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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    Complete revamp of "Compatible Resources" Page and Info: Include comprehensive vendor list and detailed instructions on how all supported vendors are to be set up.

    The comprehensive list should live inside of OpenAthens admin, but it should also be publicly available, replacing the unclear, low information entries now seen in the compatible providers list. The listing/database should contain information incl...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Reporting / Resource catalogue / Supporting other federations 6 Research & discovery

    Ability to specify signing algorithm for custom SAML resources

    Service providers sometimes require signatures to use a specific algorithm, like SHA-256, for custom SAML connections. Currently, if the signing algorithm is not explicitely specified in the SP metadata within a signature block, OpenAthens will de...
    4 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources 1 Feedback wanted

    Add a 'Notes' field to the Resource Details page in OpenAthens Admin

    The notes field would be a place to record any history for that particular resource such as changes made to the URL which could be useful for admins when troubleshooting future problems. This field should not be changed/cleared when using the Reve...
    about 2 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Resource catalogue 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.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting 2 Research & discovery

    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 impleme...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators 8 Feedback wanted

    Keep a change log for allocated resources in the catalogue

    Currently in the resources catalogue, there is very little information available to an institution outside of the resource details. It would be really helpful to have an additional tab on each resource where the system records any changes applied ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Resource catalogue 3 Research & discovery

    Provide a link from the Reports dashboard back to the Admin dashboard

    In the Admin dashboard I often click Statistics > Reporting to get to the reporting dashboard. But I haven't found a way to get back to the Admin dashboard. Please either provide a link back to the main Admin dashboard, or in the Admin menu, op...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Overall usability  / Search and navigation 2 Research & discovery

    OpenAthens customise error message

    Hi, We have realised we have the opportunity to customise our OpenAthens error message. This message is the one that appears whenever someone tries to access a resource they don't have access to, for various reasons. However, the way we can do thi...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted

    Resource Catalog Export with Direct URLs

    Allow allocated resources to be exported with direct URLs.
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue 2 Feedback wanted

    Ability to apply IP authentication to OpenAthens admin login in addition to username/password

    Currently, login to the OpenAthens admin portal is available via username and password only. The customer would like the option to add IP authentication as an additional security measure. This way, even if the username and password are compromised...
    about 1 year ago in Librarians / Administrators 2 Feedback wanted