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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Feature Request: Enhance Dashboard Auditing Page

Currently, the dashboard auditing page lacks the ability to search or download auditing logs. This limitation makes it difficult to locate logs for specific accounts or export them for external auditing and compliance purposes. Additionally, the "...
4 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery

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.
about 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

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 ...
9 months ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

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. ...
11 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

'Group' filter - scroll bar required

We would like to make a request that a scroll bar is made visible when there are multiple groups to choose from when assigning a personal account to a particular group. Please see attached picture for reference. Currently, we are being shown 15 gr...
11 months ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

I would like to have a date field account created in the login section

in the login section there is a last login info, but no account created field, this could be helpful for BI statistics and other library operations
11 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

Removal of the Default Permission Set requires customer approval before proceeding.

If a permission set were to be accidentally deleted, it could lead to the loss of access to all associated resources. To help prevent this, it would be beneficial to require Library Administrator approval before any permission set is permanently d...
6 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

Move the user search to be more aligned with where one searches and results appear.

The user experience when searching for users has been improved with logic, etc. but the process still begins in the bar well above and outside the visual scope of where search results appear, and then separated by a grey banner.
8 months ago in Librarians / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery

Remove unused titles and subscriptions

We were informed we could not remove no longer subscribed to titles in our admin area. Due to the set up of our resources, we manage a suite of differnt user groups, so when logging into our admin area, we would only like to see current subs. Alth...
8 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue / Search and navigation 1 Research & discovery

MyAthens+ : More pages / improved navigation / better structure

Would like more tabs or pages to use within MyAthens+, rather than everything being on 1 page. It would be nice to be able to separate aspects of the information. So, on the front page, information about the library, then a separate page for their...
10 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 0 Research & discovery