OpenAthens Ideas Portal

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  • 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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Status Research & discovery
Workspace Librarians
Categories Accessing resources Proxy
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 17, 2025

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Managing credentials for non-compatible resources within OpenAthens

With a large number of platforms and resources that remain incompatible with OpenAthens, managing their credentials separately in external systems has become an increasingly complex and time-consuming task for organizations. Given OpenAthens' role in streamlining authentication, having a centralized solution where both OpenAthens authentication and manual login credentials can be managed in one place would significantly reduce administrative overhead and improve efficiency. Supporting this capability within OpenAthens would create a more comprehensive authentication management system, benefiting institutions facing similar challenges.

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? Yes
Idea type Something new
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  • Guest
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    |     Feb 24, 2025

    We have a need for this as well. It would be great for a permissions based user/password sharing feature. Right now we have to host an internal app / workaround

  • Guest
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    |     Feb 18, 2025

    UCF is an OpenAthens customer, but our College of Medicine still uses EZproxy. Several of the CoM resources use U/P for authentication. Until OpenAthens can manage credentials, we will not be able to convince the CoM to migrate to OpenAthens.

  • Guest
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    |     Feb 17, 2025

    There is a definite need for Open Athens to support and allow for proxied URLs to carry unique information, attributes and passwords.

  • Guest
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    |     Feb 17, 2025

    A great need here. Many smaller companies can't support SSO and provide username and password access only. Having a secure and user friendly method of passing users to their databases would be ideal.