Nancy Schuler
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An error occurred while saving the comment Another area of the form that needs more development is under the file submission option for access rights. The area for students to specify sharing preferences is hidden and existing options are out of the box only. This should be a separate field on the main form that is impossible to skip. The four provided do not match our preferred options. In particular, it is missing an option for our Campus Defined - Restricted Access option which limits access by IP range. Where do these options come from? It seems like they should match the options for the file-specific Access Rights policies in the ETD form.
In our existing form (google form), we allow students to choose between Open Access, Campus Access (IP range), and Closed Access. I don't see a field available that would allow them to select this important designation. These are important customizations that are necessary to help make deposits easier. Currently, we use a convoluted process to add theses to Alma, export those fields, and then import them into Esploro via import profile. Direct deposits via students that are reviewed and approved by Esploro admin would really help to streamline this process but the form needs to include the instructions we share with students.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Here are additional suggestions for improving grants display and discovery in Esploro:
GRANT DISPLAYS IN PROFILES - Change grant display to show the following:
- Title of Grant - this currently shows a link to the grant URL, if available, but it currently shows as link even if none exists. This should be fixed.
- Funding Amount - this is not currently visible but should be visible by default, with an option to hide the grant amount in the admin form
- Grant Recipients (list all, ideally with link to Research Profiles)
- Grant Description field - this should be included in profiles
- Currently, only ACTIVE grants are visible in profile. ALL grants should be visible in profile whether they are active or not. We have to workaround this issue and make all grants as ACTIVE in order for this to work now.MAIN SEARCH
- include Grants in main search or as a separate searchDEDICATED GRANT PAGE
Create dedicated grant page that can optionally appear in header, footer, and homepage that includes the following
- Chart of total grants by year and amount
- Chart of total grants by funder
- List of grants received for a given time period -
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An error occurred while saving the comment I agree that this issue prevents us from accurately representing non-OA versions of works. In addition, there is no way to make an asset file available without making it OA as well. We have many assets such as presentations, conference programs, newletters, etc., that are freely available to read but aren't really "open access". A different designation would be more helpful for this. In addition, I have noticed that if a asset file is uploaded but marked as closed, it does not allow the OpenURL resolver link to show on the record. Many of our researchers upload files for the Publisher record, not realizing they are not OA versions. We have to mark these as "Closed" do make them inaccessible, but this prevents the OpenURL links from showing and the only way to resolve this is to delete the file.
I think multiple fixes are necessary to address these issues and it may be worth exploring with more users. Here are some suggestions:
1) There should be a "Free to Read" marker in addition to the "Open Access" marker for non-OA assets that are openly available. I noticed that this was previously suggested in a Basecamp group by Southern Cross and I think it makes sense.
2) Assets with files marked as "Closed" should not display "Open Access" flag.
3) Assets with files marked "Closed" should still display the Open URL links.
4) Perhaps assets with "Accepted" or other openly available manuscript versions should have another flag as well such as "Accepted version available" or "Pre-print available" since the "open access" label is misleading.
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This Idea is very broad, and since it was opened new functionality has been added, in particular the Update by CSV. CSV update covers all metadata fields in the Asset but does not include Authors, either creators or contributors, or Files.
It would be helpful to get an updated list of priorities.
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Thanks for the examples - we will review them and discuss our options.
Best,
Tamar
I will add that there should also be an option to IMPORT media mentions. There is already an option to import grants. The option to import media mentions would make them much easier to add.