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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    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 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 3 Feedback wanted

    Keep a change log for allocated resources in the catalogue

    Currently in the resources catalogue, there is very little information available to an institution outside of the resource details. It would be really helpful to have an additional tab on each resource where the system records any changes applied ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Resource catalogue 2 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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 2 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.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 4 Research & discovery

    OpenAthens customise error message

    Hi, We have realised we have the opportunity to customise our OpenAthens error message. This message is the one that appears whenever someone tries to access a resource they don't have access to, for various reasons. However, the way we can do thi...
    12 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted

    Resource Catalog Export with Direct URLs

    Allow allocated resources to be exported with direct URLs.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 2 Feedback wanted

    The Authentication "Holy Grail": Collaborate Toward a Means for Users to Access Content Across Multiple Affiliations

    As OpenAthens gains marketshare in the library authentication landscape, it has become highly likely, especially in consortial environments, that a library user may belong to 2 or more organizations that use OpenAthens as the primary means of auth...
    6 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Org discovery (Wayfinder) / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    Expand scheduled reports to include Annual, Biannual and quarterly reports.

    We need to report on time segments larger than a week or a month. It would be great to be able to schedule these Annually, Biannually, and Quarterly.
    7 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 2 Feedback wanted

    Allow libraries to set a Redirector "link path" (WAYFLess deep-link syntax) for Custom SAML resources

    CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: In the OpenAthens resource catalogue redirector settings include: redirectable flags, target domains and link path(s). These settings are managed centrally by JISC and/or the federated Service Provider. Only federated OR pro...
    2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) / Redirector 0 Feedback wanted

    Double Authentication for OpenAthens Personal Accounts

    Dear OpenAthens Team, We would like to raise a suggestion to OpenAthens to provide an option for two factor authentication for access codes for personal accounts. In our situation, we require two factor authentication to follow our compliance with...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 Feedback wanted