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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    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

    'Group' filter - scroll bar required

    We would like to make a request that a scroll bar is made visible when there are multiple groups to choose from when assigning a personal account to a particular group. Please see attached picture for reference. Currently, we are being shown 15 gr...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    I would like to have a date field account created in the login section

    in the login section there is a last login info, but no account created field, this could be helpful for BI statistics and other library operations
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    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

    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 ...
    11 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...
    11 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    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.
    about 1 year 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...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue / Search and navigation 1 Research & discovery

    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...
    about 1 year 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 ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting / Resource catalogue / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery