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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    Add OpenAthens Redirector statistics to the Reporting Dashboard (usage by domain, errors and IP bypass)

    Add Redirector Statistics and Error Reporting to the OpenAthens Reporting Dashboard to restore lost functionality and deliver new insights for libraries. Why This Matters: Visibility: Libraries currently lack data on IP bypass usage, limiting th...
    8 months ago in Librarians / Redirector / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

    IPv6 support for OpenAthens

    We were notified by a few vendors that their platform now relies on IPv6 for access while OpenAthens currently supports IPv4 only and have no plans to implement it at this time. This creates access failures as more vendors and networks transition ...
    6 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy 1 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
    11 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    The Authentication "Holy Grail": Collaborate Toward a Means for Users to Access Content Across Multiple Affiliations

    As OpenAthens gains marketshare in the library authentication landscape, it has become highly likely, especially in consortial environments, that a library user may belong to 2 or more organizations that use OpenAthens as the primary means of auth...
    7 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Org discovery (Wayfinder) / Overall usability 0 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...
    11 months ago in Librarians / Proxy / Redirector 0 Research & discovery

    Export a list of all resources assigned to a certain permission set

    If I want to get a list of all resources assigned to a certain group of users, I can do a search and see the tiles listed on-screen, but I can't export a list of them. Would be great to be able to export lists like this simply eg as a csv, to make...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 3 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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Research & discovery

    Show UX when editing Login area

    Dear OpenAthens Team, We would like to raise a suggestion to show live UX picture example on the right-hand side when editing the login area for Display Names, Description, logo, etc. What it is currently: Ticket 2 Show UX 1A and 1B What we are th...
    5 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information / Overall usability 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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    Download graphs as PDFs

    It would be helpful if librarians could download graphs in the reporting module as PDFs, as this would save time when sharing usage reports with management during the subscription renewal period.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Research & discovery