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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Librarians

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Automatically apply redirector syntax for curated resource list

It would be great for the MyAthens+ curated resource list to automatically apply WAYFless syntax, rather than updating the access URL in the resource catalogue.
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

Get 1:1/custom SAML resource configurations into the OA Federation - IDP

As we have seen with the recent OA certificate update its been difficult and confusing to get some of these resources to make updates. What will happen 10 years from now when there is even more of them? What can be done to get these resources into...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Activating resources 1 Feedback wanted

Report for rejected OpenAthens account registrations

could you generate a report on instances where people registered for an account but were rejected (due to issues like incorrect email addresses/not a member of institution) At the moment we are archiving the email alerts but would like to be able ...
3 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 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.
4 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

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...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 0 Feedback wanted

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...
2 months 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...
2 months ago in Librarians / 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 ...
2 months 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
2 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Incorrect text alignment in MyAthens for RTL languages

A client has reported an issue with the RTL display in My Athens: The periods appear on the right even when the text is RTL because the alignment is LTR. The customer is asking to change the alignment to be based on the language used for each line...
3 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted