Digital Commons

A number of enhancements to the Digital Commons Harvesting Tool were developed for our entire community:

• PubMed Harvesting is now fully released (no longer in beta version) with author + affiliation search available and additional metadata mappings supported.
• ORCID Harvesting is now fully released (no longer in beta version).
• The duplication check function is now even more accurate with the underlying machine-learning algorithm enhanced and re-trained.

Contact your Consulting Services representative or product@bepress.com for more details.

Digital Commons

All Digital Commons clients can now utilize the Batch Upload File Manager. This feature allows users to upload multiple files directly from their computer desktop/local drives to a secure Digital Commons server, and returns a URL that can be used for the “fulltext_URL” column in batch upload and batch revise spreadsheets.

This eliminates the need to utilize 3rd party cloud storage providers or internal unsecured servers to host your full-text and files for batch ingest.

Batch Upload File Manager is available to all Digital Commons clients and users with batch upload/revise permissions as a standard part of their license (no additional cost).

Digital Commons Data

And earlier this month, we released the new “Upload from cloud storage” function for all users of Digital Commons Data. Now, whenever a new dataset is being created by any user, they can choose the option of uploading the file from an integrated cloud storage server: Google Drive, DropBox, Box, and OneDrive.

Contact your Consulting Services representative or product@bepress.com for more details about either of these new features.

Digital Commons

We are pleased to announce an integration of Sherpa Romeo with the Digital Commons Harvesting Tool to aid in journal permissions checking.

Journal permissions checking is often noted as the most time-consuming step in efforts to add copies of full-text articles to institutional repositories. With this integration, Digital Commons users can receive Sherpa Romeo metadata for their harvested results to check the journal permissions all at once.

This feature is available immediately to all Digital Commons users of the Harvesting Tool and works with every integrated content source: Scopus, Pure, ORCID, and PubMed.

Contact product@bepress.com for more details.

Digital Commons

Additional enhancements have been made to the Digital Commons Harvesting Tool.

• ORCID harvesting
  New functionality allows the harvesting of works from multiple ORCID profiles at a time: perfect for adding works for entire schools or departments within an institution.
  
• PubMed harvesting
  The affiliation search function now supports logical expressions using parentheses and boolean operators for even more precise identification of affiliated records to harvest. Publication date range filters have also been added for harvesting recent works or specific backfile years.

Contact product@bepress.com for more details.

Digital Commons

Two additional content source integrations have been built into the Digital Commons Harvesting Tool to help institutions automatically populate their IRs with records even more efficiently.

• Pure harvesting
  Pure is a leading Current Research Information System (CRIS) to help institutions manage and report on their research outputs. Institutions subscribing jointly to the two solutions can now use this integration to automatically transfer records and full-text files from Pure to Digital Commons.
  
  
• PubMed harvesting (alpha)
  PubMed is one of the largest databases of biomedical literature citations. With this integration, Digital Commons IR managers can add medical, health, and life science publication records to the IR. Standard Harvesting Tool functionality such as author and institutional affiliation search, automated metadata mapping, and duplication check are available as part of this alpha release.

Contact product@bepress.com for more details or to share feedback on these enhancements.

Digital Commons Data

Digital Commons Data customer repositories are now fully hosted on their own domains for an entirely custom-branded experience (as an example see the Bicocca Open Archive Research Data).

• This includes the complete end-to-end experience, from public pages to the private dataset management/admin interface.

For more information on how to set up a custom-branded Digital Commons Data repository please contact us .

Digital Commons

We are pleased to announce the release of the Digital Commons Exhibits (DCX), a new solution designed to showcase your institution’s best works in a flexible, attractive way – now making Digital Commons a combined full-spectrum repository plus exhibit solution and digital asset management system for your digital collections. Integrated with Digital Commons repositories, DCX provides:

• Streamlined workflows to quickly and easily create beautiful exhibits from your Digital Commons repository content
• Curation tools to highlight the best and most important scholarship your institution has to offer
• A modern, museum-like design that effectively communicates the prestige and reputation of your institution.
• Flexible narrative options to bring archives and special collections to lifeA visually inviting gateway to research projects to attract students and faculty

Each Digital Commons license has access to 10 free exhibits, which can be used to curate items from any publication in your Digital Commons repository to create modern, attractive showcases of your best content. To get your exhibit site set up and start creating your exhibits, contact your Consultant at dc-support@bepress.com.

Digital Commons

The Digital Commons Harvesting Tool has been enhanced in two ways to help institutions automatically populate their IRs with faculty publication records even more efficiently.

The enhancements include:

• Granular Unpaywall OA labels for Scopus harvesting
  The search results and export spreadsheets for Scopus harvesting now indicate if a record is “Gold”, “Gold Hybrid”, “Green Final”, “Green Accepted”, or “Bronze” OA. These labels are based on the Unpaywall open access database, which is integrated into Scopus and passed through the Scopus API. The labels help identify which records it may be easier to acquire a permitted full-text copy for upload into the IR.
  
  
• ORCID harvesting (alpha)
  ORCID has been added as the third source that the DC Harvesting Tool can search and pull records from. In this alpha version, a single-ORCID search generates a list of all the publicly available records from the matching profile. The metadata can then be mapped to a Digital Commons publication of choice, and exported to a batch upload spreadsheet. The ORCID harvesting integration is available to all DC customers regardless of whether they are ORCID institutional members or not.

Contact product@bepress.com or your Consulting Services representative for more details and to share feedback on these enhancements.

Digital Commons Data: announcing a new module for research data submission and hosting

As of today, the Digital Commons repository suite welcomes a new module to the family named Digital Commons Data and focusing on research data outputs.

To learn more about this Digital Commons module and how we support research data management for researchers and institutions access information here.

Digital Commons

The duplication check function in the Digital Commons Harvesting Tool has been enhanced to help institutions automatically populate their IRs with faculty publication records even more efficiently.

The enhancements include:

• The ability to run a duplication check across all publications of a given type (e.g. all series). This should help institutions running affiliation-only searches in the harvesting tool, as well as those who ingest records into various faculty publication series (e.g. across multiple departments).
• Displaying the location/URL of likely duplicate records in the IR in the export spreadsheet. This allows users to go directly to a record to inspect and confirm it is a duplicate.

Contact product@bepress.com or your Consulting Services representative for more details.

Digital Commons Data

We have improved Admin capabilities in Digital Commons Data:

• Customer administrators can transfer ownership of datasets.
• Administrators are also able to take down datasets and to export dataset metadata.

Access more information here or contact your Consulting Services representative.

Expert Gallery Suite

The “Import Works” function for adding records to Expert Gallery Suite/SelectedWorks profiles has been enhanced. The workflow to add relevant records to profiles has been streamlined through:

• Filtering to isolate results that are in your institution’s Digital Commons repository by default (an option has been added to see results from all Digital Commons IRs and SelectedWorks profiles)
• Linking to the URL location of all results for further review
• Automatic population of the profile’s first-listed Display Category for works to be imported

Contact product@bepress.com or your Consulting Services representative for more details.

Digital Commons

• The Digital Commons Harvesting Tool with Scopus integration is now available. The Harvesting Tool lets you automatically populate your IR with faculty publication records more quickly and comprehensively:
  • Identify published works for your faculty/researchers or your entire institution
  • Identify OA articles
  • Auto-map and populate metadata to upload into the IR
  • Check for duplicates

As part of a pilot, all Digital Commons customers receive 1 year of free access to Scopus metadata via the Harvesting Tool for the purposes of populating the IR.

Access more information here or contact your Consulting Services representative.

Digital Commons

• Digital Commons Premier tier journals are now integrated with Aries Systems Editorial Manager to manage submission and peer-review. An industry-leading editorial system used by top journals around the world, Editorial Manager will allow Premier journals to take advantage of advanced functionality including integrated plagiarism-checking, reviewer discovery, automatic metadata population, ORCID single sign-on, and more. Premier journals will continue to be hosted on Digital Commons have access to dashboards. More information about the integration can be found here or by contacting product@bepress.com.

Digital Commons

• Digital Commons Journals now automatically include a sidebar link for Publication Ethics, making it even easier to follow journal publishing best practices.
  • For new journals, Publication Ethics Statement pages are automatically enabled, just like other Journal Information Pages. The sidebar link may be suppressed from the journal's Configuration page.
  • Existing journals can opt to enable the Publication Ethics Statement sidebar link and customize the related page from the journal's Configuration page.

Digital Commons

• PlumX Metrics integrated dashboards now available:
  • All dashboards include a PlumX Metrics tab
  • Now you can report on a variety of new metrics including citations
  • Monthly readership emails to admins and authors include links to new integrated dashboards
  • Access more information here or contact your consultant with questions

Digital Commons

• Announcing the release of Harvesting tool alpha release to enable IR administrators to harvest Scopus metadata directly into Digital Commons. Please contact your consultant to learn more.

Digital Commons

• Account creation and password reset improvements: An intermittent issue generating the wrong validation links for new Digital Commons accounts, or password resets, has been fixed.

Digital Commons

• Content out API v. 1 now available:
  • Pull Digital Commons data to institutional, departmental and faculty websites
  • Provides IR data for ingestion into faculty reporting systems such as Faculty 180 and Digital Measures
  • Allows for creative manipulation of data including text mining and metadata analysis
  • Contact your consultant to request a security token to get started
  • Access more information here

Digital Commons

• Batch Upload Improvements: An issue whereby batch uploads would sometimes result in two sets of the same records being published in the IR has been addressed. In addition, the error messages provided when a batch upload job fails are more descriptive, offering a more likely path towards successful troubleshooting.
  
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Digital Commons

• Accessibility Improvements: Works that are configured to have page numbers, headers, or footers automatically added to the PDF are now more accessible, by having accessibility tags associated with those elements. For more information about the accessibility of Digital Commons, visit the Digital Commons Accessibility Statement or contact your consultant.

Digital Commons

• Cloud Migration: Cloud migration of customer sites will be happening based on client location and is expected to take about one hour.
  • North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East: Weekdays 4pm-6pm, Pacific Time
  • Australia and Southeast Asia: Weekdays 10am-noon, Pacific Time
  During migration the Configuration, My Account, Upload Submission, author and reviewer interfaces, and Manage Submissions interfaces will not be accessible. Download functionality will not be impacted.
  
  

Digital Commons

• State-of-the-art security enhancements are now in place to protect against major cyber attacks, phishing attacks, and account and identity theft. While many of these enhancements are invisible to users, we have broadened the use of CAPTCHAS for account signups and logins. For more information, check out Safeguarding your Content with Digital Commons or contact your Consultant at dc-support@bepress.com.

Digital Commons

• Native multimedia streaming is now mobile-friendly. Natively streaming content can be played on mobile browsers for instant access across devices.
• Administrator and Author Readership Reports were not being reliably received. We’ve fixed this issue to ensure monthly delivery. You can look forward to timely updates on the impact of your work.

Digital Commons

• The Digital Commons Follow feature was not working properly. This issue has been repaired and users now receive email alerts for all content being followed.

Digital Commons

• We're happy to announce that Digital Commons now supports native streaming of multi-media files! For more information, check out the documentation or contact your Consultant at dc-support@bepress.com.

Digital Commons

• DC Network: Disciplines on article information pages were not resolving to the discipline-specific page in the DC Network. This has been fixed.

Expert Gallery Suite

• Institutions that want to link to their own privacy policy can now do so with a new configuration in the Settings tab.

Digital Commons

• Automated Digital Commons Dashboard emails: Our new Scheduled Share feature provides automatic and recurring dashboard links to share value and impact of your repository. More information here.
• Is your library working on a new privacy policy? A new configuration in Digital Commons lets you easily link to your institution’s own privacy policy in the footer. Learn more here.

Expert Gallery Suite

• Automated Impact Dashboard emails: Scheduled Share is also available for the Impact Dashboard!

Digital Commons

• PlumX Metrics in Digital Commons: article metadata pages now feature PlumX Metrics to provide you with many more ways to tell the story of your IR content. Learn more here.
  
• New look for download buttons: to go with PlumX Metrics on article metadata pages, we've given download buttons a clean, updated design.

Digital Commons

• Additions to the Digital Commons three-tiered taxonomy include:
  Arts and Humanities: Art and Design: Furniture Design
  Arts and Humanities: Art and Design: Glass Arts
  Arts and Humanities: Sign Languages
  Arts and Humanities: Sign Languages: American Sign Language
  Business: Business Analytics
  Education: Prison Education and Reentry
  Engineering: Geological Engineering
  Engineering: Mining Engineering: Explosives Engineering
• Improved social media sharing experience: Content shared via Digital Commons will now show thumbnails (where available) and more information at-a-glance about the record.

Digital Commons

• Major improvement for Multimedia: ISSUU and Kaltura are now official content providers for Embed.ly. ISSUU and Kaltura users will enjoy more flexibility in display order within Digital Commons. ISSUU and Kaltura may also be imported into Selected Works profiles and accessible via the Expert Gallery Suite. Talk to your Consultant about updating existing records!
• Accessibility improvement: article lists are now accessible, improving support to visitors using assistive technologies
• Digital Commons Network: we completed system enhancements to improve performance of the “Most Popular Institutions” lists and their notifications.

Expert Gallery Suite

• Multimedia improvement: in case you missed it, we’ll say it again! ISSUU and Kaltura are now official content providers for Embed.ly. This means you are now able to import this content from Digital Commons.
• Harvesting: learn how this can populate profiles painlessly!. Recent improvements include patches to reduce intermittent failures.
• About pages: capture Organizations and Roles, ORCID, and affiliations with more ease. More consistent behavior when saving changes to author information.

Expert Gallery Suite

• Harvest to profiles: Populate your faculty profiles without tears! The initial release of our harvesting tool helps reduce staff time and streamline library projects by automatically populating faculty profiles with publications metadata. Harvesting is currently available as an opt-in feature; contact your consultant to have it enabled. Learn more about harvesting to profiles here

Digital Commons

• Accessibility improvement: we’ve changed the background color of our monthly administrator Readership Report, improving the screenreader experience. Learn more about reports in Digital Commons.
• Image galleries: image titles (in addition to the images) now link to image’s information page, consistent with the behavior in book galleries.
• HTTPS: We’ve improved the user experience when engaging with our mobile navigation bar via https.
• Security improvement: we’ve rolled out a fix that only allows redirects implemented by a bepress suite product.

Expert Gallery Suite

• New About fields: Grants, and Professional Service and Memberships. Researchers want to convey their accomplishments, and administrators want a standardized way to report on this information. We’ve introduced these two new fields to the About tab: you can see them in action already. Plus, the fields are output to your Profiles Reports, so the Provost and Office of Research can easily identify new grant recipients.
• Improved layout of Organizations and Roles tab: Capturing Organizations is important to categorizing profiles. On the tab, we changed the Roles to a three-column layout so administrators can view both Roles and Organizations at a glance.

Digital Commons

• Accessibility improvement: We’ve updated tracking gifs to include new alt attributes, improving the screenreader experience.
• Additions to the Digital Commons three‐tiered taxonomy of academic disciplines include
  Arts and Humanities: Language Interpretation and Translation
  Arts and Humanities: Philosophy: Applied Ethics
  Social and Behavioral Sciences: Library and Information Science: Law Librarianship

Learn more about using disciplines, and download the complete list.

Expert Gallery Suite

• Improved sorting by author! In your Author Gallery and your Expert Galleries, expect even the authors with hyphenated last names to appear in correct order.
• Co-authors, activate: when a work with multiple authors is added, accounts for co-authors are automatically activated, no confirmation step required.
• Importing enhancement: if an author’s name has multiple spellings, the import preview displays only one spelling for clarity

Digital Commons

• Display content in your order! By popular request, administrators have a SIXTH sort option: entire publication date. To apply this or another sort option, visit the Configuration page of the collection. Available to series, ETD series, galleries, and book galleries.
• Streaming enhancement: We enhanced JW Player support to automatically determine the appropriate mode for the session.
• Content Inventory improvement: We resolved an error that prevented reporting on communities that had been Grouped to other communities.
• bepress Archive: We added article states (except deleted) to the metadata.xml file that is included with each record in the bepress Archive. This will be present in content published or revised since August 22, 2017. We do plan to tackle the identification of deleted content as well.

Expert Gallery Suite

• Easier author disambiguation via Profiles Tab: administrators can scan the tab’s Email column to find the email address that was associated with the profile during setup.
• New branded administrator interface: the design now matches your profiles for greater cohesion and easier recognition.
• Updated look for https://works.bepress.com/: the design matches and refers visitors to additional resources found on https://www.bepress.com/products/expert-gallery-suite/.

Digital Commons

• Faster slideshows: Visitors and classroom audiences will observe faster load times and an improved user experience while viewing large collections. Learn more about image galleries and slideshows.

Expert Gallery Suite

• Build profiles with their Organizations: to make your Expert Gallery even more valuable and to make best use of the coming harvesting tool, you can now save a person’s Organization when you build the profile.
• Account creation: missed the initial account activation email? No problem! Use the Create Account button and enter your email again to receive a second copy. Improvements to “forgot password” steps, too.

Expert Gallery Suite

• New! Profiles Reports! You can now generate a report on profile information such as who has a photo posted, which positions your faculty have held, and how many published works are included on each profile. Use the report to determine where you need to fill in gaps or to let administration know which honors and awards faculty have won. From the administrative interface for the Expert Gallery Suite, go to the Reports tab, and click on “Generate Profiles Report.” Would you like more information? See our documentation or contact your consultant at dc-support@bepress.com!

Digital Commons

• Content Carousels and Slideshows: Rotating images now link to the image’s record so visitors can view the full details, pan/zoom, and browse related images. Learn more about Content Carousels and slideshows.
• Image galleries: we are speeding up pan/zoom! Thanks for your patience, and you should see improvements over the next few weeks. Learn more about image galleries.
• Large files: we are also making improvements to help increase the speed when uploading large files.
• “Update site” links: the next time you update, you’ll see the name of the link reflects the current level of your repository! No more questions over whether you are updating an article, a series, or a journal.
• Google Scholar: per Google Scholar’s request, we have adjusted the meta tags to improve the quality of indexing.

Expert Gallery Suite

• 3-2-1-Contact: to make it even easier for visitors to contact authors, we have added the “contact” button to top of each work’s page. Learn how to make the most of contact buttons on your profiles.
• Notification Center: the center loads more quickly for administrators with many notifications. Max notifications is 100.
• "SelectedWorks of None" no more! We resolved an error mysteriously impacting several profiles so that they now display the profile’s name, not “none,” in the header.
• Additional improvements: administrators should see more even performance of the Download and Link buttons. The Download button should only appear on works with full texts, and the Link button should open in a new window.
• Import SelectedWorks: check out the new progress indicator when you import to your repository from SelectedWorks profiles!

Digital Commons

• Permissions improvement: work more independently! Using the new Administrator Management tool, site-level administrators can grant additional permissions to selected colleagues. Save time by giving journal editors the ability to create volumes and issues and giving conference organizers the ability to create tracks and themes on their own.
• Thumbnails in book galleries: back to normal! We resolved a temporary issue affecting the automatic generation of thumbnails. All affected thumbnails are back to normal.

Expert Gallery Suite

• Importing from Digital Commons: we addressed two issues, helping ensure that all of an author's results appear as potential works to import.
• Search improvements: visitors will find that searches within and across profiles are more performant, improving the user experience.
• Institutional logos on cover pages: we resolved an issue that caused some changes to stall. Using the Settings tab, administrators can now update their institutional logo at any time. See an example from Western University!

Digital Commons

• Batch improvement: smoother revisions to author data. Tip: batch revise earlier collections to add author email addresses so authors can receive automatic monthly readership reports

Digital Commons

• Dashboard improvement: do you know how many reports you can run? Now reports are also supported for collections with content deleted. Learn more about running reports using your Digital Commons dashboard.

Expert Gallery Suite

• Streaming media: After upgrading Digital Commons to support the latest version of JW Player, we are now upgrading JW Player in the Expert Gallery Suite as well. The upgrade includes support for captions (where provided) and a wider array of file types. Check out this recent debate using the newest JW Player.
• Smoother account and profile creation: we rolled out a fix that resolved intermittent timeouts. Thanks for your patience!

Digital Commons

• Automatic notifications of new features and fixes: the Product Updates page supports an RSS feed so administrators can stay up to date on new development withinDigital Commons, the Dashboards, and the Expert Gallery Suite.
• Access-controlled content: Forwarded IP addresses now supported. Learn more about access controls in Digital Commons.

Expert Gallery Suite

• Product Updates via RSS: it’s so good we’ll say it again. The new RSS button delivers the development news to your favorite feed (and email, in some cases). Get fed all the updates!
• Embedded galleries with more display flexibility:Need to embed a single card on a page, no search box? Need to embed a search box, no cards? Need to modify the header text or suppress it altogether? Have it your way! Galleries can now be embedded with or without the header text, search bar, and profile cards. See Embedding Your Expert Gallery for more info.

Expert Gallery Suite:

We’ve made some improvements to search and indexing for profiles:

• Works of hidden profiles will no longer appear in search results.
• Withdrawn works will no longer be included in the DC Network

Expert Gallery Suite:

• RSS: A new blue RSS button is visible on all profiles, providing a simple means to receive feeds of recently added works and embed them on external sites.
• User Guide update: With the launch of our new website, our resources have moved! To make sure you can still find what you need, we changed both links to the User Guide on works.bepress.com to point to the appropriate Author resources on the new website.
• Want to learn more about the new Contact Button and Membership Badges? This and additional resources for administrators are continually added to the new website to help make the most of the Expert Gallery Suite.

Digital Commons:

• New bepress Content Carousel extended to all structures: The site-level bepress Content Carousel is now available to all communities and publications in Digital Commons. The carousel enhances the functionality of the previous slideshow and improves the reliability because it is in-house and independent of the Google API that recently deprecated. Consulting Services is manually converting any deprecated slideshows to the new carousel for you. Learn more about Content Carousels, slideshows, and more by visiting the new website.
• LDAP fix: Some users observed a false error when logging in their first time. This has been resolved.

Digital Commons:

• Content Inventory: With this brand-new tool you can generate a comprehensive metadata report at every level of your site. You can also generate a report which tells you the amount of published content in each publication. No more forgetting which publications you want to fill out or hide away until they’re ready for the public! Accessible via the Configuration tab.
• JW Player upgrade: We’ve upgraded our version of JW Player, including support for closed captions.
• SSL (HTTPS) for all repositories: It’s a bright, secure, world. Over the next few weeks, all repositories will be using HTTPS. Bonus: if you’ve been managing the implementation of SSL for your repository, those days are over. We’ll take it from here.
• Batch revisions: We don’t speak Epoch and presume you don’t either. System-generated spreadsheets will no longer show datestamps in Epoch time.
• Footer links: We have updated our footers to provide visitors easy access to bepress’ Privacy and Copyright pages.

Expert Gallery Suite:

• Badges to highlight potential media contacts, collaborators, and mentors: Administrators can now designate profiles with badges that identify individuals as potential media contacts, collaborators, and/or mentors. Badges will link to a gallery of all members of that group. See the badge on the right of this profile: https://works.bepress.com/vania-coelho/
• Contact button: Profiles have a contact button so that it is easier for visitors to contact profile owners about their work. An inquiry form will capture and relay messages to the profile owner. The messages can also be sent to administrators and other offices on campus, such as Media Relations. See the button on the left of this profile: https://works.bepress.com/roland_cooper/
• Galleries based on facets: Galleries exist for facets like organization, position, or research interest and can be embedded on external sites.
• Administrator Interface: For some profiles, the SW Gallery and Expert Gallery column checkboxes were missing; they have been found!
• PDF conversions and cover pages: Improved reliability of PDF conversions (from .doc and .docx formats) and of cover page stamping.
• Imported metadata-only records: Better consistency importing metadata-only records, so that their links to external sites are maintained after import. No more .htm links!
• Password creation: occasional 404 error after resetting a password has been fixed.

Expert Gallery Suite:

• “Embed this gallery” feature: This link has been hidden on mobile devices to prevent accidental tapping when trying to trigger the facet bar.
• Introductory text prompt: Now visible only to profile owner, not visitors
• “Read more” button: Displays more consistently across profiles.

Digital Commons:

Changes to the Digital Commons three‐tiered taxonomy of academic disciplines include:

Modified:
Arts and Humanities: Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies: Native American Studies
Has become
Arts and Humanities: Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies: Indigenous Studies

Any submissions with a modified discipline were migrated to the new term.

Dashboards:

Author Dashboard Improvements: Authors will enjoy access to new features, previously only accessed by administrators:

• More powerful date selector
• Downloads graph with option to show Additional Files
• Metadata hits graph
• Countries map and table
• Share the Dashboard functionality
• Institutional branding for authors with institutionally branded SelectedWorks profiles
• Consolidated “duplicates: articles collected from DC/SW that point to the same full text version will be consolidated in the Works table.
• Layout changes to improve navigation: unifying the experience across all dashboards
• Icon bar used in place of sidebar (across all dashboards)
• Code enhancements: the code base has been consolidated across the Author Dashboard, the Digital Commons Dashboard, and the Impact Dashboard. Administrators will have a more consistent experience, navigating the dashboards, and users will see relevant features and fixes released simultaneously to dashboards in future.

Expert Gallery Suite:

• Facets on mobile devices: On smaller screens and mobile devices, there is now a button on the Expert Gallery search bar that pops out the facets so visitors can narrow searches more easily.
• Trending Experts: Trending options will appear only if trending profiles are available
• Better hover tips = better UI. In the administrator interface, expect to see human-readable hover text, e.g., over the Expert Gallery column, to speed administrators to the tools they need.

Digital Commons:

• Author Gallery design: Site-level author galleries have a new look, more aligned with your new Expert Gallery Suite, for a more seamless user experience.
• Real-time updates for the Author Gallery: When administrators make their selections in the SelectedWorks Administrator Interface, the site-level Author Gallery will update in real-time.

Digital Commons:

• bepress Archive: We are now including a checksum for metadata.xml files in the bepress Archive manifest. Going forward, all files in your bepress Archive will have a checksum included in the manifest.
• Supplemental content: Administrators will find it at a glance using the new Additional Files column (available via the Manage Submissions preferences) or find them present on the Submission Details pages
• OAI: ListMetadataFormats output now includes metadata prefixes qdc and dcq
• Batch upload: XML import schema no longer references a 'type' field
• Peer-review: Text improvements to the Reviewer Upload Form and emails to reviewers of single and double-blind journals
• Journal cover page enhancement: PDF cover pages will show blurbs only when the submission is accepted or published
• Creative Commons: Alt-text is now included for Creative Commons licenses
• Accessibility improvement 1: "Skip to main content" link is now visible to screen readers
• Accessibility improvement 2: Portal sidebar images are now generated with HTML

Expert Gallery Suite:

• ORCID: Authors who have ORCID ids can now capture and display them as a clickable link on their profiles.
• Embed an Expert Gallery: Expert Galleries based on facets and searches are now embeddable! Simply choose your parameters and then click on “embed this gallery” just below the search box. The system will generate a customized embed code that you can then copy and paste onto any webpage.