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.


Guidance on using this portal

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My votes

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 0 Research & discovery

    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.
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / User accounts and permission sets 1 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...
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Application configuration / Keystone configuration / Supporting other federations 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 ...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

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

    Users receive non relevant errors messages

    For example a user when changing password received a 'invalid activation code' message. It didn't explain to the user what they had done wrong. Another example a user was renewing their account and got the password word wrong they received the mes...
    11 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Overall usability  / Terminology 0 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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 Feedback wanted

    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...
    12 months ago in Publishers / * Other 1 Feedback wanted

    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.
    over 1 year 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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery