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.

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Status Feedback wanted
Workspace Librarians
Categories Reporting
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 16, 2025

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To implement a third-level breakdown in reporting as the current OpenAthens reports only offer a two-level resource breakdown, which limits the depth of analysis.

We require a consolidated report that includes Resource Name, Username, PG Code, and Usage Count, based on unique users, for analysis.

Currently, there is no overlap between the reports that would allow for an XLOOKUP to merge PG Code or Username.

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Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? Yes
Idea type Decision aid/blocker
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  • Guest
    Jun 23, 2025

    I support this idea. It would help with questions we get from administration about resource utilization by user.

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