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.

Just sign in with your email to share your thoughts or vote for ideas you like—it'll help them get noticed!


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.


Guidance on using this portal

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    Ability to obtain eduPersonTargetedIDs for users

    OpenAthens generates a unique eduPersonTargetedID value for each user. That attribute is frequently used to create personal user accounts with SAML-based SPs. It's how SPs remember the user on subsequent logins so they can pair them with their sav...
    9 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Add Error Template for "Mandatory attribute (unique user) not provided"

    Admins are currently able to edit the error templates for various error messages via Preferences > Error Templates. However, not every error message has a template on this page. Recently a patron received this error message: Error message title...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / OpenAthens support 2 Feedback wanted

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

    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

    Users' activity tab timestamp

    For very recent activity, this shows a timestamp as "A minute ago" or "3 minutes ago". This sort of relative time is not useful! Please give these entries a proper timestamp, e.g. "12 December 2023 at 11:12"
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Overall usability 0 Research & discovery

    Video for students

    create a video for students about what OA is and how to use it
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 1 Research & discovery

    Ability to export and import settings configurations in OA Admin

    Develop support for exporting and importing OpenAthens Admin settings via XML file. Use case #1: Onboarding When setting up a new library, upload a file of their customizations and preferences so that less manual work (e.g. clicking, typing, searc...
    9 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / OpenAthens support  / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    Additional Sign In Logo Options

    Dear OpenAthens Team, We would like to raise a suggestion to provide an option to put in additional logo or pictures in 2 login areas for organizations under umbrella companies or transnational education programs with other universities. What it i...
    5 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    Remember my computer for longer

    I would like less frequent requests to confirm access codes when I'm on the same device.
    9 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted