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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Snapshot Feature for Rapid Rollback

, I would like to propose an additional feature to further improve system recovery and minimize service disruptions caused by human errors. To facilitate quick rollback and resolution, we request the implementation of automatic system snapshots ta...
3 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 0 Research & discovery

Resource Catalog Export with Direct URLs

Allow allocated resources to be exported with direct URLs.
4 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 1 Feedback wanted

MyAthens URL with embedded Access Account logins

We are looking for a MyAthens access URL that includes the username and password embedded into it. This access URL would be shared with users that are on-site using the Access Account(the MD account that requires you to be on a registered IP). Thi...
3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

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.
3 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / User accounts and permission sets 1 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...
4 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 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.
8 months ago in Publishers / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

Support multiple language (including Japanese) for Report with Managed Directory customers

Please kindly consider to support multiple languages (including Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, Thai, etc) officially in Report function with Managed Directory customers. Currently only English is supported with this. If multiple languages c...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 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.
5 months ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

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...
5 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Finding accounts without allocated permissions

It would be valuable to be able to filter for accounts without an allocated permission set, or to run a report to generate a list of accounts without an allocated permission set. We use a local connection to Okta for our accounts but occasionally ...
3 months ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery