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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Status Rejected
Workspace Librarians
Categories * Other
Created by Guest
Created on May 14, 2025

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Stop renaming the product

Compass. Really? WHY?

It's bad enough that the product went from Athens to OpenAthens, and now ours users think this means everything is free (because it sounds just like open access, yanno). That transition was hard enough, and some days I still call it Athens for convenience. Now I have to call it Compass? Never. Gonna. Happen. Just stop it.

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? No
Idea type Other
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    Isobel Demangeat
    May 19, 2025

    Just to clarify; We’ve given our flagship product for libraries its own identity: OpenAthens Compass.

    OpenAthens as an organization has two products for publishers; OpenAthens Keystone and OpenAthens Federation, and a product for libraries that was called OpenAthens, which is now OpenAthens Compass. This change will allow us to prepare for future growth when our portfolio expands and increase clarity – clearly we have room to improve here!


    The new OpenAthens Compass name helps us better organize our offerings, improve product recognition, and simplify our messaging, all while keeping the user experience the same. So, I would like to reassure everyone that there is nothing you will need to do, and you will see no changes to the product, aside from the logo update on the dashboard.

    You can take a look at our blog, where we explain this more in detail, take a look at our refreshed website (where you might find some more hints) and you are more than welcome to join our upcoming webinar.


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