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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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

General Redirector URL

I wanted to suggest a possible feature that could be useful for scenarios like the one we're facing with the resource Index to Hebrew Periodicals, which is used by various OpenAthens customers. Currently, the Catalog administrator cannot add a spe...
6 months ago in Publishers / Application configuration / Org discovery / WAYF (Wayfinder) 0 Feedback wanted

Stop renaming the product

Compass. Really? WHY? It's bad enough that the product went from Athens to OpenAthens, and now ours users think this means everything is free (because it sounds just like open access, yanno). That transition was hard enough, and some days I still ...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / * Other 4 Rejected

Removal of the Default Permission Set requires customer approval before proceeding.

If a permission set were to be accidentally deleted, it could lead to the loss of access to all associated resources. To help prevent this, it would be beneficial to require Library Administrator approval before any permission set is permanently d...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

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

Snapshot Feature for Rapid Rollback

, I would like to propose an additional feature to further improve system recovery and minimize service disruptions caused by human errors. To facilitate quick rollback and resolution, we request the implementation of automatic system snapshots ta...
3 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 0 Research & discovery

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

Disaggregate transfer data for journals on my platform

Make library transfer data more meaningful for all my customers by showing at journal level for my platform. Previously discussed with customers and OpenAthens.
9 months ago in Publishers / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

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