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Ability to delete "researchers" in bulk
Currently, removing the "Researcher" flag or deleting a researcher, we need to search for the person in Manage researchers; click on the three dots on the right side; and then select Delete. There is no way to select several names and then delete them; or run a job to delete them.
The functionality of making someone "unaffiliated/previously affiliated" is not the appropriate solution due to the way that we are ingesting "researchers".
All university staff is pushed into Alma flagging them all automatically as a researchers resulting in having many "false" researchers.
Hence, I'm proposing to have a functionality that…
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Display Project Type of ETDs more prominently
Project types of ETDs are very useful to make it clear when the final output of a student's educational career is something other than an ETD that went through our Graduate College. We have projects for Doctor of Nursing Practice, Education Doctorate Dissertation in Practice, and Doctor of Physical Therapy Case Reports. We also have very old bachelors theses, when the bachelors was a terminal degree in the discipline, but we also have Honors theses which are recent in the same disciplines. We would like the project type to display just as prominently as the subtype now does. see https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/929326-esploro/suggestions/49488992-make-subtype-display-more-prominently
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Automatic update for forthcoming article with the published date
Hi, would it be possible to have a job that automatically update the asset information once the journal article is published either by using the metadata from the DOI or from WOS Identifier? For example, to add the published date alonside the first online date, and fill in the volume and issue, as well as the pages number?
Updating the forthcoming manually is quite tedious, and I believe that it wouldn't be too difficult to automate it, as the information exists in the DOI's metadata (publish print / publish online date part)
Thanks!
5 votes -
Include records with external links in the Esploro scope for Primo VE
A new custom local data scope (Available Research – with inventory only) was introduced in the July 2025 Esploro release. This provides flexibility to add the scope in with other scopes (Alma, Digital, CDI etc.) to create a blended search profile.
This is a great addition, but we have found that the new custom local data scope only includes Esploro records which have files attached or that have a link with either institutional or null link ownership. Most of the links in our Esploro records have external link ownership and we would like them to be included in an Esploro…
6 votes -
Clickable DOI link on deposit records
For deposit records awaiting processing (either through user deposit or Smart Harvesting), would it be possible for the DOI on the record to be a clickable link so that staff can check the published version quickly before claiming the record and working on it?
7 votes -
Open Access funder policy compliance checker
Are there plans for Esploro to have a compliance checker where we can set the criteria of funder open access policies (such as the UKRI one: https://www.ukri.org/publications/ukri-open-access-policy/uk-research-and-innovation-open-access-policy/) and measure the compliance of our assets within the repository?
3 votes -
batch revise author role
We had a request to create a report identifying corresponding authors. We do not have this data in Esploro. We may be able to get this data, but we have no way to alter author roles in multiple assets in an efficient manner. As CREDIT and other uses of roles in an asset become more important for our faculty members and departments, having a way to add this information in an efficient manner would be very helpful
4 votes -
ORCID Integration - Push to ORCID in Asset
The current Esploro ORCID integration allows a Delete from ORCID option associated with an asset that runs immediately. Could we have the same option but to push the asset to ORCID?
4 votes -
Option to sort collections by date
We would like the option to set the default sort for collections to be by date. Relevance is not useful for collections because they are a preselected group of materials; there is not yet a search for which relevance applies. We often use collections to highlight new content so it would be helpful if we could have new content at the top of the results by default so users do not need to change the sort order.
13 votes -
Impact Idea 4: Audit Trail for Project Edits
Implement an audit trail to track edits and deletions for Projects. This feature will enhance accountability and ensure that all changes are documented, helping to prevent unauthorized modifications or deletions by 'team members' leaving the university under less favorable conditions. It will also support teamwork by addressing trust issues in collaborative environments.
7 votes -
Esploro - sword - Deposits - Integrate a Normalization Process based on a Normalization rule
We manged to create an integration profile for using SWORD to deposit assets from our CRIS to Esploro (
https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/esploro/integrations/sword/ ).
We would like however to manipulate/normalize imported values we are importing, as we are used to do with Alma imports, where we can we create a Normalization Rule (NR), integrate it in a process and use it in an Import profile.
In Esploro we have NR, we have Processes, but still there is no way to integrate the process in the Sword integration profile / import process.
Please add the feature for addin a Normalization Process to the SWORD…10 votes -
Esploro - Primo VE - display the physical inventory for the Esploro records
Primo as discovery tool used to display physical inventory also for bib records originally related to electronic resources, using ISSN or ISBN as matching key. This makes sense and is consistent with the idea of discovery tool.
Surprisingly, this does not work with Primo VE and Esploro records.
If an Esploro record has a an ISBN matching a Physical Title in Alma, there is no GetIt tab allowing to place a request.
Please display instead the physical inventory for the Esploro records as well.27 votes -
Esploro - Backend BE - add advanced search field for Asset Date Submitted and Asset Date Updated
When reviewing in Esploro Back-end assets before approving and publishing them, we often need to look for Assets created or last updated on certain date.
This is not possible right now, since Date Created field is related to the publication, not the Esploro Asset. Analytics has a 24 hours delay and is not as flexible as the search.
Please index and allow to perform an advanced search also on Asset Date Created and Asset Date Updated fields.Esploro - Backend BE - add advanced search field for Asset Date Submitted and Asset Date Updated
22 votes -
Expand asset type options for student deposit profile
For non-ETDs, there are limited options of asset types for Student Deposit Profiles - see image. There is no ability to create a form for a journal article. However, our students frequently publish and deposit journal articles. This will force to either do a manual mediated deposit for them, or they will need to ask a co-author to deposit for them. Please can you expand the asset types available for a student deposit form to allow for deposits of journal articles, reports etc. Thanks
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Improve functionality of ETD Degree Names table
Issue 1: Currently, ETD degree names must be manually entered individually into the table. There is no facility to upload a spreadsheet to populate the table. When repositories need to account for all relevant current degrees as well as past degrees for earlier theses uploaded, this list can be very long - we had 100.
Solution: allow for spreadsheet upload to populate table.Issue 2: There is no apparent way to control where a new degree is added in the list. It does not add to the end of the current list, it is not alphabetical, it seems to insert…
5 votes -
Default search results to full text/open access
The primary mission of our institutional repository is to support our university's open access policy by providing free, public access to institutional research and scholarship. Accordingly, our institution stipulates that all affiliated researchers deposit a copy of their accepted manuscript in the repository at the time of its acceptance for publication. Apart from self deposit, Esploro offers a variety of other ways for ingesting research outputs including smart harvesting and smart expansion. While these tools offer useful ways to grow the repository, they also tend to allow for the proliferation of metadata-only records (asset records without files).
In order to…
2 votes -
Ability to bulk update name variant
Currently, it's possible to update the name variant for each individual assets.
However, it's not possible to update the name variant in various assets at the same time.
We have had several cases where we need to change the name variant for around 100 or even 200 assets.
So it's a time-consuming process opening each assets and change the name variant.
17 votes -
Add asset type Blog post as a type of Publication
We need an asset type Blog post to appear under Publications. These are not entire blogs. These are not interactive resources. They are a type of publication. We currently use asset type Other with a subtype Blog Post, but this means the items are not integrated with other publications on a researcher's profile.
We had hoped to deal with this through a 2023 roadmap item "Local Management of Asset Types and Categories" but it appears this will not be happening.
Note also a request for an image asset type - https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/929326-esploro/suggestions/47430887-image-asset-type
5 votes -
Ability to merge multiple researchers from the manage researchers page
It would be helpful to have an option to merge multiple duplicate researchers at once from the manage researchers page, rather than relying solely on the bulk merge duplicate researchers report. Many times we need to look at the assets themselves to determine if the researchers are indeed identical.
8 votes -
Adding select all to manage creators on an asset
It would be helpful if we had an option to select all researchers when we Manage Asset Creators. For assets with numerous authors to fix, this would be easier than needing to select each person individually.
16 votes
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