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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    Redirector "domain bypass" - let admins whitelist target domains where authentication isn't required (equivalent to EZProxy's NeverProxy or RedirectSafe functionality)

    ENHANCEMENT REQUEST Add a 'Domain Bypass' OR "Domain Whitelist" to the Preferences --> Redirector section of OA admin BUSINESS NEED: Redirector links must have some local flexibility to improve the compatibility with third-party library systems...
    4 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 0 Feedback wanted

    Increase resource granularity within reporting data

    Need better granularity of resource access data to help us determine subscription renewals.
    almost 2 years ago in Librarians / Reporting 7 Research & discovery

    Possibility of restricting personal OpenAthens accounts to specific IP addresses

    Access accounts are often not the best choice when access to resources needs to be restricted to specific IP addresses (e.g., on-campus locations). This is because some providers require authentication using personal information, such as individua...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    A Clear Pathway/Hub for Consistent Communications from Vendors to OpenAthens Regarding Platform Changes and Proxy Updates

    We know that vendors make frequent platform changes. In the past two months, I have worked with two vendors directly who had no idea that during and after platform changes, updates are likely needed for the OpenAthens managed proxy. Vendors to not...
    5 months ago in Librarians / Proxy 1 Feedback wanted

    Localise the User Interfaces (support translation to multiple languages, date formats, time zones)

    Please add support to localise the user interfaces (support translation to multiple languages, date formats, time zones). Key interfaces: Authentication point - personal account and brokered logins (not including delegated connector) MyAthens+...
    4 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Org discovery (Wayfinder) / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    Add a 'Notes' field to the Resource Details page in OpenAthens Admin

    The notes field would be a place to record any history for that particular resource such as changes made to the URL which could be useful for admins when troubleshooting future problems. This field should not be changed/cleared when using the Reve...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

    'Read-only' administrator access for reporting.

    'Read-only' view of the OpenAthens reports. To be in the form of a new administrator 'role'. There are often stakeholders at organisations who need/want access to the reports, but who should not have access to the rest of the admin dashboard.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting 2 Research & discovery

    Timestamps reflecting local time zone

    It would be helpful to have timestamps in the admin dashboard reflect the institution's local time zone, rather than automatically deferring to GMT.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

    Keep a change log for allocated resources in the catalogue

    Currently in the resources catalogue, there is very little information available to an institution outside of the resource details. It would be really helpful to have an additional tab on each resource where the system records any changes applied ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Resource catalogue 5 Research & discovery

    Referring URL in error messages

    Users often screenshot the error message they get from OpenAthens but neglect to tell us which platform they were trying to access a resource through - just being able to see what URL they were trying to access would shorten resolution and diagnos...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians 1 Feedback wanted