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DataCite integration with research resources (equipment)
Esploro currently supports landing pages for research resources (such as equipment, instruments, and facilities), which is a great step toward improving visibility and discoverability. However, these resources are not yet integrated with Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) like DOIs, which are increasingly required under national and international PID strategies (e.g., Australia’s National PID Strategy).
Assigning DOIs to research resources ensures they are treated as research objects, enabling better tracking of usage, linking to related outputs and grants, and supporting reproducibility. DataCite provides a schema for minting DOIs for resources, but Esploro lacks a direct workflow for this integration.
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DataCite integration for Grants
Australia’s National Persistent Identifier (PID) Strategy — and similar strategies in other countries — emphasizes the importance of assigning DOIs to research grants and awards. This ensures grants are treated as research objects, improving transparency, discoverability, and linking between funding, outputs, and impact.
Currently, Esploro support DOIs for assets, but there is no streamlined workflow for minting DOIs for grants and creating grant landing pages. These landing pages would provide essential metadata (funder, award number, investigators, duration, amount, related outputs) and serve as the DOI target URL, aligning with DataCite requirements.
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Esploro to push Qualifications to ORCID profile
We would like Esploro-ORCID integration to push selected information in the "Education" section of their Researcher Profile into the "education and qualification section of the ORCID profile.
Currently, the integration only pushes assets and affiliations.
In our case, we give a certificate or badge to researchers upon completion of our Open Research Module.
We are able to expose that badge in the ORCID profile outside Esploro (an example of how the NASA exposed a badge can be seen https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3807-2892), but ideally we would like to push the badge via the repository.
See, for instance, Researcher Profile https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/profile/felix_pedrotti/overview?institution=44SUR_INST
In addition,…
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Scopus integration
Can an integration be developed with researcher's Scopus IDs (similar to the ORCID integration) to enable researchers to link their Scopus accounts with Esploro and allow publications listed on Scopus which are not in Esploro to be pulled through (and with any relevant SDG information)? Many researchers rely on data and publications lists on Scopus for their promotion attempts so it would be good if Esploro could integrate more with Scopus.
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SIS Loader Improvement - Handling Organizational Unit Affiliation
When loading and maintaining researcher using the SIS loader if a researcher being added/updated contains an internal organization affiliation that is not configured in Esploro, that researcher will not load/update. An error is is created.
This "idea" suggests that instead of an error being created in these cases, the researcher be assigned to a default internal organization that is configured by the site. A warning/exception would then be created in the SIS loader processing log stating the internal organization was not found, so the default internal organization was utilized instead.
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Provide Asset Update API Method
It would be useful in some circumstances to be able to Asset's via the API instead of manually through the administrative interface or the export, modify in Excel/CSV, and re-import.
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Ability to set a privacy flag in researcher profiles using APIs
Our university provides staff with the ability to set their contact details (work phone, email, office location) as public vs private in our HR system, which determines if these contact details are visible on public-facing applications and systems. These privacy settings do not currently flow through to Esploro. It is not currently possible to change visibility of contact details at an individual level in researcher profiles, either manually or via API. We would like to add the ability to use the Alma/Esploro APIs to set these privacy flags in Esploro Researcher Profiles as well, so that researchers contact details set…
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Ability to harvest full text files
The overarching goal of an institutional repository is to provide free public access to the research and creative output of the institution. Although Esploro offers institutions the ability to grow their repository by harvesting publication metadata from external sources, the imported metadata is of limited value without full text. We would like to see Esploro's smart harvesting capabilities extended by offering customers the option to match imported records with full text available from sources like Unpaywall. Using Unpaywall's API, it should conceivably be possible to identify Creative Commons licensed full text files, import them into the repository, and match them…
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Integration with Interfolio
One of our biggest hurdles to having comprehensive researcher profiles in Esploro is the aggravation researchers feel when they have to enter the same information into multiple different systems. We would like to eliminate that aggravation by integrating Esploro with Interfolio, so Interfolio could provide updates to researcher info.
3 votes
AdminAnonymous
(Admin, Ex Libris)
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OAI-PMH Support of Query Based Sets
When working with a OAI-PMH import profile you must select an existing record set provided from the OAI-PMH provider. Some providers, Datacite as an example, offer the ability to harvest a record set using a query[1] which is not included as a predefined record sets by the ListSets method. The OAI-PMH import profile should offer the ability to select a record set to harvest from a pre-defined list OR provide a record set name not in the list, a query in the case of Datacite.
[1]Bottom of this page: https://support.datacite.org/docs/datacite-oai-pmh
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Zotero - Esploro: can you make it work?
We recommend all our users to use Zotero as their reference management software. Its connector captures a lot of metadata from a vast variety of sources...but in Esploro it doesn't work. I dont see how we can encourage users to use this platform when at the moment of the research they will have to go get the metadata from another source or manually enter it. We would love to be able to use the Zotero connector when in Esploro to capture the metadata and the pdf if possible, of the item. Could you please take this idea into consideration? Thanks…
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"Update DOI Registration Agency - Research Assets" Job Improvements
The "Update DOI Registration Agency - Research Assets" job that runs daily does not provide detailed reporting. A detailed report of successfully updated, failed, and migrated assets would aid in troubleshooting and administration of the job.
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Expose Researcher Engagement types via API and Analytics
We wanted to start developing a Find a Supervisor page on our web site using the researcher API.
We have entered Principal Supervisor, Co-supervisor etc as engagement types in the backend. However there is no way to query this via the API or Analytics. Also to search the field you need to search the code not the description e.g. Engagement3 not Principal Supervisor.We would like to use the API to have a find a research supervisor page that will query the profiles for researcher interests and return only those reseachers that are approved as research supervisors. The search is…
9 votes
AdminTami Ezra
(Admin, Ex Libris)
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Removing the "accepted" status so that institution can continue voting as agreed with the PWG.
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Add OAI output in ETD-MS format
We would like to have an output in ETD-MS format so that we may continue to submit our ETDs to the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. White metadata may be submitted in oaidc OR oaidc+oaietdms, oaidc lacks many important fields for etds so our contributions to this global database would be better in etd-ms format. See http://www.ndltd.org/resources/manage-etds/help-build-global-etd-search and http://www.ndltd.org/standards/metadata
4 votesAdminAnonymous
(Admin, Ex Libris)
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