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 Accessing resources Documentation Org discovery (Wayfinder)
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 16, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Customizable authentication page branding (HTML editor - more flexible CSS branding)

Provide more flexible out-of-the-box branding customization for the authentication point (similar to EZProxy), ideally via a HTML editor or support for uploaded CSS/HTML files.

At a minimum, libraries should be able to replace all the English text/labels on the UI (to help with localisation). However, ideally the authentication point should be able to meet branding guidelines of the institution.

The current workaround requires an API connector, which many libraries lack the technical expertise to configure and there is no documented use case for building an API connector with the Managed Directory API specifically for customizing the authentication point branding.

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? No
Idea type Ease of use of specific or groups of tasks/actions
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  • Guest
    Apr 27, 2026

    I also strongly support this idea! Being able to customize the authentication page to match our institutional branding would be a huge improvement for us, and would reduce the complexity of our current authentication flow

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  • Guest
    Apr 20, 2026

    We struggled with the reduced customizability of OpenAthens pages when we migrated from EZproxy, and we continue to hope for more flexibility in the future. I wholeheartedly support this idea!

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