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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'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.
12 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting 2 Research & discovery

A way to add alternative organisation names for use in discovery

My users know their organisation by many acronyms and abbreviations. It'd be great if there were a way to add these to the find-my-organisation search.
3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 1 Feedback wanted

Enhance Link Generator to Convert Proxied URLs

I’d like to request an enhancement to the OpenAthens Link Generator tool (example: https://go.openathens.net/generate/myInstitution.edu/123456787 to improve its ability to handle generic proxied URLs. Currently, the generator successfully converts...
3 months ago in Librarians / Proxy / Redirector 0 Feedback wanted

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 ...
9 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Resource catalogue 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.
about 1 year ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

Ability to apply IP authentication to OpenAthens admin login in addition to username/password

Currently, login to the OpenAthens admin portal is available via username and password only. The customer would like the option to add IP authentication as an additional security measure. This way, even if the username and password are compromised...
6 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 2 Feedback wanted

Provide a link from the Reports dashboard back to the Admin dashboard

In the Admin dashboard I often click Statistics > Reporting to get to the reporting dashboard. But I haven't found a way to get back to the Admin dashboard. Please either provide a link back to the main Admin dashboard, or in the Admin menu, op...
10 months ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 2 Research & discovery

OpenAthens customise error message

Hi, We have realised we have the opportunity to customise our OpenAthens error message. This message is the one that appears whenever someone tries to access a resource they don't have access to, for various reasons. However, the way we can do thi...
4 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted

Allow restricted mode on a per resource basis (with permissive mode enabled)

I have a request to restrict access to certain specific resources to certain groups of our users. OpenAthens allows for either:Restrictive mode - Each and every resource is allocated based on Permission sets.Permissive Mode - Everyone can access E...
11 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

Admin access via SSO for security purposes

For security purposes our company would require to access to the OpenAthens admin portal via SSO. We know that this feature is not available at the moment and that the access is only available via username and password. Are you planning to impleme...
9 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 3 Feedback wanted