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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Users' activity tab timestamp

For very recent activity, this shows a timestamp as "A minute ago" or "3 minutes ago". This sort of relative time is not useful! Please give these entries a proper timestamp, e.g. "12 December 2023 at 11:12"
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

Timestamps reflecting local time zone

It would be helpful to have timestamps in the admin dashboard reflect the institution's local time zone, rather than automatically deferring to GMT.
2 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Share statistical report edited as we can see on administrators dashboard

The statistical reports we can view in Reporting would ideally be exportable in their edited format, exactly as we administrators see them on the platform, so that they can be shared with others. It is unfortunate and a significant drawback that w...
7 days ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Longer-lasting sessions/cookies

1. Make the "Access code" requrement take much longer to re-appear (months instead of weeks). Being required to wait for this code so often is disruptive to workflow. At least IP-validate on site like it once did. 2. Make the session times much lo...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 3 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...
15 days ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Adding a personal account / admin account should be combined somehow

When adding a personal account in OpenAthens, you need to create an account, then go to the 'Preferences' - 'Organisation' option, then go to the 'Administrator' tab to give them the account admin permissions needed. To save extra steps, perhaps t...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Feedback wanted

Reporting data

Need better granularity of resource access data to help us determine subscription renewals.
3 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 2 Feedback wanted

Export a list of all resources assigned to a certain permission set

If I want to get a list of all resources assigned to a certain group of users, I can do a search and see the tiles listed on-screen, but I can't export a list of them. Would be great to be able to export lists like this simply eg as a csv, to make...
9 days ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Provide a link from the Reports dashboard back to the Admin dashboard

In the Admin dashboard I often click Statistics > Reporting to get to the reporting dashboard. But I haven't found a way to get back to the Admin dashboard. Please either provide a link back to the main Admin dashboard, or in the Admin menu, op...
9 days ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 0 Feedback wanted

Possibility of restricting personal OpenAthens accounts to specific IP addresses

Access accounts are often not the best choice when access to resources needs to be restricted to specific IP addresses (e.g., on-campus locations). This is because some providers require authentication using personal information, such as individua...
9 days ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted