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Controlled vocabularies and metadata field limits
To aid in the discovery of both researchers and assets, it would be great if the following functionality were available:
- Ability to limit keywords/research topics at the researcher level
- Ability to limit the length of the describe your research section of the profile
- Availability of more controlled vocabularies - preferably not LCSH, but a blend of subject-specific vocabularies (MeSH, Inspec, MLA, etc. -- maybe even the controlled vocabularies from the old CSA indexes given how good they are for the social sciences)
- Ability to limit keywords to just items from controlled vocabularies
We had an extensive discussion today with a…
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Add preferred pronoun field
Allow a researcher to add a preferred pronoun to their researcher record that will be displayed in the researcher profile.
26 votes -
Citation only display on profile brief results
Currently, the citation display on the Researcher Profiles includes the first several lines of the abstract. We would like to list via citation only and exclude the abstract from the brief results. This can be done in the portal but is not available from the profiles assets display. We feel that this would look tidier and reduce the need to scroll down the page as much.
4 votes -
Ability for researchers to show/hide details in the Communication section of their profile
Our researcher contact details are imported daily and we are finding some researchers add other email, phone and address details via their profile and would rather the alternate contact details be displayed.
We would like a button next to each entry in the Communication section so researchers can decide which to make visible, similar to the toggle visible/hidden icon available in the Affiliations section.
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Selecting a license in self-deposit
Selecting a license is not intuitive on the self-deposit form. You have to click the three dots next to the file after it’s been uploaded, then select the license. This is too bothersome for the researcher, so she's not selecting a license. We can leave this blank for most items, but it's very important for anything we're registering with CrossRef or DataCite, so it requires follow-up with the researcher. It would be better if the form prompted the researcher to select a license (or not).
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Add link to Leganto and other resources on Esploro Researcher Profile
Since researchers at universities also carry out teaching activities, it would be great to add to the Esploro Researcher Profile a link to the Leganto courses.
Having the ability to add this and further links to other resources (cv, LMS courses, timetables, personal webpages etc.) would increase the acceptance of the researcher profiles as researcher institutional page within the university.34 votesDear Colleagues,
This item is not planned for 2023 but I am keeping it open here for more votes and future reference.
We will let you know if there will be any updates.
BR
Na'ama
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Add credentials and licensure fields to researcher web profiles
Our healthcare clinicians and have their medical license information and board certifications display on their academic profiles. We would like to be able to display this information in the researcher profiles as well. We would want the researcher or their delegates to maintain and enter this information, as it is not part of our central directory.
Examples: https://medicine.uiowa.edu/internalmedicine/profile/christina-charis-donelson
https://medicine.uiowa.edu/neurology/profile/daniel-tranel
https://uihc.org/kimberly-leman
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Add ability for researcher approval before assets post to individual profiles
We have researchers who publish in areas which can be controversial such as animal research or abortion.
These researchers do not display all of their publications on their web profiles.
We would like the ability to set individual researchers so each asset had to be approved by the researcher before it displayed in their individual research portal.
We realize researchers can hide information, but we want to ensure that some information is not published to web profiles without approval.
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Add ability to embed video in Esploro content areas.
At the moment, iframes (embedded video players) are not supported in Esploro. Embedded video might include content relevant to research profiles, projects, grants, and other areas where videos are already hosted elsewhere (e.g. youtube). This would enhance researcher profile records, and allow the ability to include more engaging content. Please consider including this functionality in all relevant areas, specifically descriptions, summaries, etc.
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