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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Librarians

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Finding accounts without allocated permissions

It would be valuable to be able to filter for accounts without an allocated permission set, or to run a report to generate a list of accounts without an allocated permission set. We use a local connection to Okta for our accounts but occasionally ...
5 months ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

Change the messaging on the log in screen around the link to reset openathens password from problems logging in to Reset your password/ Register

Problems logging in seems to be not specific enough for our users. We are getting tickets opened on our help desk looking to reset openathens passwords, when the user should be able to do this themselves. Additionally, this text does not convey th...
3 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 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...
3 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 1 Feedback wanted

Ability to reject self-registration requests

It would be helpful if libraries could reject registration requests generated via their self-registration page, as this would save time during the account creation and activation process.
9 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Add a 'category' to resources for MyAthens+ resource lists

It would be great if we could create custom 'category' labels for our resources, so that when we generate our list of resources in MyAthens+, we can have lists for different subject areas or categories that suit us.
7 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

The ability to assign on-prem IP ranges to permission sets

We have our system configured to allow access to resources without authentication if the user is on a pair of recognized, on-prem, IP ranges. This works for most resources; however we have a few resources that are restricted to one IP range only. ...
7 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

MyAthens+ UNDO button needed

It would be highly beneficial to have an "UNDO" button (or a feature that shows previous versions of the interface) when using the admin version of MyAthens. This would eliminate the need to rely on memory or screenshots to maintain the layout in ...
7 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

'Group' filter - scroll bar required

We would like to make a request that a scroll bar is made visible when there are multiple groups to choose from when assigning a personal account to a particular group. Please see attached picture for reference. Currently, we are being shown 15 gr...
7 months ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

I would like to have a date field account created in the login section

in the login section there is a last login info, but no account created field, this could be helpful for BI statistics and other library operations
7 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 1 Feedback wanted

Support multiple language (including Japanese) for Report with Managed Directory customers

Please kindly consider to support multiple languages (including Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, Thai, etc) officially in Report function with Managed Directory customers. Currently only English is supported with this. If multiple languages c...
4 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted