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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'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...
3 months ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

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
3 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 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.
5 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 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

Upload files to MyAthens

It would be helpful if librarians could upload files to MyAthens. I want to add some pdf tutorials to MyAthens, but I don’t have a public website to host them on.
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

Ability to select more user Titles to include in the usage graphs

My library users have many different Titles because my library serves both a college and hospital. It would be helpful if I could select more than 9 user Titles to include in the line graph.
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 2 Feedback wanted

MyAthens+ Web analytics / statistics

To help research and understand user behaviour, it would be great if MyAthens+ recorded some basic web analytics data such as link clicks/search box usage. Ideally categorised by user attributes (like other OpenAthens statistics) while preserving ...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

MyAthens+ LibKey DOI/PMID lookup box

MyAthens+ already supports a few types of search box to enable resource discovery. A libkey.io DOI and PubMed ID lookup search box for mutual customers would be great. It would allow users seeking a specific reference to check for and access full ...
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

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 2 months 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 2 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources 1 Feedback wanted