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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Status Feedback wanted
Workspace Librarians
Categories User accounts and permission sets
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 8, 2025

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More help for users with multiple accounts

Please make it easier to have multiple accounts. i.e. student at 2 institutions with 2 OpenAthens accounts gets locked out regularly from one or the other

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? Yes
Idea type Day-to-day tasks/actions improvements
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  • Guest
    Sep 29, 2025

    Agreed - this would be very helpful! Our medical program is a joint program with another university, and both institutions use OpenAthens. Allowing the user to choose between two accounts in the same browser session would make if much easier for these users to access resources appropriately!

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