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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    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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted

    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

    Request to support non-standard ports (e.g. 8080) on the proxy.

    Currently the OpenAthens proxy supports only standard HTTP/HTTPS ports (80 and 443). Some customers have locally hosted resources running on non-standard ports, for example http://www.domain.com:8080, which cannot be supported yet.
    about 1 month ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy 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

    Allow OpenAthens to dynamically apply Permission Sets based on a user's access location (on-campus or off-campus network).

    Many institutions manage electronic resource access under licence agreements that distinguish between on-campus and off-campus use. At our institution, some user groups are permitted to access only a subset of resources remotely, while additional ...
    about 1 month ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Attribute release / User accounts and permission sets 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

    Layout of "Contact your organization" window of error message

    The layout of the window that opens when clicking on "Contact your organization" on an error message is not UX friendly. The current layout is vertical and does not take up the whole screen, so the user has to scroll to see the whole message, the ...
    3 months ago in Librarians / OpenAthens support  / Terminology 1 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

    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