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

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Status Feedback wanted
Workspace Librarians
Categories Accessing resources
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 12, 2026

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Double Authentication for OpenAthens Personal Accounts

Dear OpenAthens Team,

We would like to raise a suggestion to OpenAthens to provide an option for two factor authentication for access codes for personal accounts. In our situation, we require two factor authentication to follow our compliance with our cyber essentials plus certification, and we have some students that do not have a university email and are using their personal emails from our technology course. Example: Something that ties with Microsoft Authenticator app.

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? Yes
Idea type Improves value of OpenAthens to my team/organization, Something new
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