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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Librarians

    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

    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...
    about 1 year 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

    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

    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 ...
    over 1 year 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
    over 1 year 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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted