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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Stop renaming the product

Compass. Really? WHY? It's bad enough that the product went from Athens to OpenAthens, and now ours users think this means everything is free (because it sounds just like open access, yanno). That transition was hard enough, and some days I still ...
19 days ago in Librarians / * Other 4 Rejected

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.
4 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.
7 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

Removal of the Default Permission Set requires customer approval before proceeding.

If a permission set were to be accidentally deleted, it could lead to the loss of access to all associated resources. To help prevent this, it would be beneficial to require Library Administrator approval before any permission set is permanently d...
20 days ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 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...
6 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?
6 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

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...
5 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources 0 Research & discovery

Users' activity tab timestamp

For very recent activity, this shows a timestamp as "A minute ago" or "3 minutes ago". This sort of relative time is not useful! Please give these entries a proper timestamp, e.g. "12 December 2023 at 11:12"
6 months ago in Librarians / Overall usability 0 Research & discovery

Have OpenAthens' SP reporting data report on unique users

The reports tell me the quantity of transfers to my products from a particular organization, in a given timeframe, but not how many unique users these transfers equate to; is it 100 people transferring once each, or 1 person transferring 100 times?
7 months ago in Publishers / Reporting 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...
24 days ago in Publishers / * Other 0 Feedback wanted