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.

Just sign in with your email to share your thoughts or vote for ideas you like—it'll help them get noticed!


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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Email templates - how to create more

I would like to suggest an enhancement to the current email template functionality, specifically the ability to create and assign customised email templates based on user groups. Currently, the system uses a generic email template for account crea...
10 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

Be able to report on multiline text fields

As a library admin I want to be able to report on multiline text attribute so I can get more granular data out of OpenAthens. If you have a text custom schema attribute such as:coursesEnrolled where it can contain a value like:"Math, Information T...
10 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Ability to Combine Attributes via Transform Rules

University of North Georgia is looking to create a new attribute via the Schema that combines the Student/Not Student attribute with the Position attribute. Here is the functionality they are looking for with this new attribute: New Attribute- Stu...
10 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release 0 Feedback wanted

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...
7 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 0 Research & discovery

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.
12 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Make OpenAthens' aggregated SP reporting data available via an API

I already use internal dashboards to consume external data sources. I would like to be able to add OpenAthens Federation reporting data to those dashboards.
12 months ago in Publishers / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

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 ...
8 months ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

Get 1:1/custom SAML resource configurations into the OA Federation

As we have seen with the recent OA certificate update its been difficult and confusing to get some of these resources to make updates. What will happen 10 years from now when there is even more of them? What can be done to get these resources into...
9 months ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration 0 Feedback wanted

Create a separate login page that is not connected to SAML for other types of users

We do not want to turn on the landing page that makes our patrons choose how to authenticate bc most of the time we are using SAML. We would like a separate log in page for guest accounts to use for community patrons, vendors, and alumni.
5 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens 3 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.
9 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted