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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?
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Have date facet on researcher profile output list
Is it possible to add a date 'from-to' facet on the list of outputs on a researcher's profile? It would be nice to have a date filter for researchers with long publication lists so users can easily see what was published in a specific year or range of years.
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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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Clearer publication statuses on researcher profile pages
Publication statuses of assets appear on the list of Outputs on researcher profiles but these do not appear when you click through onto an individual output. It would be useful to have the status on the individual output page to make it clear if an output is accepted, online published, or published in issue at the top of the output page.
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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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Improvements to Scopus Citation Metric loading
In order to add Scopus Citation Metrics to Esploro assets, we currently have to create a list of DOIs, run the list through a script created by Mark Paris of Brandeis University, that script runs each doi through Scopus' API then outputs excel file(s) with the citation counts, we then upload the file(s) into Esploro following the method described in the Knowledge Base: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Esploro/Product_Documentation/Esploro_Online_Help_(English)/Working_with_the_Esploro_Research_Hub/010_Working_with_Research_Assets#Loading_Citation_Metrics
Script for harvesting citation metrics from Scopus: https://github.com/Brandeis-Library/esploroCitationUploads_Scopus
Unfortunately, Esploro has a hard limit of 999 citations per excel file. At present, we have 90,000 assets that we need citation metrics for. We ask that ExLibris…
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Analytics report on Researcher Profile Engagement
Other than via approving deposited assets, we currently have no good way of knowing which of our researchers are actively updating their profiles. We recommend an Analytics report that would indicate the number of times researchers have viewed/edited their own profiles, as well as the most recent view/edit. This would help us identify researchers we could work with as ambassadors for the product as well as marketing to non-users.
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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.
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Enhancements for the Portal Profile Output Screen
Please consider to add the following functionalities to the Portal Profile Output screen.
(1) Search Bar: Implement a search bar to easily locate specific Assets within the researcher profile.
(2) Increased Display Limit: Allow users to increase the number of Assets displayed per page (e.g., from the current 10 to 20 or 30).
(3) Customizable Display Order: Provide options to change the display order of Assets within the researcher profile. (e.g. by name, date modified, etc.)
The primary reason for this requests is the difficulty researchers face in finding specific Assets when they've uploaded a large number of files themselves.…
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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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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?
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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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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…
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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
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Make subtype display more prominently
The subtype field could make our existing asset types much more flexible if it displayed in the brief results (both in the portal and on profiles). We use it to clarify "other" and to add more specificity to an existing type, for example Statutory Drafting, Brief of Appellant, Documentary, and Audiobook. A facet is actually not a good solution (despite having previously suggested it and that being implemented) because it makes these minor subtypes appear very prominently for broad searches. (We turned on this feature when it was introduced and almost immediately turned it off). The real need is both…
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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.…
8 votes -
Related Researchers
Our faculty requested the ability to have related researchers appear in their profiles. Other products offer similiar functionality (e.g., https://research.torrens.edu.au/en/persons/mifrah-ahmad/similar). Ideally, our faculty would have the ability to manually modify who displays in their list.
Business need: Students often seek out faculty based on their research interest. Sometime the faculty member they want to work with doesn't have availability. This feature would allow the student to see other faculty working on related research.
6 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.
2 votes -
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…
9 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
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