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

Clear

OpenAthens

    Improve "Save" UX across multiple features and functionality, but especially with suborg mapping

    This problem is frequent across the OpenAthens admin landscape, but it is especially cumbersome in Connections>Organizations>Mapping. In the context of our consortium, we have 60 public libraries on a single connection. Those suborgs are map...
    6 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...
    9 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    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...
    7 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 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

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 2 Feedback wanted

    Feature Request: Enhance Dashboard Auditing Page

    Currently, the dashboard auditing page lacks the ability to search or download auditing logs. This limitation makes it difficult to locate logs for specific accounts or export them for external auditing and compliance purposes. Additionally, the "...
    11 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / Search and navigation 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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 0 Research & discovery

    Please give option to 'reset my password' on admin.openathens.net

    On admin.openathens.net, there is no option to reset my password. This results in delays, and less usage of the product.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    End-to-end APIs for application management

    I would like for OpenAthens to publish a suite of APIs that I can hook-up to my internal systems so that I do not have to visit OpenAthens' service provider dashboard to performs actions such as; setting up new federated connections enabling feder...
    over 1 year ago in Publishers / Application configuration / Keystone configuration / Supporting other federations 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 ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery