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Resources in Esploro duplicated in Primo VE
Resources inserted in Esploro are duplicated in Primo VE when a bibliographic record for the same work exists in Alma or in other collections.
We are proposing that the deduplication process, used in Primo VE for other record sources, wolud be used also for Esploro resources59 votesDear Colleagues,
We are looking into this issue, we might have a way to flag the publications better for Primo VE to dedup.
We will let you know of updates.
Na'ama
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Configure date types used for searching and filtering in research portal
Currently, the Date facet in the research portal includes all types of dates associated with an asset (e.g. created, published, submitted, availability). Some of these dates may be used more for administrative purposes (i.e. we use Submitted for when items like ETDs were added to the repository, which may not be related to when the asset was created), and therefore should not be used for filtering search results for users.
Additionally, because not all of the date types display in the asset details, the search results when using the date facet can be confusing for users. If a user filtered…
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LoC and DC Headings
We would like to have the availablity to select Library of Congress or Dublin Core Subject Headings instead of the ExLibris base set of subjects. We found that ExLibris's base set is poorly inadequate and it became a huge annoyance and time consuming to copy and paste the Library of Congress headings for our catalogers.
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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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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…
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Ability for researchers to show/hide details in the Communication section of their profile
Our researcher contact details are imported daily and we are finding some researchers add other email, phone and address details via their profile and would rather the alternate contact details be displayed.
We would like a button next to each entry in the Communication section so researchers can decide which to make visible, similar to the toggle visible/hidden icon available in the Affiliations section.
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Display embargo release date in Esploro research portal
We would like the ability to display the "Release Date", i.e. the date that the embargo on an asset was lifted, in the public research portal. We would like for the embargo release date to display in the asset details for both assets that are currently embargoed and assets who's embargo has lifted.
We think it would be helpful to have an indication in the public asset metadata that the asset was embargoed at some point. This would be helpful for researchers, and also (especially for ETDs) for the asset's author to understand when the asset became available.
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Local copyright permissions
Over the years we've negotiated permissions with some publishers. Our local permissions can differ to information in Sherpa.
We'd like a way to upload these permissions into Esploro so that we could interrogate it in a similar way to how we can through Sherpa in the form.
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Administrator emails for asset messages
Currently, any notifications from researchers regarding asset communications are only visible to administrators via the task list. Even though assets with active messages are separated into its own category in the task list, we would like notifications for assets that already have active messages and received additional messages to be more direct. Notifications could be sent as an email to the administrator or at the least some notification in the task list that there is a new message and which asset it belongs to. As is, it’s not clear which asset has received an additional message and requires drilling down…
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Marking Honors, scholarship, projects, or activities as "featured" to better highlight them
Some faculty or researchers have honors, activities, scholarship, or projects that in some sense defines them. Instead of those items blending in with everything else, it would be nice to have a way of highlighting or featuring certain things. As an example, if someone won the nobel prize, they would most certainly want that to be made more prominent in some way.
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Searching for Labels
When it comes to customizing and configuring the labels (Configuration > Portal & Profiles > General Settings > Labels), we have to go through each label section one by one to search for the desired label to update. Is it possible to add a search feature to Labels, such as in Alma where we can search either by description or code name?
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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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Controlled vocabularies and metadata field limits
To aid in the discovery of both researchers and assets, it would be great if the following functionality were available:
- Ability to limit keywords/research topics at the researcher level
- Ability to limit the length of the describe your research section of the profile
- Availability of more controlled vocabularies - preferably not LCSH, but a blend of subject-specific vocabularies (MeSH, Inspec, MLA, etc. -- maybe even the controlled vocabularies from the old CSA indexes given how good they are for the social sciences)
- Ability to limit keywords to just items from controlled vocabularies
We had an extensive discussion today with a…
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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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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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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…
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Expertise Finder
Esploro is capable of being an Expert Finder but limited to subject matter expertise gleaned from your Research Topics. What about an entire area for Expertise in the profile? The idea would be to list things you consider yourself an expert in (using the same taxomonies already available or free text) and offer toggles for :
-willing to be contacted about
-willing to mentor
-willing to assist in an emergency
-willing to serve on a committee
etc..Then the expertise is explicitly searchable and also indicative of people willing to apply that expertise in those scenarios. Then we would not…
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Add option to easily export internal organization structure to spreadsheet
We would like to be able to export a file which includes:
Top level unit | 2nd level unit | 3rd level unit | etc for all levels
For example:
Weizmann Institute | Chemistry Faculty | Organic Chemistry Department
Weizmann Institute | Chemistry Faculty | Materials and Interfaces Department
Weizmann Institute | Biochemistry Faculty | Molecular Cell Biology Department
We managed to create such a report using the ‘Esploro Research Assets’ subject area – but this report includes only departments and faculties for which we have assets. If there are departments for which we do not have assets, they will…9 votesHi,
I am reviewing Ideas Exchange and have some questions about this idea
This would be an export of the org structure only? Is this in reference to analytics?
What purpose would this report serve?
Thanks
Tami
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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.
8 votes -
Add the ability to display PlumX metrics badges
We would like the ability to display PlumX badges for assets. Being able to display WOS and Altmetrics badges/metrics on assets is great, but WOS covers only a select group of journals. Adding the ability to also include PlumX badges on assets would expand our metrics coverage to give administrators the numbers they want, and give researchers a fuller, more accurate picture of the impact of their works. Metrics make the academic world go round. And the more information we can provide our users, the more buy in we encourage across campus.
8 votes
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