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Allow multiple urls to Esploro
Esploro can perform multiple functions including faculty profiles, institutional repository, and managing ETD submissions. These functions are distinct and descriptive urls are needed to help user communication. A couple of cases:
Faculty: A faculty member has created a profile for public access. The url of facultyprofile.univ.edu would be appropriate and helpful
Graduate student: A person has completed their thesis and needs to submit. The submission also needs to go through an approval process. In this case submit-etd.univ.edu or similar would be appropriate and helpful.
Researcher: An external researcher wants to view the university created assets. In this case ir.univ.edu would…
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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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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.
8 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?
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Display ORCID in asset details
Please provide the option to display and link to each creator's ORCID in the Details section of the asset page when it is present in the record. This is standard practice on many publisher websites.
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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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Assign Smart Harvesting records
Can Smart Harvesting records be assigned to users automatically in the same way deposit records are automatically assigned?
2 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…
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Cover images for metadata only items
We would like a way to have a thumbnail/cover image associated with a metadata only item, particularly a book. We would want the cover to display in a collection like this https://iro.uiowa.edu/esploro/search/collections/Recent-Books-by-UI-Authors/Books?institution=01IOWA_INST to make it look more engaging. The image should as display on a profile, and it should be part of the import to Primo so that it displays there as well. The cover needs to be marked in some way as a cover image so it does not appear to be something with full text available; a cover image should NOT make the asset be flagged as OA.…
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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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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.
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Harvest Media Mentions from Altmetric
Media Mentions are an excellent way to showcase the impact of our university’s research, but we haven’t made use of this functionality because we don’t have the staff time to find and enter this information one by one. But there are sources for this data, like Altmetric. Esploro already displays Altmetric scores, badges, and details at the research asset level. Altmetric tracks each mention of a research output by news outlets (for example: https://dimensions.altmetric.com/details/49291201/news). If Altmetric news outlet mentions could be harvested by Esploro as Media Mentions, it would greatly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of this functionality. As…
8 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
8 votes -
Show SDGs as a facet
The information on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the assets in Esploro has enormous potential. We would love to be able to have the SDGs as a facet, since that way users can filter outputs towards their aims. Since the information is already in the asset, we think it could be an easy gain for ExLibris to enable the faceting of this info.
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Send ETD notifications to faculty
Currently when ETDs are published, faculty members who participated as advisors or committee members on the manuscript are listed in the contributors section, and it appears to be linked to their researcher profile. However, despite the manuscript being connected to said faculty members, they are not notified of the addition when the ETD is published and only the student is notified. We have some faculty members who would like to keep track of the manuscripts they have been on an advisory committee for, but there is currently no front end way. Add a feature to send notifications to faculty members…
10 votes -
Improve Open Access badge logic for assets
Problem: OA badges appear on assets even when neither the asset nor a file or link is designated as OA. This misrepresents the meaning of OA to simply mean “free to read,” and may be incorrectly applied to works to which the creator reserves rights and are not true OA as understood in the community.
Solution: Change the logic as follows:
- An asset should have the OA badge only if a file or link is explicitly affirmed as Open Access, or if the asset itself is declared Open Access.
- Files or links with no value (blank) under access restrictions should…
15 votes -
Statistics section on Esploro Research Portal for subunits
With the new Esploro organizational tree is now possible to display also on subunit webpages the statistics section with metrics related to downloads and views of Esploro records.
In case of organizations with 3 levels (for example in a multi-institution repository where every single institution has itself faculties or institutes as subunits) the metrics are correctly displayed at the parent and at the last sub-unit level, but the middle levels doesn’t display the sum of their sub-units.
In the described scenario this would help to highlight the impact of the research of the single participating institutions.25 votes -
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.
4 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 -
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
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