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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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...
2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy 4 Research & discovery

Request to make First Name and Last Name non-mandatory for Bulk Upload

Currently, when we bulk upload personal accounts in the OpenAthens admin, both First Name and Last Name are mandatory. In some cases, it is difficult to export users' forenames and surnames separately. If either First Name or Last Name (or both...
28 days ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 2 Feedback wanted

Keep a change log for allocated resources in the catalogue

Currently in the resources catalogue, there is very little information available to an institution outside of the resource details. It would be really helpful to have an additional tab on each resource where the system records any changes applied ...
3 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Resource catalogue 0 Feedback wanted

'Read-only' administrator access for reporting.

'Read-only' view of the OpenAthens reports. To be in the form of a new administrator 'role'. There are often stakeholders at organisations who need/want access to the reports, but who should not have access to the rest of the admin dashboard.
5 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting 2 Research & discovery

Admin Activity Log for OpenAthens

I would like to request an enhancement to the OpenAthens admin interface to include a log history of administrative modifications. Currently, the system does not provide a detailed audit trail of changes made by admin accounts. Default permission ...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / * Other 1 Feedback wanted

Support multiple language (including Japanese) for Report with Managed Directory customers

Please kindly consider to support multiple languages (including Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, Thai, etc) officially in Report function with Managed Directory customers. Currently only English is supported with this. If multiple languages c...
11 days ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Timestamps reflecting local time zone

It would be helpful to have timestamps in the admin dashboard reflect the institution's local time zone, rather than automatically deferring to GMT.
5 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / Reporting 0 Research & discovery

Allow restricted mode on a per resource basis (with permissive mode enabled)

I have a request to restrict access to certain specific resources to certain groups of our users. OpenAthens allows for either:Restrictive mode - Each and every resource is allocated based on Permission sets.Permissive Mode - Everyone can access E...
4 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Feedback wanted

Reporting data

Need better granularity of resource access data to help us determine subscription renewals.
7 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 3 Research & discovery

See more than just one year's usage at a time in Reports

In Reports > Data explorer > Resources > Usage, you can only see one year's worth of usage at a time. If you want more than just one year's usage, you have to update the start and end dates, download the report, update the start and end d...
13 days ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted