OpenAthens Ideas Board

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 board 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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Video for students

create a video for students about what OA is and how to use it
7 days ago in Librarians / Accessing resources 1 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.
16 days ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Timestamps reflecting local time zone

It would be helpful to have timestamps in the admin dashboard reflect the institution's local time zone, rather than automatically deferring to GMT.
23 days ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

End-to-end APIs for application management

I would like for OpenAthens to publish a suite of APIs that I can hook-up to my internal systems so that I do not have to visit OpenAthens' service provider dashboard to performs actions such as; setting up new federated connections enabling feder...
22 days ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration / Supporting other federations 0 Feedback wanted

Publish the metadata for all of my 1:1 connections in a private XML file

I would like to be able to get a feed of the metadata for all of my 1:1 connections so that I can populate my back end system(s) with organization information for authorization and/or populating my discovery service. This feed must only be visible...
22 days ago in Publishers / Keystone configuration / Org discovery (Wayfinder) 0 Feedback wanted

Ability to reject self-registration requests

It would be helpful if libraries could reject registration requests generated via their self-registration page, as this would save time during the account creation and activation process.
23 days ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Download graphs as PDFs

It would be helpful if librarians could download graphs in the reporting module as PDFs, as this would save time when sharing usage reports with management during the subscription renewal period.
23 days ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Have OpenAthens' SP reporting data report on unique users

The reports tell me the quantity of transfers to my products from a particular organization, in a given timeframe, but not how many unique users these transfers equate to; is it 100 people transferring once each, or 1 person transferring 100 times?
27 days ago in Publishers / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Make OpenAthens' aggregated SP reporting data available via an API

I already use internal dashboards to consume external data sources. I would like to be able to add OpenAthens Federation reporting data to those dashboards.
27 days ago in Publishers / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Reporting data

Need better granularity of resource access data to help us determine subscription renewals.
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted