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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    OA Redirector: Allow access mechanism selection.

    We use OpenAthens and the OpenAthens Proxy.The Redirector will always use Federated access whenever it's available. Some resources do not work well with Federated access, which is why we Proxy them.e.g. Some do not allow deep linking through their...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy / Redirector 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

    Add OpenAthens Redirector statistics to the Reporting Dashboard (usage by domain, errors and IP bypass)

    Add Redirector Statistics and Error Reporting to the OpenAthens Reporting Dashboard to restore lost functionality and deliver new insights for libraries. Why This Matters: Visibility: Libraries currently lack data on IP bypass usage, limiting th...
    4 months ago in Librarians / Redirector / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

    When OpenAthens sub-org inherits local authentication connector, enable Default Permission Set by default

    Typically, when creating a local authentication connector such as SAML, the Permissions tab starts out with the Default permission set automatically enabled. This is consistent with the documentation at https://docs.openathens.net/libraries/permis...
    4 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

    Expand upon reports API

    The API does not really do much, I would like to be able to automatically import the data we are getting from it to another source since we have many forms of tracking user data. However, I cannot because the reports API only handles one type. I w...
    7 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    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

    Share statistical report edited as we can see on administrators dashboard

    The statistical reports we can view in Reporting would ideally be exportable in their edited format, exactly as we administrators see them on the platform, so that they can be shared with others. It is unfortunate and a significant drawback that w...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

    Request to make First Name and Last Name non-mandatory for Bulk Upload

    Currently, when we bulk upload personal accounts in the OpenAthens admin, both First Name and Last Name are mandatory. In some cases, it is difficult to export users' forenames and surnames separately. If either First Name or Last Name (or both...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 4 Research & discovery

    Bypass organization or OpenAthens login page

    When our users are prompted to log in, they must select our organization or OpenAthens as a choice for authentication, and we would prefer that they never see this page. We do not want them to have the choice to select OpenAthens. Our users do not...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 9 Research & discovery

    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...
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Application configuration / Org discovery / WAYF (Wayfinder) 0 Feedback wanted