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

    Show UX when editing Login area

    Dear OpenAthens Team, We would like to raise a suggestion to show live UX picture example on the right-hand side when editing the login area for Display Names, Description, logo, etc. What it is currently: Ticket 2 Show UX 1A and 1B What we are th...
    5 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    Prioritize/Rank/Re-order OpenAthens Federation results in Wayfinder institutional discovery search

    If an institution has membership in multiple federations (such as OpenAthens and InCommon), when a library patron searches for their institution name in an OpenAthens Wayfinder "Find your institution" search, they will see multiple results that al...
    12 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 1 Feedback wanted

    Redirector "domain bypass" - let admins whitelist target domains where authentication isn't required (equivalent to EZProxy's NeverProxy or RedirectSafe functionality)

    ENHANCEMENT REQUEST Add a 'Domain Bypass' OR "Domain Whitelist" to the Preferences --> Redirector section of OA admin BUSINESS NEED: Redirector links must have some local flexibility to improve the compatibility with third-party library systems...
    4 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 0 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...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / OpenAthens support 2 Feedback wanted

    Ability to transform attributes including the value from another attribute

    We would like to be able to use the value from an existing attribute (e.g. one passed in from local connector) to form part of a new attribute and add free text to it.e.g. SAMaccountName attribute (e.g. abc123) + our domain scope - to make abc123@...
    2 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted

    Scope EPPN when it is used as SAML NameID attribute

    We followed instructions to create EPPN attribute via local connector and it is scoped when released as urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.6, however our service provider requires the EPPN value to be mapped as SAML NameID and it is then released unsc...
    2 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted

    notification any time a new resource gets added to Compatible Providers search

    It would be great to have a way to get a notification any time a new resource gets added or updated in the Compatible Providers search. I want to know when new cards are added so I can proactively see if I need to allocate them. https://www.openat...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

    See more than just one year's usage at a time in Reports

    In Reports > Data explorer > Resources > Usage, you can only see one year's worth of usage at a time. If you want more than just one year's usage, you have to update the start and end dates, download the report, update the start and end d...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    Ability to export and import settings configurations in OA Admin

    Develop support for exporting and importing OpenAthens Admin settings via XML file. Use case #1: Onboarding When setting up a new library, upload a file of their customizations and preferences so that less manual work (e.g. clicking, typing, searc...
    9 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / OpenAthens support  / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    Remember my computer for longer

    I would like less frequent requests to confirm access codes when I'm on the same device.
    10 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted