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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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...
5 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 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 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 Feedback wanted

Improve readability of domains in Link Format field

The Link Format field of each resource contains a URL that is applied to one or more web domains for that publisher. The domains appear only in a popup box upon mousing over the text box containing the URL. In many cases, such as the resource Else...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 1 Feedback wanted

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...
6 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

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...
6 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability 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...
6 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Ability to Combine Attributes via Transform Rules

University of North Georgia is looking to create a new attribute via the Schema that combines the Student/Not Student attribute with the Position attribute. Here is the functionality they are looking for with this new attribute: New Attribute- Stu...
6 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted

Get 1:1/custom SAML resource configurations into the OA Federation

As we have seen with the recent OA certificate update its been difficult and confusing to get some of these resources to make updates. What will happen 10 years from now when there is even more of them? What can be done to get these resources into...
5 months ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration 0 Feedback wanted

End-to-end APIs for application management

I would like for OpenAthens to publish a suite of APIs that I can hook-up to my internal systems so that I do not have to visit OpenAthens' service provider dashboard to performs actions such as; setting up new federated connections enabling feder...
8 months ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration / Supporting other federations 0 Feedback wanted

Support multiple language (including Japanese) for Report with Managed Directory customers

Please kindly consider to support multiple languages (including Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, Thai, etc) officially in Report function with Managed Directory customers. Currently only English is supported with this. If multiple languages c...
3 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted