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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Ability to sort account status

We use SSO for our account management in Athens. I manage the administration on suspended accounts for assessment. I would like to be able to sort the Status column to just see our suspended accounts instead of scrolling through lists.
8 months ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

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...
8 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...
8 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability 0 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...
5 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 0 Research & discovery

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...
8 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...
8 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted

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.
3 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

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).
3 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

Finding accounts without allocated permissions

It would be valuable to be able to filter for accounts without an allocated permission set, or to run a report to generate a list of accounts without an allocated permission set. We use a local connection to Okta for our accounts but occasionally ...
6 months ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

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...
9 months ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration / Supporting other federations 0 Feedback wanted