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

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...
3 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

Allow searching by username in Reports Dashboard

Sometimes when we have a user who has reported an issue, or we're waiting for a user to test out accessing a particular resource, we want to be able to check on their activity via OpenAthens Reports Dashboard. If the user is not in the top number ...
2 months ago in Librarians 0 Feedback wanted

Admin access via SSO for security purposes

For security purposes our company would require to access to the OpenAthens admin portal via SSO. We know that this feature is not available at the moment and that the access is only available via username and password. Are you planning to impleme...
6 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 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...
8 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

Request to make First Name and Last Name non-mandatory for Bulk Upload

Currently, when we bulk upload personal accounts in the OpenAthens admin, both First Name and Last Name are mandatory. In some cases, it is difficult to export users' forenames and surnames separately. If either First Name or Last Name (or both...
5 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 2 Feedback wanted

Bypass organization or OpenAthens login page

When our users are prompted to log in, they must select our organization or OpenAthens as a choice for authentication, and we would prefer that they never see this page. We do not want them to have the choice to select OpenAthens. Our users do not...
8 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 9 Research & discovery

Video for students

create a video for students about what OA is and how to use it
9 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 1 Research & discovery

Feature Request: Enhance Dashboard Auditing Page

Currently, the dashboard auditing page lacks the ability to search or download auditing logs. This limitation makes it difficult to locate logs for specific accounts or export them for external auditing and compliance purposes. Additionally, the "...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery

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...
9 months ago in Librarians / Terminology 1 Research & discovery