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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Make it easier to edit text/offer guidance in the "Domain" area across more than one IdP connection

When an institution has more than one connection (student/faculty & staff) it should be simpler to edit the OpenAthens login screen in domain settings, and admins should be able to edit text and messages all in one place.
6 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

MyAthens+ Localization

In addition to the current A to Z, we would like hosting and browsing in local languages.(ex. Japanese: Hiragana (あいうえお....) To do this, the resource needs a additonal metadata for hosting and sorting (local language title).
6 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

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...
about 1 year ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration / Org discovery / WAYF (Wayfinder) 0 Feedback wanted

Stop renaming the product

Compass. Really? WHY? It's bad enough that the product went from Athens to OpenAthens, and now ours users think this means everything is free (because it sounds just like open access, yanno). That transition was hard enough, and some days I still ...
6 months ago in Librarians / * Other 4 Rejected

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...
6 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

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...
7 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 Feedback wanted

Support multiple language (including Japanese) for Report with Managed Directory customers

Please kindly consider to support multiple languages (including Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, Thai, etc) officially in Report function with Managed Directory customers. Currently only English is supported with this. If multiple languages c...
7 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Move the user search to be more aligned with where one searches and results appear.

The user experience when searching for users has been improved with logic, etc. but the process still begins in the bar well above and outside the visual scope of where search results appear, and then separated by a grey banner.
8 months ago in Librarians / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery

Remove unused titles and subscriptions

We were informed we could not remove no longer subscribed to titles in our admin area. Due to the set up of our resources, we manage a suite of differnt user groups, so when logging into our admin area, we would only like to see current subs. Alth...
8 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue / Search and navigation 1 Research & discovery

Upload files to MyAthens

It would be helpful if librarians could upload files to MyAthens. I want to add some pdf tutorials to MyAthens, but I don’t have a public website to host them on.
9 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted