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.


Guidance on using this portal

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My ideas: Librarians

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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.
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens 3 Feedback wanted

Video for students

create a video for students about what OA is and how to use it
8 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 1 Research & discovery

Change the term "Active" on accounts to mean Active

It turns out that when an account is displayed as "Active" it doesn't mean it is actually active (being used), just that the user has set a password. This is so counter intuitive that I suspect it's not just all of my colleagues (and me) who misun...
7 months ago in Librarians / Terminology 1 Research & discovery

OA Redirector: Allow access mechanism selection.

We use OpenAthens and the OpenAthens Proxy.The Redirector will always use Federated access whenever it's available. Some resources do not work well with Federated access, which is why we Proxy them.e.g. Some do not allow deep linking through their...
5 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy / Redirector 0 Feedback wanted

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...
6 months ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 3 Feedback wanted

MyAthens URL with embedded Access Account logins

We are looking for a MyAthens access URL that includes the username and password embedded into it. This access URL would be shared with users that are on-site using the Access Account(the MD account that requires you to be on a registered IP). Thi...
4 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Please give option to 'reset my password' on admin.openathens.net

On admin.openathens.net, there is no option to reset my password. This results in delays, and less usage of the product.
4 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / User accounts and permission sets 1 Feedback wanted

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 month 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 2 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

Resource Catalog Export with Direct URLs

Allow allocated resources to be exported with direct URLs.
5 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 1 Feedback wanted