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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 Jan 9, 2025

The ability to assign on-prem IP ranges to permission sets

We have our system configured to allow access to resources without authentication if the user is on a pair of recognized, on-prem, IP ranges. This works for most resources; however we have a few resources that are restricted to one IP range only. Currently if a user tries to access a resource from the non-approved IP range, they are given a non-authorized message because their IP address is one of the on-prem IPs but not the right one. They would be allowed to access the resource if they login with the proper credentials and were assigned the proper permission set. If our permission sets could be assigned an IP range when appropriate, then we could require authentication when user tries to access from the non-authorized IP range.

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? Yes
Idea type Day-to-day tasks/actions improvements
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