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.

Just sign in with your email to share your thoughts or vote for ideas you like—it'll help them get noticed!


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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Administrators

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Read only view of Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings for Administrators

Currently OAMD allows two types of Admin Roles in the platform, Administrator and Owner. Owner has enhanced access in that it can edit Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings. Administrators have no access to these areas at all, which...
11 days ago in Librarians / Administrators 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.
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Longer-lasting sessions/cookies

1. Make the "Access code" requrement take much longer to re-appear (months instead of weeks). Being required to wait for this code so often is disruptive to workflow. At least IP-validate on site like it once did. 2. Make the session times much lo...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 3 Feedback wanted

I would like to have a date field account created in the login section

in the login section there is a last login info, but no account created field, this could be helpful for BI statistics and other library operations
15 days ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted