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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Resource catalogue

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 Research & discovery

Allow Resource Status notifications to be limited to resources allocated to an institution's OpenAthens catalogue

As an OpenAthens administrator, I would like Resource Status notifications to be limited to resources allocated to my organisation's OpenAthens catalogue, so that I only receive alerts relevant to my library and its users. Many libraries subscribe...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Resource catalogue Feedback wanted

In OpenAthens admin, make the search find and differentiate allocated and not allocated federated resources rather than having to click before searching. Also, color code in a sensible manner that meets with some universal standard if you're going to at all. Green for "not allocated" is confusing.

Under resources, the search for federated resource cards is frustrating. It should just search everything and sort allocated/not allocated. I find it very confusing that "not allocated" is color coded green. Find some better way to differentiate i...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue / Search and navigation 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 Research & discovery

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...
4 months ago in Librarians / Activating resources / Resource catalogue 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 Feedback wanted

notification any time a new resource gets added to Compatible Providers search

It would be great to have a way to get a notification any time a new resource gets added or updated in the Compatible Providers search. I want to know when new cards are added so I can proactively see if I need to allocate them. https://www.openat...
over 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue Feedback wanted

Allocate a list of resources via file upload

While it would be great to export a list of resources currently allocated to a Permission Set (see IDP-I-45), it would also help if we could do the reverse and allocate resources by way of a file upload (such as .CSV). Then we could basically "cop...
11 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Resource catalogue / User accounts and permission sets Research & discovery

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 Else...
over 1 year ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue Feedback wanted

Automatically sort users in Accounts > List by Last Signed In

The default sorting method for local authentication connectors in Accounts > List doesn't seem to follow any particular pattern. Instead, could the list automatically start with the most recent users sorted to the top?
10 months ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue / User accounts and permission sets Research & discovery