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.
    about 1 year 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).
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

    Ability to reject self-registration requests

    It would be helpful if libraries could reject registration requests generated via their self-registration page, as this would save time during the account creation and activation process.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Stop requiring AssertionConsumerServiceURL parameter inside SAML requests

    As explained in OASD-27648, the OpenAthens IdP requires SAML requests to identify the SP’s “AssertionConsumerServiceURL=” or else OpenAthens will throw the following Bad Request error: “Could not establish assertion consumer service url for…“ OASD...
    about 1 year ago in Publishers / * Other 3 Already exists

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue / Search and navigation 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...
    8 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 0 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.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

    Ability to select more user Titles to include in the usage graphs

    My library users have many different Titles because my library serves both a college and hospital. It would be helpful if I could select more than 9 user Titles to include in the line graph.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 2 Feedback wanted