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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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

Publish the metadata for all of my 1:1 connections in a private XML file

I would like to be able to get a feed of the metadata for all of my 1:1 connections so that I can populate my back end system(s) with organization information for authorization and/or populating my discovery service. This feed must only be visible...
4 months ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration / Org discovery / WAYF (Wayfinder) 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