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Add DOI/No DOI as a Facet to Smart Harvest author matching
Articles with DOIs are easier to verify because you can click the DOI and review the published version of record.
We would like a "has DOI" and "NO DOI" facet because this would speed up Smart Harvest author matching, and potentially allow lower-level staff to review.
Staff could review "has DOI" matching and check the published version to verify affiliation. Records requiring more review or investigation could be left for higher-level staff.
7 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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Add ability to control thumbnail image and alt text
For assets that have multiple files uploaded, we would like to control which file/image is used for the thumbnail on the search results and assets page in Esploro. I have the following sample ETD where two JPG files are uploaded. I would like to use the image Collection.jpg as the thumbnail, but no matter what file name I use or what order I upload files in, the thumbnail continues to use the CollectionInvitation2.jpg file.
There should be a field that allows us to choose which file should be used for the thumbnail image. In addition, there is no Alt…
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Draft mediated deposits display in profile
Currently, drafts of mediated deposits do not display in researcher profiles. Complicated mediated deposits like datasets often go through several drafts before they are ultimately approved and published. In these cases, it would be very useful for the draft deposit to display in the profiles of all affiliated researchers for their review and feedback.
10 votesAdminTami Ezra
(Admin, Ex Libris)
responded
Removing the "accepted" status so that institution can continue voting as agreed with the PWG.
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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 job to batch edit and/or suppress file labels in File Viewer
Currently, the file label displays in the File Viewer above the file itself and appears as prominently as the title of the asset (same font and size). For the thousands of assets we migrated to Esploro, this file label is by default the file name, which references the ID number of the file in our previous repository and nothing else (e.g., no author, title, year). This is not at all helpful to our patrons and is frankly quite ugly. So I would recommend that you add a job to edit and/or suppress the file labels in batch. Right now we…
30 votesUnder Review ·
AdminShoshana de la Fuente
(Product Manager, Esploro Repository, Ex Libris)
responded
Thank you for your suggestion. We are considering allowing batch update of file display titles through CSV update.
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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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Improve version control of research assets
Research outputs typically go through several different iterations or versions over the course of their lifecycle. NISO, for example, defines up to seven versions of scholarly journal articles http://www.niso.org/publications/niso-rp-8-2008-jav. In order to avoid confusion, support proper citation, and ensure compliance with publisher open access policies, it is critically important that institutional repositories clearly distinguish between different versions of the same work by prominently displaying this information in both the asset record and PDF cover sheet.
Esploro currently offers two options for communicating version: asset type and file type.
Asset type refers to the type of resource being deposited. When…
31 votesAdminTami Ezra
(Admin, Ex Libris)
responded
Removing the "accepted" status so that institution can continue voting as agreed with the PWG.
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Assign assets with active messages to administrators
Currently, you can only assign assets that have not yet been approved to administrators. Due to the built in messaging system in the faculty profiles, it would be helpful from a management standpoint to be able to assign assets with active messages to administrators. Currently, assets with active messages are only visible in the general task list. It's not possible to know what is in progress or being reviewed by another administrator unless you open each asset to view any communications. Furthermore, we have to leave open cases set to active to ensure that communications are followed up on (especially…
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Add dedicated accessibility fields
Add fields to document the accessibility of individual research assets. This information can help Esploro managers track accessibility compliance for items and set expectations for users who may want to access items. At minimum, one field with controlled vocabulary terms and another for free-text entries would be helpful. See Cornell eCommons for sample controlled vocabulary terms addressing accessibility features and accessibility hazards: https://guides.library.cornell.edu/ecommons/batchmetadata#s-lib-ctab-19527879-4 We need our repositories to be in compliance with WCAG guidance and better mechanisms for tracking accessibility are paramount.
31 votesAdminTami Ezra
(Admin, Ex Libris)
responded
Removing the "accepted" status so that institution can continue voting as agreed with the PWG.
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Allow usage data to be captured more granularly
We would like to suggest two improvements for capturing asset views/downloads at a more granular level.
1) Tracks usage for each file associated with an asset
An asset can include more the one file. However, Esploro only shows the combined usage of all files associated with the asset. We would like views and downloads to be tracked individually for each file.2) Track usage by geography.
Allow users to drill down (in both the portal and Analytics) to view usage by country of origin. This would be particularly helpful for evaluating the reach and impact of an institution's research in…2 votes -
Add notes that display in Esploro brief record display
Though many Esploro researcher deposits naturally disappear from the research deposits queue as part of their lifecycle -- approved, returned to researchers, etc. -- for deposits that for one reason or another have to remain in the deposits queue for an extended period, a type of internal note explaining their presence in the brief display would be very helpful.
In our case, our library does the work of seeking OA permissions for deposits, leaving deposits in the queue awaiting responses for a period of days, weeks, and in rare cases months. As you may imagine, this can build up very…
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Esploro - Add action for assigning a name variant to job Update Set of Research Assets
Sometimes we need to bulk update the name displayed in the Discovery Portal for a Researcher. To do so we create a new name variant but we would also like to bulk update all assets related to this specific Researcher with the new "Name Variant".
To do so an action "Choose Name Variant" could be added to existing Job: Update Set of Research Assets / Task Creator or Contributor
Such a feature would also be very useful to refine the data after an import via file or an harvesting.
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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 votesAdminTami Ezra
(Admin, Ex Libris)
responded
Removing the "accepted" status so that institution can continue voting as agreed with the PWG.
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Add way to facet research deposit by assigned to person
As staff members are learning how to add deposits to Esploro, I review the work. Now that we have several people adding items, it would be helpful to be able to filter to one specific person to aid in training/reviewing their work
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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 votes
Na'ama Shamir Kenan
responded
Dear 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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Analytics - ability to report on 'Asset Approved By'
In Analytics, under the 'Esploro Research Assets' subject area, we can currently report on 'Asset Created By' and 'Asset Modified By'.
We'd like to also be able to report on 'Asset Approved By'.This additional functionality will assist us in monitoring the work of trainees that are learning the system and our processes.
thanks
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Add research topics at "add researcher" step within record
When a researcher is incorrectly matched, we often have to create a new non-affiliated one in the record. We can add their affiliation, but we can't add research topics. If the name is common, we have to look them up by researcher and add the research topics.
It would be more efficient to add research topics (as keywords) during this step.
4 votesAdminTami Ezra
(Admin, Ex Libris)
responded
Removing the "accepted" status so that institution can continue voting as agreed with the PWG.
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Automated emailing of registered DOIs to ETD authors
Add a scheduled job that automatically emails ETD authors the DOI registered in Esploro for their thesis/dissertation using the email address imported from ETD Admin. Otherwise the DOI is created for the work, but the authors don't even know the DOI exists.
14 votesAdminTami Ezra
(Admin, Ex Libris)
responded
Removing the "accepted" status so that institution can continue voting as agreed with the PWG.
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Improve Grant discovery in Research Portal
We want to work with our Grants Office to track funding acquired by researchers. However, the only way to access grant information is through individual researcher profiles. I believe we can publish Analytics reports for grants to a public webpage in the meantime, but it would be nice to link grants to specific researcher profiles since we are already tracking this information.
Enhancement request: Add the ability to view Grants in the Esploro interface. This might include 1) a tab for Grants that shows a results page for grants, linked to Researcher profiles, with limiters for Org Unit, Grant Category,…
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Tagging Selected Outputs in Esploro
1.0 Proposal to tag or highlight selected outputs
We would like to explore the possibility of “tagging” (or similar demarcation) selected outputs in Esploro to differentiate / highlight them.
This tagging will be additional to the current search / refine options (such as Research Unit or Subject).
All forms of outputs (articles, data sets etc) should be eligible for tagging.For example, we may want to “tag” Covid-19 research papers and data, or other key research on particular themes or goals.
Ideally, there should also be an option of sub-tagging eg. a main tag, and a sub-tag (ie. the option…
8 votes
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