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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    Prioritize/Rank/Re-order OpenAthens Federation results in Wayfinder institutional discovery search

    If an institution has membership in multiple federations (such as OpenAthens and InCommon), when a library patron searches for their institution name in an OpenAthens Wayfinder "Find your institution" search, they will see multiple results that al...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 1 Feedback wanted

    Allow OpenAthens to dynamically apply Permission Sets based on a user's access location (on-campus or off-campus network).

    Many institutions manage electronic resource access under licence agreements that distinguish between on-campus and off-campus use. At our institution, some user groups are permitted to access only a subset of resources remotely, while additional ...
    about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Attribute release / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

    Enhance Link Generator to Convert Proxied URLs

    I’d like to request an enhancement to the OpenAthens Link Generator tool (example: https://go.openathens.net/generate/myInstitution.edu/123456787 to improve its ability to handle generic proxied URLs. Currently, the generator successfully converts...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Proxy / Redirector 0 Research & discovery

    Download graphs as PDFs

    It would be helpful if librarians could download graphs in the reporting module as PDFs, as this would save time when sharing usage reports with management during the subscription renewal period.
    almost 2 years ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

    Have OpenAthens' SP reporting data report on unique users

    The reports tell me the quantity of transfers to my products from a particular organization, in a given timeframe, but not how many unique users these transfers equate to; is it 100 people transferring once each, or 1 person transferring 100 times?
    about 2 years ago in Publishers / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

    Allow restricted mode on a per resource basis (with permissive mode enabled)

    I have a request to restrict access to certain specific resources to certain groups of our users. OpenAthens allows for either:Restrictive mode - Each and every resource is allocated based on Permission sets.Permissive Mode - Everyone can access E...
    almost 2 years ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    Fulltext Usage

    Currently, OpenAthens provides the session/login counts for publishers/patrons. We cannot identify their actual FT usage of resources accessed via OA. This feature would be a great value addition for all OA users and administrators.
    almost 2 years ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

    Multi-factor authentication for managed accounts

    Some institutions require MFA for end-users as part of their due diligence process. Can MFA for end-users be made available within OpenAthens, specifically for managed accounts?
    almost 2 years ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Management-->Connections--><connection>--> Live Does not behave as expected.

    We need to decommission an obsolete ADFS Connection. We removed it from 'Default' a year ago, replaced with another mechanism.Un-checking 'Visible' and 'Live' we expected to disable the Connection. This is not the case and was unexpected behaviour...
    2 months ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted

    Double Authentication for OpenAthens Personal Accounts

    Dear OpenAthens Team, We would like to raise a suggestion to OpenAthens to provide an option for two factor authentication for access codes for personal accounts. In our situation, we require two factor authentication to follow our compliance with...
    8 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 Feedback wanted