Media Mentions are an excellent way to showcase the impact of our research, but we don’t have the staff time to add them to Esploro one by one. Since Researchers are the most likely people to know when their work has been mentioned in the media, we would like Researchers to be able to add their own Media Mentions via the Add Content menu and relate them to existing assets. It would be preferable to have institution-level settings for Media Mention submissions with options for auto-approval OR to require administrator review before they display outside the Profile.

Related to: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/929326-esploro/suggestions/46330147-allow-researchers-to-add-their-own-media-mentions

When adding keywords to different entities (additional subjects in assets or grants, keywords in activities or projects, keywords on researcher profiles, etc), they need to be added or removed one at a time. This could be significantly improved in a number of ways.

• Provide the option to remove all keywords. The use-case for this would be when the incorrect keywords are imported (e.g. when the keywords from a Journal are prefilled instead of the keywords from the Article). Manually removing the keywords one by one is time consuming, this could be resolved by a ‘remove all keywords’ option.

• Provide the option to copy and paste a character separated list of keywords. The use-case for this would be when an asset isn’t found in the CDI but there are a list of keywords available to copy/paste. The keyword items have to be copy and pasted (or retyped) individually into the field. Autoparsing of a copy/pasted list would alleviate workload for staff and reduce copy/paste errors.

• Allow reordering of keywords. The use-case is for if there is a problem with one keyword, but it happens to be the first keyword, all other keywords need to be individually deleted and re-typed to get the correction fixed and all the keywords in the correct order.

Now that ORCID has added new asset types, Esploro should be able to map to them and cover a broader range of scholarly creations. Here are ORCID's new work types:

1. Design: Plans, drawing or set of drawings showing how something e.g. building, product is to be made and how it will work and look.

2. Image: A visual representation other than text, a still image.

3. Moving image: A moving display, either generated dynamically by a computer program or formed from a series of pre-recorded still images imparting an impression of motion when shown in succession.

4. Sound: A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds.

5. Musical composition: Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music.

6. Blog post: A piece of writing or other item of content published on a blog.

7. Conference presentation: A set of slides containing text, tables or figures, designed to communicate ideas or research results, for projection and viewing by an audience at a conference, symposium, seminar, lecture, workshop or other gatherings.

8. Conference proceedings: Conference proceedings is the official record of a conference meeting. It is a collection of documents which corresponds to the presentations given at the conference. It may include additional content.

9. Clinical study: A work that reports on the results of a research study to evaluate interventions or exposures on biomedical or health-related outcomes. The two main types of clinical studies are interventional studies (clinical trials) and observational studies. While most clinical studies concern humans, this publication type may be used for clinical veterinary articles meeting the requisites for humans.

10. Learning object: Teaching material. A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments.

11. Cartographic Material: Any material representing the whole or part of the earth or any celestial body at any scale. Cartographic materials include two- and three-dimensional maps and plans (including maps of imaginary places); aeronautical, navigational, and celestial charts; atlases; globes; block diagrams; sections; aerial photographs with a cartographic purpose; bird’s-eye views (map views), etc

12. Transcription: A written record of words spoken in court proceedings or in a speech, interview, broadcast, or sound recording.

13. Public Speech: (new work type; not mapped to COAR.) An oral presentation of information to the public. Including talks, interviews and podcasts.

See https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/ for the full list

The primary goal of most institutional repositories is to provide free, public access to the research output of the institution. Although Esploro offers institutions the ability to grow their repository by harvesting publication metadata from external sources, the imported metadata is of limited value without full text or the location where the file is open access. We would like to see Esploro's smart harvesting capabilities extended by offering customers the option to match imported records with full text available from sources like Unpaywall. Using Unpaywall's API, it may be possible to identify Creative Commons licensed full text, import either the associated file or file location, and match them to records based on their DOI.

Many assets 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. You can change the order by dragging people within a section but you can't drag them from one section to another. If an asset is added for someone you cannot delete them from the asset.

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.

Make deposit forms and related workflows configurable by asset type.

• The configurations should include better visibility to select a license and all the date types that are available on the Admin side.

• It should also have an "Instructions" field for every entry field and more options for the display of co-authors and contributors.

• Ability to add relationships between assets, e.g. between data set and publications

• Ability to add custom sections to the form and move fields as needed so that elements can be grouped based on an institution's preferences.

In Primo, it is possible to export the results of a search (or at least, up to 50) by selecting them and then Exporting them, there does not seem to be the same option in the Researchers portal. We would like to be able to export search results from Esploro. Ideally, this export would not be restricted to 50.

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. Duplicate the existing metadata then allow the user to change the fields that need to be changed before saving.