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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    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.
    10 months 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.
    10 months 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 ...
    11 months 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 ...
    11 months 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.
    11 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

    MyAthens+ : More pages / improved navigation / better structure

    Would like more tabs or pages to use within MyAthens+, rather than everything being on 1 page. It would be nice to be able to separate aspects of the information. So, on the front page, information about the library, then a separate page for their...
    11 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery

    Put Allocated Resources in A-Z order in the Data Explorer dropdown list

    Only include Allocated Resources in the Data Explorer dropdown list and put them in A-Z order. Including just the library's Allocated Resources and arranging them in A-Z order in the Data Explorer dropdown list would make it easier for librarians ...
    12 months ago in Librarians / Reporting / Resource catalogue / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery

    Athens Admin - who logged in on map

    would be good if on the map where you see logins you could see the user ids
    12 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    Incorrect text alignment in MyAthens for RTL languages

    A client has reported an issue with the RTL display in My Athens: The periods appear on the right even when the text is RTL because the alignment is LTR. The customer is asking to change the alignment to be based on the language used for each line...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted