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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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
about 2 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Feedback wanted

To implement a third-level breakdown in reporting as the current OpenAthens reports only offer a two-level resource breakdown, which limits the depth of analysis.

We require a consolidated report that includes Resource Name, Username, PG Code, and Usage Count, based on unique users, for analysis. Currently, there is no overlap between the reports that would allow for an XLOOKUP to merge PG Code or Username.
4 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Feedback wanted

Admin access via SSO for security purposes

For security purposes our company would require to access to the OpenAthens admin portal via SSO. We know that this feature is not available at the moment and that the access is only available via username and password. Are you planning to impleme...
8 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 3 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...
10 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 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...
10 months ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 3 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.
12 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 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.
11 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

notification any time a new resource gets added to Compatible Providers search

It would be great to have a way to get a notification any time a new resource gets added or updated in the Compatible Providers search. I want to know when new cards are added so I can proactively see if I need to allocate them. https://www.openat...
5 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

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 ...
7 months ago in Librarians / * Other 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...
10 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Research & discovery