow access mechanism selection.

    We use OpenAthens and the OpenAthens Proxy.The Redirector will always use Federated access whenever it's available. Some resources do not work well with Federated access, which is why we Proxy them.e.g. Some do not allow deep linking through their...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy / Redirector 0 Research & discovery

    Have OpenAthens' SP reporting data report on unique users

    The reports tell me the quantity of transfers to my products from a particular organization, in a given timeframe, but not how many unique users these transfers equate to; is it 100 people transferring once each, or 1 person transferring 100 times?
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

    IPv6 support for OpenAthens

    We were notified by a few vendors that their platform now relies on IPv6 for access while OpenAthens currently supports IPv4 only and have no plans to implement it at this time. This creates access failures as more vendors and networks transition ...
    6 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy 1 Feedback wanted

    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 ...
    8 months ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration 0 Feedback wanted

    Additional Sign In Logo Options

    Dear OpenAthens Team, We would like to raise a suggestion to provide an option to put in additional logo or pictures in 2 login areas for organizations under umbrella companies or transnational education programs with other universities. What it i...
    4 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    Video for students

    create a video for students about what OA is and how to use it
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 1 Research & discovery

    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

    Bypass organization or OpenAthens login page

    When our users are prompted to log in, they must select our organization or OpenAthens as a choice for authentication, and we would prefer that they never see this page. We do not want them to have the choice to select OpenAthens. Our users do not...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 9 Research & discovery