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Ability to bulk update name variant
Currently, it's possible to update the name variant for each individual assets.
However, it's not possible to update the name variant in various assets at the same time.
We have had several cases where we need to change the name variant for around 100 or even 200 assets.
So it's a time-consuming process opening each assets and change the name variant.
18 votes -
Display Author/Creator publications on Portal 'Relevance' results first, before assets they have supervised/edited
When searching or refining by Author/Creator, the theses and dissertations the researcher has supervised, as well as book chapters where they are the editor of the book, come up first in the default 'Relevance' results.
This is misleading and confusing for users, and frustrating for researchers who want their own scholarly works displayed first and consider the works they author the most 'relevant' when searching/refining via their name.
Is there a way that publications/works that a researcher is the actual author/creator, displays first in the results?
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Add asset type Blog post as a type of Publication
We need an asset type Blog post to appear under Publications. These are not entire blogs. These are not interactive resources. They are a type of publication. We currently use asset type Other with a subtype Blog Post, but this means the items are not integrated with other publications on a researcher's profile.
We had hoped to deal with this through a 2023 roadmap item "Local Management of Asset Types and Categories" but it appears this will not be happening.
Note also a request for an image asset type - https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/929326-esploro/suggestions/47430887-image-asset-type
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Ability to merge multiple researchers from the manage researchers page
It would be helpful to have an option to merge multiple duplicate researchers at once from the manage researchers page, rather than relying solely on the bulk merge duplicate researchers report. Many times we need to look at the assets themselves to determine if the researchers are indeed identical.
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Option to display just the Output on the Researcher Profile
Hello,
It would be great to be able to have the option to display either just the Output section for the Researcher Profile or have the option to display the Output tab first before the profile. Since most of the information from the profile page requires active perusal from the faculty, some of the information can be outdated or not "fleshed out" (some of our faculty does not have any profile information on their page)3 votes -
Adding select all to manage creators on an asset
It would be helpful if we had an option to select all researchers when we Manage Asset Creators. For assets with numerous authors to fix, this would be easier than needing to select each person individually.
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Add Teams, Committees, Working Groups as data in Profiles
We would like to see information in the profiles that indicates what Teams, Committees, and Working Groups a person is on or has been on in the past. The field should be indexed so it is searchable and include a date range.
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Ability to batch edit author affiliations
We need a way to improve existing affiliations in assets to both add and cleanup affiliations that do not match with EROD. These affiliations will be more and more important with collaboration reports
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image asset type
Our repository is hosting many image files, ranging from historical photographs to scientific photos preformed gathered by aerial drone survey.
There is no asset type that covers photographs or any other type of image in the platform.
Please add image types.6 votes -
Ability to set a privacy flag in researcher profiles using APIs
Our university provides staff with the ability to set their contact details (work phone, email, office location) as public vs private in our HR system, which determines if these contact details are visible on public-facing applications and systems. These privacy settings do not currently flow through to Esploro. It is not currently possible to change visibility of contact details at an individual level in researcher profiles, either manually or via API. We would like to add the ability to use the Alma/Esploro APIs to set these privacy flags in Esploro Researcher Profiles as well, so that researchers contact details set…
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Ability to bulk update the name of researchers
Ability to bulk update the name of researchers. Currently, we can move asset to a researcher, but if we want the same name variant in all their assets, we need to manually modify it in each asset record.
While moving the assets to a single researcher seems enough to display all the researcher's publication under their profile, it's problematic for the feed to Altmetric Institutional as Altmetric takes the name from the assets.
In addition, academics want to see a consistent name variant throughout their asset records.
We tried to update the author name for a number of assets for…
5 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 keep assets in sets in a specific order
It would be great to have the ability to keep the assets within a set in a specific order. Now that we can use Analytics reports to create sets in Esploro, we would like to use top 10 lists we have created specifically for our institution to create sets of “top 10” assets, and add them to the Top 10 lists area on our homepage. You can currently do all of those things, but the set will not not stay in top 10 order. So the list that displays on the home page is not in top 10 order.
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Researcher ability to remove assets from profile (or flag for Lib to do so)
I am currently at a loss for a good workflow to allow researchers to indicate to me that assets associated with their profiles are wrong. They can hide these assets, but there is no way I can see (from Esploro) which assets are hidden.
A method for the researcher to reject an asset is sorely needed.
Failing that, a system that allows me to see what they are doing with an asset (if they hid it, or flagged it for removal).I have a faculty member with a very common name. Strongly and Very Strongly matched nearly 200 items for…
22 votes -
Include additional entities on CV (media mentions, projects)
Add the option to include missing entities (media mentions & projects) on the CV.
As we enable these new features on profiles they are more obviously missing on the CV.1 vote -
Ability to harvest full text files
The overarching goal of an institutional repository is to provide free public access to the research and creative output of the institution. Although Esploro offers institutions the ability to grow their repository by harvesting publication metadata from external sources, the imported metadata is of limited value without full text. We would like to see Esploro's smart harvesting capabilities extended by offering customers the option to match imported records with full text available from sources like Unpaywall. Using Unpaywall's API, it should conceivably be possible to identify Creative Commons licensed full text files, import them into the repository, and match them…
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Ability to bulk download files from asset record
We have some assets, especially datasets, that have a large number of files attached. It would be very handy if it was possible for a user to bulk download all (or selected) files rather than having to download them individually.
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pop-up notification when communicating with researchers about an asset
When communicating with researchers about an asset, staff members must open the asset record, navigate to the communication tab, enter their message, and click "Send." However, their message is not actually sent to the researcher until the asset record is saved. This is not particularly intuitive, especially because the message appears as a new line in the communication history with the date sent and name of recipient. In order to make this step clearer, we recommend adding a hint or pop-up notification letting staff know the asset record must be saved in order for the message to be sent.
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Button "manage assets" to show all assets
In the backend, there is a menu item with a sub-item "manage" in the menu bar for all types of data entries, whereby all data records that count towards this are then shown. Examples: Researchers -> manage researchers / activities -> manage activities etc.
What is missing is a field "manage assets" under "repository" where all assets are displayed. There is only a heading with this name, but it has different contents. The better heading here would be "normalisation and mapping". there is also no option for "manage ETDs".
Expected behaviour: direct menu access to an overview of all results…
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Embargo options for Links
When researchers deposit large dataset files, it is often impractical to upload them to Esploro. In those cases, we store the datasets externally. Then, in the Esploro record, we upload a readme file and add a link to the externally-stored dataset files. When access to the linked files needs to be embargoed for any number of privacy and security reasons, we need to be able to register DOIs, provide open access to the readme files, AND embargo access to the link(s).
Currently, our workaround is to 1) remove the link from the record; 2) add a copyright statement to the…5 votes -
Enhance Smart Expansion via Bibtex by adding CDI auto population job
When importing records via Bibtex files, records are created but fail to sync with the journal details like Peer Review and Open Access status. When you open the record, both fields are marked as unknown but when you "refresh" the journal name, it seems to retrieve the data necessary to populate these fields. Is it possible to create a separate or subsequent CDI auto population job that matches and updates the journal information for any Smart Expansion via bibtext job so that these don't have to be fixed manually by going to each assert?
Even if there was an intermediary…
2 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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