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

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Ability to sort account status

We use SSO for our account management in Athens. I manage the administration on suspended accounts for assessment. I would like to be able to sort the Status column to just see our suspended accounts instead of scrolling through lists.
27 days ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Put Allocated Resources in A-Z order in the Data Explorer dropdown list

Only include Allocated Resources in the Data Explorer dropdown list and put them in A-Z order. Including just the library's Allocated Resources and arranging them in A-Z order in the Data Explorer dropdown list would make it easier for librarians ...
28 days ago in Librarians / Reporting / Resource catalogue / Search and navigation 0 Feedback wanted

Athens Admin - who logged in on map

would be good if on the map where you see logins you could see the user ids
28 days ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Ability to reject self-registration requests

It would be helpful if libraries could reject registration requests generated via their self-registration page, as this would save time during the account creation and activation process.
3 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

MyAthens+ UNDO button needed

It would be highly beneficial to have an "UNDO" button (or a feature that shows previous versions of the interface) when using the admin version of MyAthens. This would eliminate the need to rely on memory or screenshots to maintain the layout in ...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

I would like to have a date field account created in the login section

in the login section there is a last login info, but no account created field, this could be helpful for BI statistics and other library operations
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Get 1:1/custom SAML resource configurations into the OA Federation - IDP

As we have seen with the recent OA certificate update its been difficult and confusing to get some of these resources to make updates. What will happen 10 years from now when there is even more of them? What can be done to get these resources into...
2 days ago in Librarians / Activating resources 0 Feedback wanted