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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    General Redirector URL

    I wanted to suggest a possible feature that could be useful for scenarios like the one we're facing with the resource Index to Hebrew Periodicals, which is used by various OpenAthens customers. Currently, the Catalog administrator cannot add a spe...
    about 1 year ago in Publishers / Application configuration / Org discovery / WAYF (Wayfinder) 0 Feedback wanted

    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...
    6 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 1 Feedback wanted

    Improve readability of domains in Link Format field

    The Link Format field of each resource contains a URL that is applied to one or more web domains for that publisher. The domains appear only in a popup box upon mousing over the text box containing the URL. In many cases, such as the resource Else...
    9 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 2 Feedback wanted

    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...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / OpenAthens support  / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    Disaggregate transfer data for journals on my platform

    Make library transfer data more meaningful for all my customers by showing at journal level for my platform. Previously discussed with customers and OpenAthens.
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

    OrgID-level linking, create links to a specific sub-org

    Currently, all OpenAthens linking seems to be based on the Entity ID. This means that sub-orgs who do not have their own Entity ID (and instead inherit it from their Domain) have no choice but to navigate through the login journey starting at the ...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    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...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Allocate a list of resources via file upload

    While it would be great to export a list of resources currently allocated to a Permission Set (see IDP-I-45), it would also help if we could do the reverse and allocate resources by way of a file upload (such as .CSV). Then we could basically "cop...
    3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Resource catalogue / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Snapshot Feature for Rapid Rollback

    , I would like to propose an additional feature to further improve system recovery and minimize service disruptions caused by human errors. To facilitate quick rollback and resolution, we request the implementation of automatic system snapshots ta...
    11 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 0 Research & discovery

    MyAthens URL with embedded Access Account logins

    We are looking for a MyAthens access URL that includes the username and password embedded into it. This access URL would be shared with users that are on-site using the Access Account(the MD account that requires you to be on a registered IP). Thi...
    11 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery