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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Create a marketplace for librarians to see latest offers from publishers

Picture in the SP dashboard, a place to manage their 'marketplace presence' - upload a logo, information on the services, contact details, and the option to add and pay for a promotion. Meanwhile, the IDP dashboard has a 'Marketplace' tab. OpenAth...
about 2 months ago in Publishers / * Other 1 Feedback wanted

Have OpenAthens' SP reporting data report on unique users

The reports tell me the quantity of transfers to my products from a particular organization, in a given timeframe, but not how many unique users these transfers equate to; is it 100 people transferring once each, or 1 person transferring 100 times?
8 months ago in Publishers / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

Share statistical report edited as we can see on administrators dashboard

The statistical reports we can view in Reporting would ideally be exportable in their edited format, exactly as we administrators see them on the platform, so that they can be shared with others. It is unfortunate and a significant drawback that w...
6 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

Bypass organization or OpenAthens login page

When our users are prompted to log in, they must select our organization or OpenAthens as a choice for authentication, and we would prefer that they never see this page. We do not want them to have the choice to select OpenAthens. Our users do not...
6 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 7 Research & discovery

Video for students

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

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

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...
4 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy / Redirector 0 Feedback wanted

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

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 1 month ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 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