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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.

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

Status Feedback wanted
Workspace Librarians
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 28, 2026

Notifications when critical updates are required (SSL, Squid, No Connection)

Currently, OpenAthens relies heavily on e-mail notifications for critical updates, and in sophisticated or consortial configuration, there are issues that may be missed at scale. It would be helpful if any critical item was flagged with a notification at login. in both the consortial and institutional configuration. Examples include SSL certificate updates for both IdP connections and custom SAML connections. It would also be extremely helpful to libraries or consortia using a squid proxy server if there was a notification when squid isn't functioning properly and OpenAthens admin is not receiving the proxy IP(s). The only way to know is if there is an error in the proxy IP info in the "Organization" area. A pop up notification in the consortial or institutional login area and that can be seen in either would be most helpful and save diagnostic time when issues arise.

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