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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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...
6 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy / Redirector 0 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...
8 months ago in Publishers / Application configuration / Org discovery / WAYF (Wayfinder) 0 Feedback wanted

Stop requiring AssertionConsumerServiceURL parameter inside SAML requests

As explained in OASD-27648, the OpenAthens IdP requires SAML requests to identify the SP’s “AssertionConsumerServiceURL=” or else OpenAthens will throw the following Bad Request error: “Could not establish assertion consumer service url for…“ OASD...
3 months ago in Publishers / * Other 3 Already exists

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...
4 months ago in Publishers / * Other 1 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...
5 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.
5 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / User accounts and permission sets 1 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.
11 months ago in Publishers / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

Resource Catalog Export with Direct URLs

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

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...
7 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 Feedback wanted

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.
2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens 3 Feedback wanted