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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    Auto-update certificates for 1:1 connections

    Our customers who utilize 1:1 connections create enterprise apps in Entra and periodically the X509 certificates expire. We currently ask them to send us updated metadata xml with the new x509 certificate, then we manually upload the new metadata ...
    about 1 month ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration 0 Feedback wanted

    Ability to apply IP authentication to OpenAthens admin login in addition to username/password

    Currently, login to the OpenAthens admin portal is available via username and password only. The customer would like the option to add IP authentication as an additional security measure. This way, even if the username and password are compromised...
    8 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 2 Feedback wanted

    A way to add alternative organisation names for use in discovery

    My users know their organisation by many acronyms and abbreviations. It'd be great if there were a way to add these to the find-my-organisation search.
    4 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 1 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...
    12 months ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 2 Research & discovery

    Enhance Link Generator to Convert Proxied URLs

    I’d like to request an enhancement to the OpenAthens Link Generator tool (example: https://go.openathens.net/generate/myInstitution.edu/123456787 to improve its ability to handle generic proxied URLs. Currently, the generator successfully converts...
    4 months ago in Librarians / Proxy / Redirector 0 Research & discovery

    Admin access via SSO for security purposes

    For security purposes our company would require to access to the OpenAthens admin portal via SSO. We know that this feature is not available at the moment and that the access is only available via username and password. Are you planning to impleme...
    10 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 3 Feedback wanted

    Remember my computer for longer

    I would like less frequent requests to confirm access codes when I'm on the same device.
    2 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted

    Allow restricted mode on a per resource basis (with permissive mode enabled)

    I have a request to restrict access to certain specific resources to certain groups of our users. OpenAthens allows for either:Restrictive mode - Each and every resource is allocated based on Permission sets.Permissive Mode - Everyone can access E...
    12 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    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.
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

    Show which username triggered the "insufficient attributes" authentication error

    We occasionally see "Authentication failed - insufficient attributes | Expected unique user id attribute not found" errors in OpenAthens Admin under Auditing. Currently, these error messages do not show which username experienced the problem. This...
    2 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted