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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Librarians

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To implement a third-level breakdown in reporting as the current OpenAthens reports only offer a two-level resource breakdown, which limits the depth of analysis.

We require a consolidated report that includes Resource Name, Username, PG Code, and Usage Count, based on unique users, for analysis. Currently, there is no overlap between the reports that would allow for an XLOOKUP to merge PG Code or Username.
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Feedback wanted

Add Error Template for "Mandatory attribute (unique user) not provided"

Admins are currently able to edit the error templates for various error messages via Preferences > Error Templates. However, not every error message has a template on this page. Recently a patron received this error message: Error message title...
3 months ago in Librarians / OpenAthens support 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...
7 months ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 2 Research & discovery

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...
7 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

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.
8 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 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...
7 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Research & discovery

Add a column setting for “Last Sign In”

"Add a 'Last Sign In' column for managed accounts in the users/accounts list, displayed in both the admin interface and the exported file, mirroring the functionality available for local accounts.
6 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.
9 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

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...
8 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 4 Research & discovery

Multi-factor authentication for managed accounts

Some institutions require MFA for end-users as part of their due diligence process. Can MFA for end-users be made available within OpenAthens, specifically for managed accounts?
8 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery