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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Make it easier to edit text/offer guidance in the "Domain" area across more than one IdP connection

When an institution has more than one connection (student/faculty & staff) it should be simpler to edit the OpenAthens login screen in domain settings, and admins should be able to edit text and messages all in one place.
16 days ago in Librarians / Administrators / Org information 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...
5 months ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 1 Research & discovery

Users receive non relevant errors messages

For example a user when changing password received a 'invalid activation code' message. It didn't explain to the user what they had done wrong. Another example a user was renewing their account and got the password word wrong they received the mes...
18 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Overall usability  / Terminology 1 Feedback wanted

MyAthens+ Localization

In addition to the current A to Z, we would like hosting and browsing in local languages.(ex. Japanese: Hiragana (あいうえお....) To do this, the resource needs a additonal metadata for hosting and sorting (local language title).
18 days ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

Admin Activity Log for OpenAthens

I would like to request an enhancement to the OpenAthens admin interface to include a log history of administrative modifications. Currently, the system does not provide a detailed audit trail of changes made by admin accounts. Default permission ...
3 months ago in Librarians / * Other 1 Research & discovery

Read only view of Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings for Administrators

Currently OAMD allows two types of Admin Roles in the platform, Administrator and Owner. Owner has enhanced access in that it can edit Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings. Administrators have no access to these areas at all, which...
5 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Research & discovery

Create a marketplace for librarians to see latest offers from publishers

Picture in the SP dashboard, a place to manage their 'marketplace presence' - upload a logo, information on the services, contact details, and the option to add and pay for a promotion. Meanwhile, the IDP dashboard has a 'Marketplace' tab. OpenAth...
about 1 month ago in Publishers / * Other 1 Feedback wanted

Fulltext Usage

Currently, OpenAthens provides the session/login counts for publishers/patrons. We cannot identify their actual FT usage of resources accessed via OA. This feature would be a great value addition for all OA users and administrators.
6 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

Request to make First Name and Last Name non-mandatory for Bulk Upload

Currently, when we bulk upload personal accounts in the OpenAthens admin, both First Name and Last Name are mandatory. In some cases, it is difficult to export users' forenames and surnames separately. If either First Name or Last Name (or both...
3 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 2 Feedback wanted

Download graphs as PDFs

It would be helpful if librarians could download graphs in the reporting module as PDFs, as this would save time when sharing usage reports with management during the subscription renewal period.
7 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Research & discovery