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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Please give option to 'reset my password' on admin.openathens.net

On admin.openathens.net, there is no option to reset my password. This results in delays, and less usage of the product.
25 days ago in Librarians / Administrators / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Adding a personal account / admin account should be combined somehow

When adding a personal account in OpenAthens, you need to create an account, then go to the 'Preferences' - 'Organisation' option, then go to the 'Administrator' tab to give them the account admin permissions needed. To save extra steps, perhaps t...
4 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Feedback wanted

Add "includes" as another option besides "matches" in the Advanced Search

We are not able to know how many active accounts exist at any given time by user group. Each local account has multiple Groups (an attribute) associated with it. Being able to use "includes" logic for Account attributes in the Advanced Search woul...
3 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Resource Catalog Export with Direct URLs

Allow allocated resources to be exported with direct URLs.
2 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 1 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...
3 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

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

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 months ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration 0 Feedback wanted

Disaggregate transfer data for journals on my platform

Make library transfer data more meaningful for all my customers by showing at journal level for my platform. Previously discussed with customers and OpenAthens.
6 months ago in Publishers / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

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...
4 months 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...
4 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted

Add a 'category' to resources for MyAthens+ resource lists

It would be great if we could create custom 'category' labels for our resources, so that when we generate our list of resources in MyAthens+, we can have lists for different subject areas or categories that suit us.
3 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted