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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    Double Authentication for OpenAthens Personal Accounts

    Dear OpenAthens Team, We would like to raise a suggestion to OpenAthens to provide an option for two factor authentication for access codes for personal accounts. In our situation, we require two factor authentication to follow our compliance with...
    about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 Feedback wanted

    Additional Sign In Logo Options

    Dear OpenAthens Team, We would like to raise a suggestion to provide an option to put in additional logo or pictures in 2 login areas for organizations under umbrella companies or transnational education programs with other universities. What it i...
    about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    Expand scheduled reports to include Annual, Biannual and quarterly reports.

    We need to report on time segments larger than a week or a month. It would be great to be able to schedule these Annually, Biannually, and Quarterly.
    5 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 2 Feedback wanted

    Resource Catalog Export with Direct URLs

    Allow allocated resources to be exported with direct URLs.
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 2 Feedback wanted

    A way to add alternative organisation names for use in discovery

    My users know their organisation by many acronyms and abbreviations. It'd be great if there were a way to add these to the find-my-organisation search.
    9 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 1 Feedback wanted

    Ability to apply IP authentication to OpenAthens admin login in addition to username/password

    Currently, login to the OpenAthens admin portal is available via username and password only. The customer would like the option to add IP authentication as an additional security measure. This way, even if the username and password are compromised...
    12 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 2 Feedback wanted

    Enhance Link Generator to Convert Proxied URLs

    I’d like to request an enhancement to the OpenAthens Link Generator tool (example: https://go.openathens.net/generate/myInstitution.edu/123456787 to improve its ability to handle generic proxied URLs. Currently, the generator successfully converts...
    8 months ago in Librarians / Proxy / Redirector 0 Research & discovery

    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
    8 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    IPv6 support for OpenAthens

    We were notified by a few vendors that their platform now relies on IPv6 for access while OpenAthens currently supports IPv4 only and have no plans to implement it at this time. This creates access failures as more vendors and networks transition ...
    4 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy 1 Feedback wanted

    Add OpenAthens Redirector statistics to the Reporting Dashboard (usage by domain, errors and IP bypass)

    Add Redirector Statistics and Error Reporting to the OpenAthens Reporting Dashboard to restore lost functionality and deliver new insights for libraries. Why This Matters: Visibility: Libraries currently lack data on IP bypass usage, limiting th...
    5 months ago in Librarians / Redirector / Reporting 0 Research & discovery