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Allow repository staff to send canned responses
Allow customers the ability to create and store canned messages that can be used when communicating with researchers. Esploro already offers the ability to create custom return reasons that can be selected when returning a deposit. But this feature would be even more useful if selecting of one of those reasons also sent customizable canned message that could be used to provide further instruction to the researcher on how to modify and resubmit their deposit. It would be useful to have a set of canned messages that could be used when approving a deposit to notify the researcher if any…
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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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Add Thesis dc Field to OAI Output
Add the <dc:type>Thesis</type> to identify theses.
Theses are frequently searched for by our Research Repository users and this would make them more discoverable.
Thank you
Keely Chapman
RMIT University Library2 votes
AdminTami Ezra
(Admin, Ex Libris)
responded
Removing the "accepted" status so that institution can continue voting as agreed with the PWG.
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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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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…
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Auto Assignment for Asset Types
We have regularities in terms of which colleague checks which type of assets. It would be nice if I could automatically add the assginment to the asset type for these people. otherwise, as admin, I always have to check first and then end up assigning the same colleagues again anyway.
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Ability to bulk download files from asset record
We have some assets, especially datasets, that have a large number of files attached. It would be very handy if it was possible for a user to bulk download all (or selected) files rather than having to download them individually.
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Configure Time Delay of Letter Delivery
Similar to scheduling the time of an email in Outlook (see attachment), permit the Esploro letters administrator to set a time delay for when letters are sent.
Our use case is as follows:
When we enter new theses, it can take up to 15 minutes for them to be available via the public portal after record 'Approval'. If enabled, a Deposit Status Update Letter is sent to the author immediately on 'Approval'. If the author opens up their letter straight away, they are presented with a dead link. We have disabled the Deposit Status Update Letter as a result.
If…1 vote -
Ability to update affiliation of researchers attached to a grant
When adding a researcher to a grant you are not able to update their affiliation.
Assuming Esploro will be developed to show collaboration in grants, it will be necessary to have the correct affiliation showing for the researchers attached to a grant, similar to the affiliation for researchers attached to an asset.1 vote -
Esploro - Metadata Embargoes for Existing ETDs
Dear Team,
The RMIT Research Repository team regularly receives advice from the School of Graduate Research that an embargo has been approved for an ETD that is already available open access via the Research Repository.
ETDs affected are:
ETD Doctorate (we've labelled this Doctor of Philosophy (PhD))
ETD Doctorate (we've labelled this Professional Doctorate)
ETD Graduate (we've labelled this Masters by Research)There would commonly be around 20 of these per year with numbers expected to increase over the next few years. They occur when thesis authors request a temporary embargo due to contractual obligations with publishers and/or partner organisations,…
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The 'Pages' field should appear in all asset types
Hi,
The "Pages" field appears only in some of the asset types. It should appear in all of them.Maya Amichal
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pop-up notification when communicating with researchers about an asset
When communicating with researchers about an asset, staff members must open the asset record, navigate to the communication tab, enter their message, and click "Send." However, their message is not actually sent to the researcher until the asset record is saved. This is not particularly intuitive, especially because the message appears as a new line in the communication history with the date sent and name of recipient. In order to make this step clearer, we recommend adding a hint or pop-up notification letting staff know the asset record must be saved in order for the message to be sent.
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Ability to reorder fields with multiple lines via drag and drop in back end and on profile
We would like to see drag and drop functionality implemented across all fields in both the repository and the portal that have mutlitple lines, e.g. relationaships on assets so that relationships can be displayed in desired order. Links on the profile page. Education. Research topics and keywords. Related content on the asset.
Currently many of theses fields display in the order they are entered and some display in a random undetermined order. If links need to be reordered they have to be deleted and re-added. This is a duplciaiton of effort.
1 voteAdminTami Ezra
(Admin, Ex Libris)
responded
As has been noted drag and drop is available in many places. We have no immediate plans to add more. Removing the Planned status so institutions can continue voting for this. Please indicate where it is most missing.
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Plain Language Summary
To help make research more accessible, some publishers have begun to add a 'Plan Language Summary' of articles after the abstract to explain the ideas in the article is a less technical way. Would it be possible for Esploro to have a field after Abstract called Plain Language Summary which uses AI to create the summary from the information entered into the Abstract field and which could be displayed on the asset record in the portal?
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Duplicate check process for ETD workflow
For standard asset types in Esploro (such as journal articles, books, conference papers, etc.), the system does perform a duplicate check during the deposit process by checking titles but this behaviour doesn't apply in the ETD depsoit workflow. Can this duplicate check based on title be added to the ETD deposit workflow to avoid any potential for duplicate records to be added for theses?
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The organization sub-unit should be searchable by Alternative Names
This functionality is already planned.
0 votesAdminTami Ezra
(Admin, Ex Libris)
responded
Removed the "Planned" status because although this is still on our longer-term roadmap, there isn't a definite timeline.
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