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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Export a list of all resources assigned to a certain permission set

If I want to get a list of all resources assigned to a certain group of users, I can do a search and see the tiles listed on-screen, but I can't export a list of them. Would be great to be able to export lists like this simply eg as a csv, to make...
27 days ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 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...
27 days ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

The ability to assign on-prem IP ranges to permission sets

We have our system configured to allow access to resources without authentication if the user is on a pair of recognized, on-prem, IP ranges. This works for most resources; however we have a few resources that are restricted to one IP range only. ...
27 days ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

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

End-to-end APIs for application management

I would like for OpenAthens to publish a suite of APIs that I can hook-up to my internal systems so that I do not have to visit OpenAthens' service provider dashboard to performs actions such as; setting up new federated connections enabling feder...
3 months ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration / Supporting other federations 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

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.
4 months ago in Publishers / Reporting 1 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