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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    Managing credentials for non-compatible resources within OpenAthens

    With a large number of platforms and resources that remain incompatible with OpenAthens, managing their credentials separately in external systems has become an increasingly complex and time-consuming task for organizations. Given OpenAthens' role...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy 8 Research & discovery

    Allow sub orgs their own logo

    Please allow sub orgs to have their own logo. Our partner organisations are many and varied, and are not always under our direct umbrella. Having our logo display in some instances is misleading.
    4 months ago in Librarians / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    Request to support non-standard ports (e.g. 8080) on the proxy.

    Currently the OpenAthens proxy supports only standard HTTP/HTTPS ports (80 and 443). Some customers have locally hosted resources running on non-standard ports, for example http://www.domain.com:8080, which cannot be supported yet.
    16 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy 0 Feedback wanted

    Ability to copy existing permission set

    USE CASE:We sometimes need to ‘duplicate’ a permission set when established clients need to change group/statistics OR purchases a new resource that needs to be 'limited' to a new group. CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY:There is no ‘duplicate this permission...
    7 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

    Improve support for DOI links within the OpenAthens Redirector

    We have been having issues linking to content from Sage vis the OpenAthens Redirector. This is due to the OpenAthens Redirector not honouring the URL registered against the DOI reference (e.g. As an example you can use the Crossref API to look at ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 3 Research & discovery

    Redirector "domain bypass" - let admins whitelist target domains where authentication isn't required (equivalent to EZProxy's NeverProxy or RedirectSafe functionality)

    ENHANCEMENT REQUEST Add a 'Domain Bypass' OR "Domain Whitelist" to the Preferences --> Redirector section of OA admin BUSINESS NEED: Redirector links must have some local flexibility to improve the compatibility with third-party library systems...
    6 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 0 Feedback wanted

    Increase resource granularity within reporting data

    Need better granularity of resource access data to help us determine subscription renewals.
    almost 2 years ago in Librarians / Reporting 7 Research & discovery

    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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Add Organisation name to Domain Group level reports

    When running a Domain Group level report for all the institutions in that group, the report only contains the domain for each institution, but it would be helpful to also have the Organisation name. Obviously, this isn't relevant for individual in...
    20 days ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    Allow OpenAthens to dynamically apply Permission Sets based on a user's access location (on-campus or off-campus network).

    Many institutions manage electronic resource access under licence agreements that distinguish between on-campus and off-campus use. At our institution, some user groups are permitted to access only a subset of resources remotely, while additional ...
    20 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Attribute release / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted