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Analytics should normalize publication titles to cluster article in the same journal more effectively
Analytics currently considers capitalization variants as different for publication titles, and does not disregard initial articles. After a CDI migration in early December, we have both "American Journal of Psychiatry" and "The American journal of psychiatry". We have also gotten both "Gynecologic Oncology" and "Gynecologic oncology" and we have "PloS one" as well as "PLoS ONE" and "PLOS ONE".
12 votesDear Colleagues,
After some investigation I learned that this is not something that our Analytics team is offering. We understand the need for keeping a unified list of journal names yet this is something that will need to be done in Esploro and cannot be resolved only by the Analytics team.
Today it is possible to cluster by ISSN number and create a report by journal ISSN and do a manual data cleanup.
I am closing this idea since it not related to Analytics. If keeping a uniform journal name is a priority, please open a new Idea and please specify different use cases and specific requirements that are important to you.
BR
Na'ama
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Series Title and abbreviated name are Missing from Conference Proceeding
A conference can be published in a book and the book can be labelled as part of a series.
There is no series field in the conference proceeding record.
Note that there is also no field for the abbreviated name of a conference.10 votesPlease use the generic form to edit conference proceedings so that there is access to all of the fields that are needed.
Thanks,
Naomi
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Esploro Portal and Home page
We would like to see the same functionality as in Primo with customization options - upload CSS/JS files. Today we have no useful options to customize our portal and home page. Please include this in the changes of the Q1 2021
Currently, we have the Accessibility menu in Primo we would like to use it in Esploro Portal.
10 votesThanks for your suggestion. Esploro’s Research Portal, which its new interface is currently rolled out, is built using a different design methodology than Primo. According to this methodology, all configuration and customization of the portal should be done using Esploro’s configuration pages, enabling our customers to easily customize the portal to their needs without the need to write code or modify the portal css. We believe that this approach presents good and consistent user experience to our customers and will enable us to further grow the system according to our customers’ needs without forcing the customers to modify their code based on portal changes and without posing risks on changes done to the portal by customers.
I will therefore close this idea and I would like to suggest that if there is a specific functionality or customization option that you think we should add to Esploro, please open a dedicated…
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Alma Esploro Interface and Alma Users as Researchers
In the Alma Esploro interface we would like to not have to edit Researcher roles when a User is also a Researcher. Right now anyone with an Alma login will need to be granted an Observer role in Esploro if they are made Researchers.
2 votesEsploro PWG suggested this can be closed
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Controlled vocabulary for Series titles
We request to add controlled vocabulary for series titles. It can be like the journal's one - against the community zone.
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Internal or External data in the Researcher record
It would be very helpful to know via Analtyics which data fields in the Researcher record were managed internal or externally, particularly when an automatic import of new researchers is employed. This will allow library staff to know which data may be in danger of being overwritten and which data will not be automatically updated.
12 votesDear Colleagues,
I am closing this idea since we do not have fields for the researcher entity management available in Analytics at the moment and we do not intend on adding these fields in the near future.
If this is still an important need for you, please contact the Esploro product team.
BR
Na'ama
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Display All Asset Record IDs in Alma/Esploro Editing Screen
Include all asset record IDs in Alma/Esploro for easier construction of OAI-PMH GetRecord requests. These currently only work on <identifier>oai:alma.61RMIT_INST:11247527950001341</identifier> and this identifier is not displayed in any asset record. This makes it impossible to complete a GetRecord request.
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Add text formatting options to the Abstract Field
When adding new records, it would be great if text editing options could be included to increase the efficiency of abstract editing. Things such as italics, bold, superscript, subscript and paragraph breaks all have to be entered in using HTML coding withich is cumbersome and time-consuming.
Our previous Institutional Repository software included text editing options allowed for very quick and efficient addition of abstract information.10 votesThis feature is only available in the New UI. It will become available for Assets when Assets are moved to the new UI.
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Link Esploro asset records to Alma bib records
Permit Esploro asset records to be linked to bib records in Alma in the same way that holdings, portfolios, and digital representations are linked.
Create an Alma job by which library staff can link assets to bib records by uploading a spreadsheet of asset IDs and their corresponding bib MMS IDs.
Currently, we have two records for every ETD in our collection, the Alma bib record and the Esploro asset record. Both describe the same resource (the bib better than the asset record) and so they should be linked and not turn up in Primo as two separate search results.
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Overlay Option for Import Profiles
To mirror the functionality that already exists in Alma, we would like to see an Overlay option for Import Profiles in Esploro. The current functionality for updating assets in bulk is very limited. The only real solution for bulk updating is to export research assets, update them, and then reload via the import profile process. However, because there are only matching options 1) Do Not Import and 2) Import New Record, this process will lead to unnecessary duplication of asset records. This is particularly important for assets where the master records are maintained in Alma (or OCLC), such as theses…
13 votesHi,
We have developed the export/import assets in CSV functionality to support bulk update of assets. If needed, we can discuss improvements there. We will not add overlay via the Import Profiles.
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Add "Organization ID" to Export to Excel
It would be great if "Organization ID" was added to the assets fields exported to Excel (in "Export list").
4 votesNot clear what is being referred to here and if it is still needed.
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Add the ability to view Publishing Information to Esploro research assets
For Alma physical, electronic and digital records there is the option for administrators to view the Publishing information.
This functionality does not exist for Esploro Research Assets.
Can the ability to view publishing information for Research Assets be added to help enable troubleshooting.3 votesClosed at request of Product Working Group
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Moving from grants to linked assets
It would be helpful if there was an easy way to move from the list of grants to the linked assets, much like you can view assets from a researcher record.
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Activate my profile button on the Researcher Profile
On the researcher profile it would be nice to have a button to request to "publish my profile". The scenario being profiles are by default off and we are asking researchers to update the information in the overview section. It is not obvious to the Researcher that their profile is not live unless they do a search in the Profiles portal for themselves. We are currently manageing this in an online tutorial in Springshares LibWizard with options to "request to publish" or "don't publish I’m still working on it." This would be best managed from within the profiles and the…
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Researcher ability to retrospectively add an accepted manuscript via Researcher profile
• We would like to increase the amount of Open Access available via our repository and would like to see functionality that enabled a researcher to retrospectively submit an accepted manuscript attached to an already reported metadata record. This will become increasingly important once the auto harvester is activated. The manuscript would be submitted and mediated by library staff to ensure that it complies with the copyright requirements and embargo periods of the publisher. I would imagine that it would appear in the task list (as a separate type of task).
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Confirmation message when updating area of interest - Backend
When editing a profile from the Alma backend it is incredibly easy to accidently delete the Areas of Interest section which, if done accidently, would require the researcher to enter the details again. It would be good to have a confirmation message attached to this action e.g. Are you sure you want to delete the Areas of Interest from the Profile?. I know this is operator error and you could cancel out of the record, but I’m sure it’s going to happen at some point.
3 votes
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