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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    Allocate a list of resources via file upload

    While it would be great to export a list of resources currently allocated to a Permission Set (see IDP-I-45), it would also help if we could do the reverse and allocate resources by way of a file upload (such as .CSV). Then we could basically "cop...
    6 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Resource catalogue / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Ability to reject self-registration requests

    It would be helpful if libraries could reject registration requests generated via their self-registration page, as this would save time during the account creation and activation process.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Ability for the Redirector to double-encode the target URL

    Some publishers have a complicated linking syntax with many layers of information, and in order to fully preserve the original target URL throughout the journey, it must be encoded more than once. For example, Bloomsbury Digital Resources. This {t...
    6 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 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...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    Report for who created accounts especially self-registrations

    Our library recently implemented self-registration. We would enjoy being able to easily and accurately report from within OpenAthens how many accounts were created by Self-Registration. It would also be useful to know how many accounts were create...
    6 months ago in Librarians / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 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

    Automatically apply redirector syntax for curated resource list

    It would be great for the MyAthens+ curated resource list to automatically apply WAYFless syntax, rather than updating the access URL in the resource catalogue.
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted