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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.


Guidance on using this portal

Status Feedback wanted
Workspace Librarians
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 16, 2026

Localise the User Interfaces (support translation to multiple languages, date formats, time zones)

Please add support to localise the user interfaces (support translation to multiple languages, date formats, time zones).

Key interfaces:

  • Authentication point - personal account and brokered logins (not including delegated connector)

  • MyAthens+

  • Error messages

  • Ideas Portal

  • Admin interface

Ideally, the key default interfaces like 'admin', 'error messages' and 'authentication point' should be translated based on the user's browser locale (or a preference set in OpenAthens admin).

Alternatively, it should be possible for admins to 'localize' end user facing UIs by modifying the default English text. This solution would work for multiple use cases, including English-speaking libraries who wish to customize the text, not just translate it.

Allowing library admins (and users) to see dates in their local date format AND time zone would help reduce confusion with things like 'account expiration' emails where the date displays in UTC format for all users globally.

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? Yes
Idea type Ease of use of specific or groups of tasks/actions, Improves value of OpenAthens to my team/organization, Clarity and comprehension of OpenAthens language and instructions
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