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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 Aug 12, 2026

In OpenAthens admin, make the search find and differentiate allocated and not allocated federated resources rather than having to click before searching. Also, color code in a sensible manner that meets with some universal standard if you're going to at all. Green for "not allocated" is confusing.

Under resources, the search for federated resource cards is frustrating. It should just search everything and sort allocated/not allocated. I find it very confusing that "not allocated" is color coded green. Find some better way to differentiate in a sorted list. I spend too much time on extra clicks in this interface and it would be helpful to have an improved UX

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? Yes
Idea type Clarity and comprehension of OpenAthens language and instructions, Something to improve
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