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Make researcher note viewable in more locations
The researcher note was added in Feb 2024. You can view it on the researcher record and in the SH queue on a match for an individual person. However, we need to see these notes (or the presence of these notes) in other places to assist with identifying the correct person.
* When you are in an asset (including when in an asset doing smart harvest) - this could even be an indication of a note on a researcher card
* When merging researchers - this could be an indication of a note on the search results for people
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M.Rodriguez-Marquez@surrey.ac.uk
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…
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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 votesHi Nancy,
I verified and indeed we do not check peer review via Alma CZ. In principle could be done and I accepted the idea but I cannot commit to a timeline.
I would like to ask you how often you use the SE via Citation Lists and in which scenarios.
Thanks
Tami
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Ability to customise grant labels
When selecting investigators to add to a grant, the options are PI (Principle Investigator) or CI (co-investigator). We'd like to be able to customise the labels for these fields.
This is especially confusing in Australia where our national funding body (Australia Research Council) uses the opposite abbreviations so we often choose the wrong one and would like to be able to update the Esploro labels to make: Chief Investigator (CI) and Partner Investigator (PI).
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Viewer for files in Activies and Projects
When files are added to Activities or Projects in Esploro there is no option to view the file in the portal. We suggest to add a File Viewer to display the files in Activities and Projects. This functionality already exist for Output and would be very helpful for Activities and Projects as well. Otherwise it will serve more as a repository for the files.
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Create a new Researcher Profile API that returns the Researcher Profile as a complete entity
Please create a new Researcher Profile API that returns the Researcher Profile as a complete entity. That is, it returns the contents of the Overview (including the profile URL), the Output, the Projects, and the Grants(?) tabs.
1) It would be great to have all of this information returned in one API; and
2) You currently have to filter the Assets API by "Shown in profile: Yes" in order to mimic the display in the Researcher Profile; and
3) Projects (and future Grants?) information is not currently available via API.Thanks,
Blake7 votes -
Thesis advisor/committee member should populate Activities from the ETD record
ETD asset records already have the activity of Thesis advisor/committee member connected directly with titles of ETDs, student names, dates and degree. Adding this information as separate Activities will be time consuming and will likely be filled with errors. This information should be maintained in one place, the ETD record, and then should display in the activity for the faculty member. We should not be creating duplicate information when we can help it. this would ensure that information remains current and is accurate
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ORCID Integration to populate other identifiers
The current Esploro ORCID integration writes the employer to the ORCID. At Southern Cross we have an integration that also pulls the other identifiers from the ORCID record. It would be ideal if the Esploro ORCID integration also wrote the identifiers contained on the ORCID record to Esploro. For example ResearcherID and SCOPUS ID.
Many researchers have linked these identifiers to their ORCID we would like to see them automatically linked via the API to the Esploro Researcher record.34 votes -
Ability to flag external and internally managed grants
When a researcher is involved with a grant that is not managed by the organisation it would be nice to be able able to display this on the profile grants tab. So Internally managed grants would display as internally managed and ones where the researcher is a collaborator on a grant that is owned by another institution would show as externally managed.
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New asset page - navigation between search results
The new portal no longer has Up and Down arrows to navigate to the next record in search results.
We find navigation between search results very useful and would like the left panel with Up and Down arrows added to the new portal.15 votes -
Export of search results from Portal
Whereas in Primo, it is possible to export the results of a search (or at least, up to 50) by selecting them and then Exporting them, there does not seem to be the same option in the Researchers portal. We would like to be able to export search results from Esploro. Ideally, this export would not be restricted to 50.
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OAI_dc output improvements
We would like some improvements to be made to the OAI_dc output file, for example
dc:identifier:
There are a number of identifiers for each record (ISSN, ISBN, DOI, Asset ID, URLs, Esploro URLS (long-type permalink, Viewer, document within viewer) but there is no qualifier to differentiate the identifier/link type
dc:date:
Both published date and conference/event date range appear as dc:date - they can be different years - how do we differentiate?
dc:publisher:
Shows both publisher and country - how to differentiate between the two?
dc:rights:
Includes licence information, copyright statement and internal rights (e.g. open, closed, metadata restricted) - how…
20 votesI didnt hear back from anyone but seems to me like qualified Dublin Core can be the solution.
Tami
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Do you have researchers with the same name? We need a way to distinguish between them
We have several researchers with the same name in our institution.
When in an asset, we want to connect the asset to the correct researcher.
Currently, there is no way to distinguish between them (especially if they are previously affiliated).We suggest including the previous internal affiliation if it is a previously affiliated researcher.
An example is in the attached file.
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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.
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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.
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Include asset status (provisional or approved) in Author Matching Report
When using the Author Matching Report to approve individual researchers on records that were imported via smart harvest, we would find it very useful to be able to distinguish the asset status -- that is, to be able to tell if the asset is still provisional or if it is approved. If we approve one author on an asset, and then create an Author Matching Report it is useful context to know that there is a local co-author. It is also helpful to know there is no local co-author for authors that would typically write with other people at our…
2 votesHi
Makes sense so am accepting. Cannot say when we can get to this.
Tami
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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.
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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…
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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 votesThis idea has been accepted which means that it has been added to our backlog. The status will be updated to "planned" when it has been scheduled.
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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.
29 votes
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