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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Librarians

    Introduce Granular Dashboard Roles and Permissions

    Currently, dashboard access is limited to a small number of high-level roles, with administrators having full access to all functions. This creates a challenge when staff require visibility into dashboard information but should not be granted admi...
    14 days ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted

    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

    Customizable authentication page branding (HTML editor - more flexible CSS branding)

    Provide more flexible out-of-the-box branding customization for the authentication point (similar to EZProxy), ideally via a HTML editor or support for uploaded CSS/HTML files. At a minimum, libraries should be able to replace all the English text...
    5 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Documentation / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 3 Feedback wanted

    Configurable html message or external link for resource not configured error. Option for notification

    When you used the OpenAthens redirector on a resource that's not configured and active an error page is displayed to the patron. this message / page can't currently be modified. It would be nice that we could add details and links to external syst...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Org information 6 Research & discovery

    Allow sub orgs their own logo

    Please allow sub orgs to have their own logo. Our partner organisations are many and varied, and are not always under our direct umbrella. Having our logo display in some instances is misleading.
    3 months ago in Librarians / Org information 0 Feedback wanted

    Managing credentials for non-compatible resources within OpenAthens

    With a large number of platforms and resources that remain incompatible with OpenAthens, managing their credentials separately in external systems has become an increasingly complex and time-consuming task for organizations. Given OpenAthens' role...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Proxy 8 Research & discovery

    Ability to copy existing permission set

    USE CASE:We sometimes need to ‘duplicate’ a permission set when established clients need to change group/statistics OR purchases a new resource that needs to be 'limited' to a new group. CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY:There is no ‘duplicate this permission...
    6 months ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

    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...
    29 days ago in Librarians / Library/web portal / MyAthens / Resource catalogue 0 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...
    29 days ago in Librarians / Resource catalogue / Search and navigation 0 Feedback wanted

    Improve support for DOI links within the OpenAthens Redirector

    We have been having issues linking to content from Sage vis the OpenAthens Redirector. This is due to the OpenAthens Redirector not honouring the URL registered against the DOI reference (e.g. As an example you can use the Crossref API to look at ...
    over 1 year ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / Redirector 3 Research & discovery