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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    Finding accounts without allocated permissions

    It would be valuable to be able to filter for accounts without an allocated permission set, or to run a report to generate a list of accounts without an allocated permission set. We use a local connection to Okta for our accounts but occasionally ...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Ability to sort account status

    We use SSO for our account management in Athens. I manage the administration on suspended accounts for assessment. I would like to be able to sort the Status column to just see our suspended accounts instead of scrolling through lists.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Add "includes" as another option besides "matches" in the Advanced Search

    We are not able to know how many active accounts exist at any given time by user group. Each local account has multiple Groups (an attribute) associated with it. Being able to use "includes" logic for Account attributes in the Advanced Search woul...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    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

    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

    'Group' filter - scroll bar required

    We would like to make a request that a scroll bar is made visible when there are multiple groups to choose from when assigning a personal account to a particular group. Please see attached picture for reference. Currently, we are being shown 15 gr...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    I would like to have a date field account created in the login section

    in the login section there is a last login info, but no account created field, this could be helpful for BI statistics and other library operations
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    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