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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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?
11 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

Resource Catalog Export with Direct URLs

Allow allocated resources to be exported with direct URLs.
9 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 2 Feedback wanted

Add a column setting for “Last Sign In”

"Add a 'Last Sign In' column for managed accounts in the users/accounts list, displayed in both the admin interface and the exported file, mirroring the functionality available for local accounts.
9 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

Add Error Template for "Mandatory attribute (unique user) not provided"

Admins are currently able to edit the error templates for various error messages via Preferences > Error Templates. However, not every error message has a template on this page. Recently a patron received this error message: Error message title...
6 months ago in Librarians / OpenAthens support 1 Feedback wanted

Longer-lasting sessions/cookies

1. Make the "Access code" requrement take much longer to re-appear (months instead of weeks). Being required to wait for this code so often is disruptive to workflow. At least IP-validate on site like it once did. 2. Make the session times much lo...
11 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 4 Research & discovery

See more than just one year's usage at a time in Reports

In Reports > Data explorer > Resources > Usage, you can only see one year's worth of usage at a time. If you want more than just one year's usage, you have to update the start and end dates, download the report, update the start and end d...
7 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Users' activity tab timestamp

For very recent activity, this shows a timestamp as "A minute ago" or "3 minutes ago". This sort of relative time is not useful! Please give these entries a proper timestamp, e.g. "12 December 2023 at 11:12"
11 months ago in Librarians / Overall usability 0 Research & discovery

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...
3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 1 Feedback wanted

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...
8 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy / Redirector 0 Feedback wanted

Option to auto-activate new resource tiles for already activated publishers

I’d like to see auto-activation of resource tiles as an option. If we have a publisher’s resource tile activated and another one becomes available for them, I would like that to activate automatically either according to template options that we s...
10 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources 0 Research & discovery