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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    Improve Messaging in Public OpenAthens Link Generator Tool for Non-Redirectable Resources

    Description: A customer requested improved guidance within the OpenAthens “Create Links” tool when users attempt to generate redirector links for non-redirectable resources. Public OA Link Generator: https://go.openathens.net/generate/ Currently, ...
    5 months ago in Librarians / Documentation / Redirector 0 Feedback wanted

    Add a 'Notes' field to the Resource Details page in OpenAthens Admin

    The notes field would be a place to record any history for that particular resource such as changes made to the URL which could be useful for admins when troubleshooting future problems. This field should not be changed/cleared when using the Reve...
    6 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

    Localise the User Interfaces (support translation to multiple languages, date formats, time zones)

    Please add support to localise the user interfaces (support translation to multiple languages, date formats, time zones). Key interfaces: Authentication point - personal account and brokered logins (not including delegated connector) MyAthens+...
    7 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Org discovery (Wayfinder) / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    OA Redirector: Allow access mechanism selection.

    We use OpenAthens and the OpenAthens Proxy.The Redirector will always use Federated access whenever it's available. Some resources do not work well with Federated access, which is why we Proxy them.e.g. Some do not allow deep linking through their...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy / Redirector 0 Research & discovery

    Admin Activity Log for OpenAthens

    I would like to request an enhancement to the OpenAthens admin interface to include a log history of administrative modifications. Currently, the system does not provide a detailed audit trail of changes made by admin accounts. Default permission ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / * Other 2 Research & discovery

    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

    Add OpenAthens Redirector statistics to the Reporting Dashboard (usage by domain, errors and IP bypass)

    Add Redirector Statistics and Error Reporting to the OpenAthens Reporting Dashboard to restore lost functionality and deliver new insights for libraries. Why This Matters: Visibility: Libraries currently lack data on IP bypass usage, limiting th...
    11 months ago in Librarians / Redirector / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

    Read only view of Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings for Administrators

    Currently OAMD allows two types of Admin Roles in the platform, Administrator and Owner. Owner has enhanced access in that it can edit Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings. Administrators have no access to these areas at all, which...
    almost 2 years ago in Librarians / Administrators 1 Research & discovery

    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.
    11 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 2 Feedback wanted

    Ability to apply IP authentication to OpenAthens admin login in addition to username/password

    Currently, login to the OpenAthens admin portal is available via username and password only. The customer would like the option to add IP authentication as an additional security measure. This way, even if the username and password are compromised...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators 2 Feedback wanted