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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Reporting data

Need better granularity of resource access data to help us determine subscription renewals.
6 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 3 Research & discovery

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...
3 months ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 1 Feedback wanted

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...
3 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted

Configurable html message or external link for resource not configured error. Option for notification

When you used the OpenAthens redirector on a resource that's not configured and active an error page is displayed to the patron. this message / page can't currently be modified. It would be nice that we could add details and links to external syst...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Org information 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.
4 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

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.
3 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Feedback wanted

OA Redirector: Allow access mechanism selection.

We use OpenAthens and the OpenAthens Proxy.The Redirector will always use Federated access whenever it's available. Some resources do not work well with Federated access, which is why we Proxy them.e.g. Some do not allow deep linking through their...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy / Redirector 0 Feedback wanted

Option to auto-activate new resource tiles for already activated publishers

I’d like to see auto-activation of resource tiles as an option. If we have a publisher’s resource tile activated and another one becomes available for them, I would like that to activate automatically either according to template options that we s...
3 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources 0 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.
5 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Feedback wanted

Snapshot Feature for Rapid Rollback

, I would like to propose an additional feature to further improve system recovery and minimize service disruptions caused by human errors. To facilitate quick rollback and resolution, we request the implementation of automatic system snapshots ta...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted