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+ 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).
    9 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 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 ...
    9 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...
    9 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Support multiple language (including Japanese) for Report with Managed Directory customers

    Please kindly consider to support multiple languages (including Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, Thai, etc) officially in Report function with Managed Directory customers. Currently only English is supported with this. If multiple languages c...
    10 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    Move the user search to be more aligned with where one searches and results appear.

    The user experience when searching for users has been improved with logic, etc. but the process still begins in the bar well above and outside the visual scope of where search results appear, and then separated by a grey banner.
    11 months ago in Librarians / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery

    Remove unused titles and subscriptions

    We were informed we could not remove no longer subscribed to titles in our admin area. Due to the set up of our resources, we manage a suite of differnt user groups, so when logging into our admin area, we would only like to see current subs. Alth...
    11 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue / Search and navigation 1 Research & discovery

    Upload files to MyAthens

    It would be helpful if librarians could upload files to MyAthens. I want to add some pdf tutorials to MyAthens, but I don’t have a public website to host them on.
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

    Ability to select more user Titles to include in the usage graphs

    My library users have many different Titles because my library serves both a college and hospital. It would be helpful if I could select more than 9 user Titles to include in the line graph.
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 2 Feedback wanted

    MyAthens+ Web analytics / statistics

    To help research and understand user behaviour, it would be great if MyAthens+ recorded some basic web analytics data such as link clicks/search box usage. Ideally categorised by user attributes (like other OpenAthens statistics) while preserving ...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    MyAthens+ LibKey DOI/PMID lookup box

    MyAthens+ already supports a few types of search box to enable resource discovery. A libkey.io DOI and PubMed ID lookup search box for mutual customers would be great. It would allow users seeking a specific reference to check for and access full ...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted