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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Workspace Librarians
Categories Administrators
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 28, 2025

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Admin access via SSO for security purposes

For security purposes our company would require to access to the OpenAthens admin portal via SSO. We know that this feature is not available at the moment and that the access is only available via username and password. Are you planning to implement this feature in the next future? Many Thanks

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? No
Idea type Improves value of OpenAthens to my team/organization
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  • Guest
    Mar 2, 2026

    Our institution is pushing for SSO everywhere so we would support adding this to the roadmap.

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  • Guest
    Mar 2, 2026

    We would also support this, especially in ensuring our data is secure and access is controlled. 🙂

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  • Guest
    Feb 27, 2026

    Can I please add a +1 to this.
    Or introduce MFA for Admin access.

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  • Guest
    Sep 29, 2025

    Our institution is also moving to reduce non-SSO logins; implementing SSO for admin.openathens.net would be great!

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  • Guest
    Sep 22, 2025

    I agree, I'd like to see phishing-resistant MFA. FIDO / WebAuthn authentication. https://fidoalliance.org/

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  • Guest
    Sep 19, 2025

    We would also like to know if this is on the roadmap

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