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

    Automatically apply redirector syntax for curated resource list

    It would be great for the MyAthens+ curated resource list to automatically apply WAYFless syntax, rather than updating the access URL in the resource catalogue.
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

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

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Activating resources 1 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.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Overall usability  / Resource catalogue 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 ...
    over 1 year 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...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    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
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    Report for rejected OpenAthens account registrations

    could you generate a report on instances where people registered for an account but were rejected (due to issues like incorrect email addresses/not a member of institution) At the moment we are archiving the email alerts but would like to be able ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

    Make it easier to edit text/offer guidance in the "Domain" area across more than one IdP connection

    When an institution has more than one connection (student/faculty & staff) it should be simpler to edit the OpenAthens login screen in domain settings, and admins should be able to edit text and messages all in one place.
    11 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    MyAthens+ Localization

    In addition to the current A to Z, we would like hosting and browsing in local languages.(ex. Japanese: Hiragana (あいうえお....) To do this, the resource needs a additonal metadata for hosting and sorting (local language title).
    11 months ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens 0 Feedback wanted

    Removal of the Default Permission Set requires customer approval before proceeding.

    If a permission set were to be accidentally deleted, it could lead to the loss of access to all associated resources. To help prevent this, it would be beneficial to require Library Administrator approval before any permission set is permanently d...
    12 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery