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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    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...
    almost 2 years ago in Publishers / Application configuration / Org discovery / WAYF (Wayfinder) 0 Feedback wanted

    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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 4 Research & discovery

    Change the term "Active" on accounts to mean Active

    It turns out that when an account is displayed as "Active" it doesn't mean it is actually active (being used), just that the user has set a password. This is so counter intuitive that I suspect it's not just all of my colleagues (and me) who misun...
    almost 2 years ago in Librarians / Terminology 1 Research & discovery

    Allow searching by username in Reports Dashboard

    Sometimes when we have a user who has reported an issue, or we're waiting for a user to test out accessing a particular resource, we want to be able to check on their activity via OpenAthens Reports Dashboard. If the user is not in the top number ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians 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

    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.
    about 2 years ago in Publishers / Reporting 1 Research & discovery

    Additional Sign In Logo Options

    Dear OpenAthens Team, We would like to raise a suggestion to provide an option to put in additional logo or pictures in 2 login areas for organizations under umbrella companies or transnational education programs with other universities. What it i...
    8 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    OrgID-level linking, create links to a specific sub-org

    Currently, all OpenAthens linking seems to be based on the Entity ID. This means that sub-orgs who do not have their own Entity ID (and instead inherit it from their Domain) have no choice but to navigate through the login journey starting at the ...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Org information 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.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens 3 Feedback wanted

    Terms of use page

    E-resources licensing agreements sometimes require that institutions use reasonable methods to inform their users about restrictions on the terms of use (i.e. non-commercial, no reverse engineering, etc.). Libraries have few good options for putti...
    almost 2 years ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 0 Feedback wanted