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 select more user Titles to include in the usage graphs

My library users have many different Titles because my library serves both a college and hospital. It would be helpful if I could select more than 9 user Titles to include in the line graph.
4 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 2 Feedback wanted

MyAthens+ Web analytics / statistics

To help research and understand user behaviour, it would be great if MyAthens+ recorded some basic web analytics data such as link clicks/search box usage. Ideally categorised by user attributes (like other OpenAthens statistics) while preserving ...
4 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

MyAthens+ LibKey DOI/PMID lookup box

MyAthens+ already supports a few types of search box to enable resource discovery. A libkey.io DOI and PubMed ID lookup search box for mutual customers would be great. It would allow users seeking a specific reference to check for and access full ...
4 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

Automatically apply redirector syntax for curated resource list

It would be great for the MyAthens+ curated resource list to automatically apply WAYFless syntax, rather than updating the access URL in the resource catalogue.
4 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 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...
4 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources 1 Feedback wanted

Possibility of restricting personal OpenAthens accounts to specific IP addresses

Access accounts are often not the best choice when access to resources needs to be restricted to specific IP addresses (e.g., on-campus locations). This is because some providers require authentication using personal information, such as individua...
5 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 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
5 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Incorrect text alignment in MyAthens for RTL languages

A client has reported an issue with the RTL display in My Athens: The periods appear on the right even when the text is RTL because the alignment is LTR. The customer is asking to change the alignment to be based on the language used for each line...
6 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted