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  1. Configure Time Delay of Letter Delivery

    Similar to scheduling the time of an email in Outlook (see attachment), permit the Esploro letters administrator to set a time delay for when letters are sent.

    Our use case is as follows:
    When we enter new theses, it can take up to 15 minutes for them to be available via the public portal after record 'Approval'. If enabled, a Deposit Status Update Letter is sent to the author immediately on 'Approval'. If the author opens up their letter straight away, they are presented with a dead link. We have disabled the Deposit Status Update Letter as a result.
    If…

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Research Repository  ·  Admin →
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  2. 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
    2 comments  ·  Research Portal and Publishing  ·  Admin →
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  3. Zotero - Esploro: can you make it work?

    We recommend all our users to use Zotero as their reference management software. Its connector captures a lot of metadata from a vast variety of sources...but in Esploro it doesn't work. I dont see how we can encourage users to use this platform when at the moment of the research they will have to go get the metadata from another source or manually enter it. We would love to be able to use the Zotero connector when in Esploro to capture the metadata and the pdf if possible, of the item. Could you please take this idea into consideration? Thanks…

    3 votes
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  4. Add ability to embed video in Esploro content areas.

    At the moment, iframes (embedded video players) are not supported in Esploro. Embedded video might include content relevant to research profiles, projects, grants, and other areas where videos are already hosted elsewhere (e.g. youtube). This would enhance researcher profile records, and allow the ability to include more engaging content. Please consider including this functionality in all relevant areas, specifically descriptions, summaries, etc.

    0 votes
    Under Review  ·  1 comment  ·  Researcher Profiles  ·  Admin →
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  5. 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…

    13 votes
    0 comments  ·  Research Repository  ·  Admin →
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  6. Bulk updates to "Managed Externally" checkboxes

    Currently, if the "Managed Externally" checkboxes are checked, faculty are unable to make changes to any of the fields. This became apparent when we noticed that prefilled Education fields (filled in during the time of our migration) were not accurate and the faculty members were not able to update it unless we uncheck these boxes. However, in a user's account there are up to 5-6 of these boxes. I was looking for a job that can bulk uncheck some if not all the boxes in all researchers.

    8 votes
    0 comments  ·  Researcher Profiles  ·  Admin →
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  7. 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.

    14 votes
    Under Review  ·  0 comments  ·  Researcher Profiles  ·  Admin →
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  8. 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…

    9 votes
    Under Review  ·  1 comment  ·  Researcher Profiles  ·  Admin →
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  9. Ability to update affiliation of researchers attached to a grant

    When adding a researcher to a grant you are not able to update their affiliation.
    Assuming Esploro will be developed to show collaboration in grants, it will be necessary to have the correct affiliation showing for the researchers attached to a grant, similar to the affiliation for researchers attached to an asset.

    1 vote
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  10. 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).

    6 votes
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  11. 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
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  12. 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
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  13. Consolidated Task List for all assets requiring staff intervention

    When our staff work on approving assets they need to work off multiple lists because of how they are displayed in the tasks list. We would like to see a consolidated list of Draft and Pending Approval assets so that we can then filter by date or researcher to work through them as a batch. As it is, we need to check in the Smart Expansion task list, the Research Deposits task list, and the Smart Harvesting task list.

    A consolidated list would streamline our workflow and make assigning tasks to users significantly easier.
    (But don't remove the break-down of…

    6 votes
    0 comments  ·  Research Repository  ·  Admin →
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  14. Improve functionality of the Areas of Interest to allow labelled headings and locking of specific serctions

    Esploro has ability to add multiple sections in the field for Area of Interest. However, when the profile is edited in the public view (Researcher portal) all the separate segments are merged into one.

    We would like the ability to further control the look and access option for the Area of Interest sections.

    For example: We currently use HTML to include headers for different sections of Researchers’ biographies, e.g. Biography, Research, Teaching.

    Ideally, we'd be able to have separate fields, with customisable labels, in the Area of Interest so that we could control which fields to display and have greater…

    5 votes
    Under Review  ·  1 comment  ·  Researcher Profiles  ·  Admin →
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  15. Ability to Upload updated Internal Organization file without overwriting the whole structure

    The ability to uplaod a new internal organization file (exported from Workday with edits) without overwriting the existing structure or detaching assets would be a huge time saver. Right now we have to go in manually and make significant changes on a regular basis because our university re-organizes frequently.

    2 votes
    0 comments  ·  Research Repository  ·  Admin →
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  16. Expose all User record fields on the Researcher subject area

    Currently, the User fields that are part of Researcher subject area are incomplete. I need to be able to include the campus that the researcher is associated with in my report.

    I cannot get the information out of the Researcher Subject area as it is not exposed.

    There appears to be no API or analytic subject area that all the researcher contact information, identifiers, urls (image and profile), keywords, affiliations, assets etc is available from.

    I would like to see all the user fields included on the researcher subject area.

    The use case is to be able to use the…

    3 votes
    Under Review  ·  0 comments  ·  Analytics  ·  Admin →
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  17. Remove “Edit Profile” if there is No access to the Researcher Profile

    We would like to remove “Edit Profile” from the researcher’s actions drop down menu If a researcher has “Has Access to the Researcher Profile” set to No

    8 votes
    Under Review  ·  0 comments  ·  Researcher Profiles  ·  Admin →
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  18. Allow customers to modify the frequency of the usage statistics letter

    Currently, the usage statistics letter can only be sent monthly. Some researchers find this schedule too aggressive (especially considering asset usage doesn't typically change dramatically from month to month). Many of these researchers tend to unsubscribe as a result. However, some have suggested they would be more open to receiving these notifications is they were less frequent. We suggest Ex Libris consider giving customers the option to modify the frequency of this letter (i.e., quarterly or annually).

    Ideally, it would be great if researchers themselves could manage their notification preferences (including frequency) from their researcher profile. See related enhancement request:

    …

    4 votes
    0 comments  ·  Research Repository  ·  Admin →
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  19. Researcher to choose which email display in their profile

    Some of our Researcher records have multiple email addresses, whether by manual entry or from external data.

    Example: Amanda has recently married, changed surnames and has a new email address (both her old and new emails are active work emails).

    Amanda only wishes to use her new email with her married surname, so this email is set to be the preferred email address in her User record.
    Amanda only wants to display her new email on her Researcher profile, however both her old and new emails are being displayed, as they are both email Type: Work and we have configured…

    9 votes
    Under Review  ·  1 comment  ·  Researcher Profiles  ·  Admin →
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  20. Show "view online" link resolver links regardless of other links

    The view online option of link resolver only displays when there are no other links or files attached to an asset. Our procedure is to always add a link to the published version of the record, therefore the link resolver never displays.

    We would like to have the option to display link resolver links even if there is already a link in the record. This would ensure our staff and students could still access the resource if we have a full text subscription AND visitors to the portal could link to the published version.

    In 2020 when we were launching…

    34 votes
    0 comments  ·  Research Portal and Publishing  ·  Admin →
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