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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We strongly support this suggestion as it would add a great deal of value to OpenAthens if we were able to see a breakdown of usage by department for individual databases provided by a particular supplier. We have some databases which are partly paid for by department(s) and at renewal time can get push-back to say they no longer wish to pay or say they are going to reduce their contribution. If we were able to advise how many of the logins to that database had been from their departments this would make it easier to agree a percentage contribution.
At the moment this isn't possible when we have multiple databases from the same supplier (e.g. Lexis+ and Nexis Uni from LexisNexis) as we just see usage across all of the Lexis databases.
Customer comment:
To provide breakdown of resource for EBSCO Information Services.
Current situation:
Resources are currently grouped under EBSCO Information Services. A more detailed breakdown is needed, with APA PsycArticles listed separately.
Required:
Reports should provide a detailed breakdown of resources instead of grouping all data under EBSCO Information Services.
Each resource should be listed individually, including the resource name, username, PG code, and total monthly usage per unique user.
Love it!
Yes: Each OpenAthens URL should have usage statistics associated with it. We have more than one product from Elsevier and having the stats just reference "Elsevier" is useless.
To be able to track database usage not just publisher/vendor usage. Each OpenAthens URL should have its own tracking code for statistics.