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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.
1 voteIncluded in 2026 roadmap
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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.
55 votesOn 2026 roadmap
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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 votesPlanned in 2026 roadmap "Find similar researchers"
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Move Activities date field so that when Activity is created or edited via the Portal is more obvious how to update
When a researcher adds an activity via their profile it is not obvious where to enter the date. They need to know to click the pencil icon next to the title of the activity to add or edit the date. This is a problem for Researchers both when initially creating an Activity and if editing and existing Activity.
My suggestion is to move the editing of Activity dates out of the title section of the Activity and instead put it on the main Edit Activity form. See attached mockup.
3 votesIncluded in 2026 roadmap
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Ability to reorder sections on the Researcher Profile Overview page
We are using the Research Engagement field to indicate which faculty are open to speaking to the media. (We've labelled this "Media Availability.") This often appears at the top of the profile (e.g. when the researcher hasn't filled in the "Areas of Interest" field), and we would like to be able to move it down. Here is an example: https://scholars.csus.edu/esploro/profile/erin_kaplan/overview?institution=01CALS_USL
2 votesPlanned in 2026 roadmap
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Display multiple SDG sources
Currently, the InCites integration allows for SDGs to be listed with the source of InCites (https://researchportal.scu.edu.au/esploro/outputs/991013141813602368) OR we can manually add SDGs via Esploro and they are listed with no source (e.g. https://researchportal.scu.edu.au/esploro/outputs/991013062209302368). We would like to see the ability to display BOTH manually added and imported SDGs.
For example, this same asset listed above from our live environment, I've added SDG 4, 8, 10 via the back end, but then it displays ONLY as 4,8,10 in the portal, overriding the SDG 3 from inCites: https://scu-researchmanagement-psb.esploro.exlibrisgroup.com/esploro/outputs/991013089213502368?institution=61SCU_INST
Ideally the source of the SDG could be shown similarly to…
16 votesPart of 2026 roadmap
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Ability to shift a researcher from creator to contributor (and reverse)
Books and edited books and book chapters can come in with editors not where we would like them (as creators or contributors). It would be helpful if we could easily shift them between the two without having to delete and re-enter them. this is especially true when there are multiple editors. If an asset is added for someone you cannot delete them from the asset.
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Add media availability to researcher profile
In partnership with our campus's communications office, we would like to be able to use the Researcher Profiles to easily identify faculty who are willing to speak to media on topics relating to their areas of expertise. This could be a simple "Media Availability" field: yes/no.
10 votesIn 2026 roadmap
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Make collections searchable
Collections is a feature where the institution can display selected assets together. The assets are displayed as a list you can scroll through. To make the collections more user friendly it would be nice to make a search function for collection/to make assets searchable in the collection searchable. If there are many assets in a collection it would be optimal for the user to be able to search for a specific asset or keyword in the collection.
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Request access to restricted files via the Research Portal
In 2020, an enhancement was released that allows repository staff to generate a temporary access link to restricted files. The 2022 roadmap included a second phase of this enhancement that promised a dedicated interface allowing users to request access to restricted files from the Research Portal. See screenshot: https://www.screencast.com/t/TBWet5cr. However, this enhancement was never delivered.
We request this enhancement be added back to the roadmap.
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Allow researchers to reorder Members and Member Organisations in Projects.
In the Projects section of a profile Members and Member Organizations appear in the order they are added by the researcher. It is not possible for researchers to change the order once added without deleting and starting gain. Please allow researchers to reorder these fields in their profiles.
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Allow researchers to add their own Media Mentions and Grants via the Add Content menu.
Currently, Media Mentions and Grants can only be added via the admin side. Researchers should have this ability as well. Media Mentions (MM) and Grants could be added via the Add Content menu, with submissions approved by the library (similar to assets). The library would either need to enable these tabs on the researcher profiles, or they would automatically appear if MM or Grants are added.
20 votesPart of 2026 roadmap
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Provide enhanced ability to customize Student Deposit Profile
The current student deposit form (Configuration > Repository > Manage Student Deposit Profiles) has limited options for customization. We would like to see the following changes made in order to enable use of the form and make student deposits more streamlined. This would remove our need to upload assets ourselves. Here are a few suggestions:
1) Add an "Instructions" field for every entry field to appear below the field name in smaller text.
2) Co-authors - remove this field or make it optional. If this is not possible, could instructions be added to make it clear that it is optional.…54 votes -
Duplicate an existing record for new record edit
It would be good to be able to duplicate an existing asset in order to create and edit a new asset. This could be especially useful if there are multiple book chapters from the same book, or conference papers from the same conference.
11 votes
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