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.


Guidance on using this portal

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

    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"
    almost 2 years ago in Librarians / Overall usability 0 Research & discovery

    Video for students

    create a video for students about what OA is and how to use it
    almost 2 years ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 1 Research & discovery

    Show UX when editing Login area

    Dear OpenAthens Team, We would like to raise a suggestion to show live UX picture example on the right-hand side when editing the login area for Display Names, Description, logo, etc. What it is currently: Ticket 2 Show UX 1A and 1B What we are th...
    8 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information / Overall usability 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...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 1 Feedback wanted

    Automatically sort users in Accounts > List by Last Signed In

    The default sorting method for local authentication connectors in Accounts > List doesn't seem to follow any particular pattern. Instead, could the list automatically start with the most recent users sorted to the top?
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue / 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...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Resource catalogue / User accounts and permission sets 0 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...
    almost 2 years ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

    Remember my computer for longer

    I would like less frequent requests to confirm access codes when I'm on the same device.
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted

    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...
    almost 2 years ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 9 Research & discovery

    Show which username triggered the "insufficient attributes" authentication error

    We occasionally see "Authentication failed - insufficient attributes | Expected unique user id attribute not found" errors in OpenAthens Admin under Auditing. Currently, these error messages do not show which username experienced the problem. This...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted