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

    When OpenAthens sub-org inherits local authentication connector, enable Default Permission Set by default

    Typically, when creating a local authentication connector such as SAML, the Permissions tab starts out with the Default permission set automatically enabled. This is consistent with the documentation at https://docs.openathens.net/libraries/permis...
    6 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

    Improve readability of domains in Link Format field

    The Link Format field of each resource contains a URL that is applied to one or more web domains for that publisher. The domains appear only in a popup box upon mousing over the text box containing the URL. In many cases, such as the resource Else...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 2 Feedback wanted

    Ability to export and import settings configurations in OA Admin

    Develop support for exporting and importing OpenAthens Admin settings via XML file. Use case #1: Onboarding When setting up a new library, upload a file of their customizations and preferences so that less manual work (e.g. clicking, typing, searc...
    7 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / OpenAthens support  / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    Create a separate login page that is not connected to SAML for other types of users

    We do not want to turn on the landing page that makes our patrons choose how to authenticate bc most of the time we are using SAML. We would like a separate log in page for guest accounts to use for community patrons, vendors, and alumni.
    12 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens 3 Feedback wanted

    Users receive non relevant errors messages

    For example a user when changing password received a 'invalid activation code' message. It didn't explain to the user what they had done wrong. Another example a user was renewing their account and got the password word wrong they received the mes...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Overall usability  / Terminology 0 Feedback wanted

    Terms of use page

    E-resources licensing agreements sometimes require that institutions use reasonable methods to inform their users about restrictions on the terms of use (i.e. non-commercial, no reverse engineering, etc.). Libraries have few good options for putti...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 Feedback wanted

    Email templates - how to create more

    I would like to suggest an enhancement to the current email template functionality, specifically the ability to create and assign customised email templates based on user groups. Currently, the system uses a generic email template for account crea...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

    Change the messaging on the log in screen around the link to reset openathens password from problems logging in to Reset your password/ Register

    Problems logging in seems to be not specific enough for our users. We are getting tickets opened on our help desk looking to reset openathens passwords, when the user should be able to do this themselves. Additionally, this text does not convey th...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 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...
    over 1 year 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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted