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

Read only view of Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings for Administrators

Currently OAMD allows two types of Admin Roles in the platform, Administrator and Owner. Owner has enhanced access in that it can edit Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings. Administrators have no access to these areas at all, which...
11 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Research & discovery

notification any time a new resource gets added to Compatible Providers search

It would be great to have a way to get a notification any time a new resource gets added or updated in the Compatible Providers search. I want to know when new cards are added so I can proactively see if I need to allocate them. https://www.openat...
6 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

Resource Catalog Export with Direct URLs

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

More help for users with multiple accounts

Please make it easier to have multiple accounts. i.e. student at 2 institutions with 2 OpenAthens accounts gets locked out regularly from one or the other
2 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

Ability for the Redirector to double-encode the target URL

Some publishers have a complicated linking syntax with many layers of information, and in order to fully preserve the original target URL throughout the journey, it must be encoded more than once. For example, Bloomsbury Digital Resources. This {t...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 0 Research & discovery

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.
10 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

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...
12 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 4 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...
7 months ago in Librarians / OpenAthens support 1 Feedback wanted

Report for who created accounts especially self-registrations

Our library recently implemented self-registration. We would enjoy being able to easily and accurately report from within OpenAthens how many accounts were created by Self-Registration. It would also be useful to know how many accounts were create...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery