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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    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

    notification any time a new resource gets added to Compatible Providers search

    It would be great to have a way to get a notification any time a new resource gets added or updated in the Compatible Providers search. I want to know when new cards are added so I can proactively see if I need to allocate them. https://www.openat...
    11 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

    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 a column setting for “Last Sign In”

    "Add a 'Last Sign In' column for managed accounts in the users/accounts list, displayed in both the admin interface and the exported file, mirroring the functionality available for local accounts.
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    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

    See more than just one year's usage at a time in Reports

    In Reports > Data explorer > Resources > Usage, you can only see one year's worth of usage at a time. If you want more than just one year's usage, you have to update the start and end dates, download the report, update the start and end d...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 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 ...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / * Other 1 Research & discovery

    Option to auto-activate new resource tiles for already activated publishers

    I’d like to see auto-activation of resource tiles as an option. If we have a publisher’s resource tile activated and another one becomes available for them, I would like that to activate automatically either according to template options that we s...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Activating resources 0 Research & discovery

    Allow searching by username in Reports Dashboard

    Sometimes when we have a user who has reported an issue, or we're waiting for a user to test out accessing a particular resource, we want to be able to check on their activity via OpenAthens Reports Dashboard. If the user is not in the top number ...
    10 months ago in Librarians 0 Feedback wanted

    Improve "Save" UX across multiple features and functionality, but especially with suborg mapping

    This problem is frequent across the OpenAthens admin landscape, but it is especially cumbersome in Connections>Organizations>Mapping. In the context of our consortium, we have 60 public libraries on a single connection. Those suborgs are map...
    4 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted