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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Reporting data

Need better granularity of resource access data to help us determine subscription renewals.
3 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 2 Feedback wanted

Ability to sort account status

We use SSO for our account management in Athens. I manage the administration on suspended accounts for assessment. I would like to be able to sort the Status column to just see our suspended accounts instead of scrolling through lists.
9 days ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

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.
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Video for students

create a video for students about what OA is and how to use it
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 1 Feedback wanted

Report for rejected OpenAthens account registrations

could you generate a report on instances where people registered for an account but were rejected (due to issues like incorrect email addresses/not a member of institution) At the moment we are archiving the email alerts but would like to be able ...
21 days ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Change the term "Active" on accounts to mean Active

It turns out that when an account is displayed as "Active" it doesn't mean it is actually active (being used), just that the user has set a password. This is so counter intuitive that I suspect it's not just all of my colleagues (and me) who misun...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Terminology 1 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.
2 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Be able to report on multiline text fields

As a library admin I want to be able to report on multiline text attribute so I can get more granular data out of OpenAthens. If you have a text custom schema attribute such as:coursesEnrolled where it can contain a value like:"Math, Information T...
28 days ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

MyAthens+ UNDO button needed

It would be highly beneficial to have an "UNDO" button (or a feature that shows previous versions of the interface) when using the admin version of MyAthens. This would eliminate the need to rely on memory or screenshots to maintain the layout in ...
15 days ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

I would like to have a date field account created in the login section

in the login section there is a last login info, but no account created field, this could be helpful for BI statistics and other library operations
15 days ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted