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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Status Feedback wanted
Workspace Librarians
Categories Org information
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 24, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

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 Domain-level.

We are requesting the ability to send links through a specific Org ID, regardless of its Entity ID.

This would be helpful for sub-orgs that want their own unique login experience.

It would also prevent conflicts when users meet criteria for multiple organisations-- having an Org ID specified in the URL they clicked would automatically determine which organisation to log them in through.

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? Yes
Idea type The big picture - substantial or foundational change to OpenAthens, Something to improve, Ease of use of specific or groups of tasks/actions
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