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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    Automatically sort users in Accounts > List by Last Signed In

    The default sorting method for local authentication connectors in Accounts > List doesn't seem to follow any particular pattern. Instead, could the list automatically start with the most recent users sorted to the top?
    8 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue / User accounts and permission sets 0 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...
    9 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 0 Research & discovery