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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User accounts and permission sets

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    Ability to obtain eduPersonTargetedIDs for users

    OpenAthens generates a unique eduPersonTargetedID value for each user. That attribute is frequently used to create personal user accounts with SAML-based SPs. It's how SPs remember the user on subsequent logins so they can pair them with their sav...
    about 2 months ago in Librarians / Attribute release / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    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...
    about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Resource catalogue / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Report for who created accounts especially self-registrations

    Our library recently implemented self-registration. We would enjoy being able to easily and accurately report from within OpenAthens how many accounts were created by Self-Registration. It would also be useful to know how many accounts were create...
    2 months ago in Librarians / Reporting / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    More help for users with multiple accounts

    Please make it easier to have multiple accounts. i.e. student at 2 institutions with 2 OpenAthens accounts gets locked out regularly from one or the other
    3 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    Removal of the Default Permission Set requires customer approval before proceeding.

    If a permission set were to be accidentally deleted, it could lead to the loss of access to all associated resources. To help prevent this, it would be beneficial to require Library Administrator approval before any permission set is permanently d...
    7 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Request to make First Name and Last Name non-mandatory for Bulk Upload

    Currently, when we bulk upload personal accounts in the OpenAthens admin, both First Name and Last Name are mandatory. In some cases, it is difficult to export users' forenames and surnames separately. If either First Name or Last Name (or both...
    9 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 4 Research & discovery

    MyAthens URL with embedded Access Account logins

    We are looking for a MyAthens access URL that includes the username and password embedded into it. This access URL would be shared with users that are on-site using the Access Account(the MD account that requires you to be on a registered IP). Thi...
    9 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Library/web portal / MyAthens / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Please give option to 'reset my password' on admin.openathens.net

    On admin.openathens.net, there is no option to reset my password. This results in delays, and less usage of the product.
    9 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery

    Finding accounts without allocated permissions

    It would be valuable to be able to filter for accounts without an allocated permission set, or to run a report to generate a list of accounts without an allocated permission set. We use a local connection to Okta for our accounts but occasionally ...
    10 months ago in Librarians / Search and navigation / User accounts and permission sets 0 Research & discovery

    Add a column setting for “Last Sign In”

    "Add a 'Last Sign In' column for managed accounts in the users/accounts list, displayed in both the admin interface and the exported file, mirroring the functionality available for local accounts.
    11 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 1 Research & discovery