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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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.
3 months 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 2 months ago in Librarians / Terminology 1 Feedback wanted

'Group' filter - scroll bar required

We would like to make a request that a scroll bar is made visible when there are multiple groups to choose from when assigning a personal account to a particular group. Please see attached picture for reference. Currently, we are being shown 15 gr...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

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?
3 months ago in Publishers / Reporting 0 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 ...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Add a 'category' to resources for MyAthens+ resource lists

It would be great if we could create custom 'category' labels for our resources, so that when we generate our list of resources in MyAthens+, we can have lists for different subject areas or categories that suit us.
21 days ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

MyAthens+ : More pages / improved navigation / better structure

Would like more tabs or pages to use within MyAthens+, rather than everything being on 1 page. It would be nice to be able to separate aspects of the information. So, on the front page, information about the library, then a separate page for their...
21 days ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 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...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Ability to Combine Attributes via Transform Rules

University of North Georgia is looking to create a new attribute via the Schema that combines the Student/Not Student attribute with the Position attribute. Here is the functionality they are looking for with this new attribute: New Attribute- Stu...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted

Share statistical report edited as we can see on administrators dashboard

The statistical reports we can view in Reporting would ideally be exportable in their edited format, exactly as we administrators see them on the platform, so that they can be shared with others. It is unfortunate and a significant drawback that w...
26 days ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted