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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    Prioritize/Rank/Re-order OpenAthens Federation results in Wayfinder institutional discovery search

    If an institution has membership in multiple federations (such as OpenAthens and InCommon), when a library patron searches for their institution name in an OpenAthens Wayfinder "Find your institution" search, they will see multiple results that al...
    11 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 1 Feedback wanted

    Admin Activity Log for OpenAthens

    I would like to request an enhancement to the OpenAthens admin interface to include a log history of administrative modifications. Currently, the system does not provide a detailed audit trail of changes made by admin accounts. Default permission ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / * Other 1 Research & discovery

    Fulltext Usage

    Currently, OpenAthens provides the session/login counts for publishers/patrons. We cannot identify their actual FT usage of resources accessed via OA. This feature would be a great value addition for all OA users and administrators.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

    Multi-factor authentication for managed accounts

    Some institutions require MFA for end-users as part of their due diligence process. Can MFA for end-users be made available within OpenAthens, specifically for managed accounts?
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Read only view of Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings for Administrators

    Currently OAMD allows two types of Admin Roles in the platform, Administrator and Owner. Owner has enhanced access in that it can edit Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings. Administrators have no access to these areas at all, which...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Research & discovery

    Ability to obtain eduPersonTargetedIDs for users

    OpenAthens generates a unique eduPersonTargetedID value for each user. That attribute is frequently used to create personal user accounts with SAML-based SPs. It's how SPs remember the user on subsequent logins so they can pair them with their sav...
    8 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    OA Redirector: Allow access mechanism selection.

    We use OpenAthens and the OpenAthens Proxy.The Redirector will always use Federated access whenever it's available. Some resources do not work well with Federated access, which is why we Proxy them.e.g. Some do not allow deep linking through their...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy / Redirector 0 Research & discovery

    Have OpenAthens' SP reporting data report on unique users

    The reports tell me the quantity of transfers to my products from a particular organization, in a given timeframe, but not how many unique users these transfers equate to; is it 100 people transferring once each, or 1 person transferring 100 times?
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

    Add Error Template for "Mandatory attribute (unique user) not provided"

    Admins are currently able to edit the error templates for various error messages via Preferences > Error Templates. However, not every error message has a template on this page. Recently a patron received this error message: Error message title...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / OpenAthens support 2 Feedback wanted

    Longer-lasting sessions/cookies

    1. Make the "Access code" requrement take much longer to re-appear (months instead of weeks). Being required to wait for this code so often is disruptive to workflow. At least IP-validate on site like it once did. 2. Make the session times much lo...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 4 Research & discovery