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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    Be able to report on multiline text fields

    As a library admin I want to be able to report on multiline text attribute so I can get more granular data out of OpenAthens. If you have a text custom schema attribute such as:coursesEnrolled where it can contain a value like:"Math, Information T...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    Ability to Combine Attributes via Transform Rules

    University of North Georgia is looking to create a new attribute via the Schema that combines the Student/Not Student attribute with the Position attribute. Here is the functionality they are looking for with this new attribute: New Attribute- Stu...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted

    Make OpenAthens' aggregated SP reporting data available via an API

    I already use internal dashboards to consume external data sources. I would like to be able to add OpenAthens Federation reporting data to those dashboards.
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 year ago in Librarians / Activating resources 1 Feedback wanted

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

    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 year ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration 0 Feedback wanted

    Add a 'category' to resources for MyAthens+ resource lists

    It would be great if we could create custom 'category' labels for our resources, so that when we generate our list of resources in MyAthens+, we can have lists for different subject areas or categories that suit us.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

    MyAthens+ UNDO button needed

    It would be highly beneficial to have an "UNDO" button (or a feature that shows previous versions of the interface) when using the admin version of MyAthens. This would eliminate the need to rely on memory or screenshots to maintain the layout in ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability 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 ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted