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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My ideas: Librarians

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Timestamps reflecting local time zone

It would be helpful to have timestamps in the admin dashboard reflect the institution's local time zone, rather than automatically deferring to GMT.
8 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

Provide a link from the Reports dashboard back to the Admin dashboard

In the Admin dashboard I often click Statistics > Reporting to get to the reporting dashboard. But I haven't found a way to get back to the Admin dashboard. Please either provide a link back to the main Admin dashboard, or in the Admin menu, op...
6 months ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 2 Research & discovery

Referring URL in error messages

Users often screenshot the error message they get from OpenAthens but neglect to tell us which platform they were trying to access a resource through - just being able to see what URL they were trying to access would shorten resolution and diagnos...
18 days ago in Librarians 0 Feedback wanted

Allow searching by username in Reports Dashboard

Sometimes when we have a user who has reported an issue, or we're waiting for a user to test out accessing a particular resource, we want to be able to check on their activity via OpenAthens Reports Dashboard. If the user is not in the top number ...
18 days ago in Librarians 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...
6 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

Fulltext Usage

Currently, OpenAthens provides the session/login counts for publishers/patrons. We cannot identify their actual FT usage of resources accessed via OA. This feature would be a great value addition for all OA users and administrators.
7 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 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...
6 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Research & discovery

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 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Overall usability  / Terminology 0 Feedback wanted

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.
8 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

Admin Activity Log for OpenAthens

I would like to request an enhancement to the OpenAthens admin interface to include a log history of administrative modifications. Currently, the system does not provide a detailed audit trail of changes made by admin accounts. Default permission ...
4 months ago in Librarians / * Other 1 Research & discovery