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32 results found
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Display ORCID in asset details
Please provide the option to display and link to each creator's ORCID in the Details section of the asset page when it is present in the record. This is standard practice on many publisher websites.
3 votes -
Closed captioning display for video in the Asset File Viewer
The current Asset File Viewer does not display closed captioning for video files. I assumed for a while that I simply had something wrong in our display configs or in how the files were being handled. But when none of that was the problem, I opened a support case and the support tech confirmed the functionality did not exist.
This functionality feels very necessary to me with all of upcoming changes in accessibility rules & best practices. Please add the ability to display videos with their closed captions in the asset file viewer.
Cheers!
Andii15 votes -
Show SDGs as a facet
The information on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the assets in Esploro has enormous potential. We would love to be able to have the SDGs as a facet, since that way users can filter outputs towards their aims. Since the information is already in the asset, we think it could be an easy gain for ExLibris to enable the faceting of this info.
7 votes -
Cover images for metadata only items
We would like a way to have a thumbnail/cover image associated with a metadata only item, particularly a book. We would want the cover to display in a collection like this https://iro.uiowa.edu/esploro/search/collections/Recent-Books-by-UI-Authors/Books?institution=01IOWA_INST to make it look more engaging. The image should as display on a profile, and it should be part of the import to Primo so that it displays there as well. The cover needs to be marked in some way as a cover image so it does not appear to be something with full text available; a cover image should NOT make the asset be flagged as OA.…
8 votes -
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…
10 votes -
Improve Open Access badge logic for assets
Problem: OA badges appear on assets even when neither the asset nor a file or link is designated as OA. This misrepresents the meaning of OA to simply mean “free to read,” and may be incorrectly applied to works to which the creator reserves rights and are not true OA as understood in the community.
Solution: Change the logic as follows:
- An asset should have the OA badge only if a file or link is explicitly affirmed as Open Access, or if the asset itself is declared Open Access.
- Files or links with no value (blank) under access restrictions should…
12 votes -
Statistics section on Esploro Research Portal for subunits
With the new Esploro organizational tree is now possible to display also on subunit webpages the statistics section with metrics related to downloads and views of Esploro records.
In case of organizations with 3 levels (for example in a multi-institution repository where every single institution has itself faculties or institutes as subunits) the metrics are correctly displayed at the parent and at the last sub-unit level, but the middle levels doesn’t display the sum of their sub-units.
In the described scenario this would help to highlight the impact of the research of the single participating institutions.24 votes -
Notification for Staff when asset is self-deposited
When a researcher uses the self-deposit method, our staff would like to be notified that there is a deposit ready for checking. The only way to do this is to go to the task list and go to unassigned and then filter out to researcher deposited. This is not obvious to the staff. This leads to self deposited deposits being left for a year without realizing that no one has looked at it.
It would be great to either create a new widget or even send an email to designated staff to have any new deposits to stand out!
6 votes -
Projects URL should be a friendly URL
When you add a Project URL to a project (in the top section, not as a link) there is no option for a title to display instead of the url itself. Depending on the URL, this can look very messy.
We would like the ability to add a title, similar to when adding a link.
E.g. from our sandbox (excuse the crazy colours!) https://scu-researchmanagement-psb.esploro.exlibrisgroup.com/esploro/project/82562054800023684 votes -
More flexibility in student works that are part of degree requirement
We need more flexibility in student works that are part of degree requirements (degree culminating publications). These are often thought of as ETDs (theses and dissertations). However, some degrees do not require a thesis or dissertation and instead have a a capstone or a case report. These are very different than a thesis/dissertation, but the only option for student work at the end of a degree are the ETD options. This means that a quite short case report is displaying as a dissertation - https://iro.uiowa.edu/esploro/outputs/9984560345602771
The ETD type is good because we want the advisors handled in the same manner…
9 votes -
Ability to display thumbnail images of outputs wherever they are listed (e.g. on the Outputs tab of a Profile)
Currently, when a file has been loaded to an asset, the thumbnail shows in the repository view, but not the profile view.
Likewise, if the asset is listed as a related asset to a project, the thumbnail does not display.
We would like to see consistency so that the thumbnail is display anywhere there is a list of assets.This is especially important for profiles as we are currently trying to encourage our creative academics to use their profiles and having a visual element would make them much more inclined to use them.
7 votes -
Enable suppression of assets on portal and profiles before approval of the asset
We can currently only suppress assets from the portal and profiles after we've approved the asset post. This approach carries the risk of forgetting to adjust the asset's visibility later, potentially leading to it being visible when it shouldn't be.
Ideally, you should be able to complete all aspects of an asset post, including adjusting its visibility, before approving it. This is particularly crucial for key functionalities like the visibility of an asset.
7 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?
12 votes -
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.
6 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 -
Header Search Bar Configuration
The ability to enable/disenable the header search bar separately for the portal, profiles and projects. This would enable flexibility for administrators and the removal of a second and not needed search bar in the portal.
We have neither the profiles nor the projects enabled, so the removal of the header search bar would work well for us.4 votes -
Enable more Esploro metadata fields to be Facetable
Allow more/any Esploro metadata field to be a Facet in the search page (i.e. Journal Name)
7 votes -
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?
14 votes -
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.
3 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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Separate configuration options for faculty and student works
We would like to have more granular control over our asset display configurations. Theses/dissertations and other types of non-published student works do not have the same descriptive needs as published faculty works, and having a blanket configuration that is meant to address all types of published and non-published works is leading to confusion as to how to correctly present and interpret the presented metadata. In order to best represent our non-published student works and ETDs, it would be better to have those assets configured separately from faculty works.
22 votes
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