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.

Just sign in with your email to share your thoughts or vote for ideas you like—it'll help them get noticed!


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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    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...
    8 months ago in Librarians / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Create a separate login page that is not connected to SAML for other types of users

    We do not want to turn on the landing page that makes our patrons choose how to authenticate bc most of the time we are using SAML. We would like a separate log in page for guest accounts to use for community patrons, vendors, and alumni.
    12 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens 3 Feedback wanted

    Users receive non relevant errors messages

    For example a user when changing password received a 'invalid activation code' message. It didn't explain to the user what they had done wrong. Another example a user was renewing their account and got the password word wrong they received the mes...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Overall usability  / Terminology 0 Feedback wanted

    Terms of use page

    E-resources licensing agreements sometimes require that institutions use reasonable methods to inform their users about restrictions on the terms of use (i.e. non-commercial, no reverse engineering, etc.). Libraries have few good options for putti...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 Feedback wanted

    Ability to sort account status

    We use SSO for our account management in Athens. I manage the administration on suspended accounts for assessment. I would like to be able to sort the Status column to just see our suspended accounts instead of scrolling through lists.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Add "includes" as another option besides "matches" in the Advanced Search

    We are not able to know how many active accounts exist at any given time by user group. Each local account has multiple Groups (an attribute) associated with it. Being able to use "includes" logic for Account attributes in the Advanced Search woul...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Email templates - how to create more

    I would like to suggest an enhancement to the current email template functionality, specifically the ability to create and assign customised email templates based on user groups. Currently, the system uses a generic email template for account crea...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    Create a marketplace for librarians to see latest offers from publishers

    Picture in the SP dashboard, a place to manage their 'marketplace presence' - upload a logo, information on the services, contact details, and the option to add and pay for a promotion. Meanwhile, the IDP dashboard has a 'Marketplace' tab. OpenAth...
    about 1 year ago in Publishers / * Other 1 Feedback wanted

    Change the messaging on the log in screen around the link to reset openathens password from problems logging in to Reset your password/ Register

    Problems logging in seems to be not specific enough for our users. We are getting tickets opened on our help desk looking to reset openathens passwords, when the user should be able to do this themselves. Additionally, this text does not convey th...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 Feedback wanted

    Be able to report on multiline text fields

    As a library admin I want to be able to report on multiline text attribute so I can get more granular data out of OpenAthens. If you have a text custom schema attribute such as:coursesEnrolled where it can contain a value like:"Math, Information T...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted