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.

Just sign in with your email to share your thoughts or vote for ideas you like—it'll help them get noticed!


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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    Publish the metadata for all of my 1:1 connections in a private XML file

    I would like to be able to get a feed of the metadata for all of my 1:1 connections so that I can populate my back end system(s) with organization information for authorization and/or populating my discovery service. This feed must only be visible...
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration / Org discovery / WAYF (Wayfinder) 0 Feedback wanted

    Ability to reject self-registration requests

    It would be helpful if libraries could reject registration requests generated via their self-registration page, as this would save time during the account creation and activation process.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Removal of the Default Permission Set requires customer approval before proceeding.

    If a permission set were to be accidentally deleted, it could lead to the loss of access to all associated resources. To help prevent this, it would be beneficial to require Library Administrator approval before any permission set is permanently d...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery