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 separate login page that is not connected to SAML for other types of users

    We do not want to turn on the landing page that makes our patrons choose how to authenticate bc most of the time we are using SAML. We would like a separate log in page for guest accounts to use for community patrons, vendors, and alumni.
    11 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens 3 Feedback wanted

    Users receive non relevant errors messages

    For example a user when changing password received a 'invalid activation code' message. It didn't explain to the user what they had done wrong. Another example a user was renewing their account and got the password word wrong they received the mes...
    12 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Overall usability  / Terminology 0 Feedback wanted

    Terms of use page

    E-resources licensing agreements sometimes require that institutions use reasonable methods to inform their users about restrictions on the terms of use (i.e. non-commercial, no reverse engineering, etc.). Libraries have few good options for putti...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 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

    Change the messaging on the log in screen around the link to reset openathens password from problems logging in to Reset your password/ Register

    Problems logging in seems to be not specific enough for our users. We are getting tickets opened on our help desk looking to reset openathens passwords, when the user should be able to do this themselves. Additionally, this text does not convey th...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 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

    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

    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

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Publishers / * Other 3 Already exists