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OpenAthens Ideas Portal

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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
Categories Resource catalogue
Created by Guest
Created on May 5, 2025

Improve readability of domains in Link Format field

The Link Format field of each resource contains a URL that is applied to one or more web domains for that publisher. The domains appear only in a popup box upon mousing over the text box containing the URL.

In many cases, such as the resource Elsevier Health Resources, the list of domains in the popup box is longer than will actually fit on the screen, and even zooming out in the browser does not allow you to read all of it. I have been looking through Elsevier Link Format fields to see if any of them include Cell Press, and can't establish a definitive answer because I can't see all the domains.

We need the ability to see all the domains applied to a Link Format field, and to search them. Please put the domains in a proper field of their own - ideally one subfield for each domain, for better readability and for sorting - rather than this popup box.

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? Yes
Idea type Ease of use of specific or groups of tasks/actions
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  • Guest
    May 20, 2025

    Another example for this is Oxford