Scholar@UC 1.8 includes new feature and several bug fixes
The latest version of Scholar@UC displays user email addresses when searching for users to add as an editor or group member. This will avoid confusion if there happens to be more than one user with the same name. Several minor bug fixes are also included.
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Scholar 1.7 improves mobile display, shows name of work submitter, and enhances DOI handling based on access rights.
With Scholar@UC 1.7 we have deployed various display improvements for mobile users. We have also adjusted the handling of Document Object Identifiers (DOIs) for embargoed and private works, so that DOIs are held in reserve until a work is made public, at which time the DOI becomes public. (You can read more about DOIs and access rights on the Scholar@UC FAQ.) The name of a submitter of a work is now shown with the work metadata, with a link to the submitter’s Scholar@UC profile page.
Other changes include: Read more ›
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Scholar@UC 1.6 has an enhanced image experience and a new video work type.
With the Scholar@UC 1.6, we have enhanced the user’s image experience with the OpenSeaDragon viewer. This viewer allows zooming, panning, and full screen display of images, including JP2. Take a look at an image from John Wallrodt’s The Durrës Regional Archaeological Project (DRAP): https://scholar.uc.edu/works/images/j96021256
Scholar@UC also supports video deposits with a new work type and metadata targeted towards this type of material. This is the first step towards a larger video experience.
The other changes with version 1.6 are:
- Removed the contact form captcha requirement for logged in users.
- Added the ability to assign read-only permissions to individuals or to a group.
- Added a new work type for video content.
- Added an embedded image viewer.
- Bug fixes
- Editor rights from additional editors are now also granted to linked resources.
- Required form fields no longer accept only space characters as valid content.
- Users are now properly hidden until they own a work.
- All form fields now reject content that includes HTML script tags.
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Scholar@UC Open for Self-Submissions
scholar@uc
UC Libraries invites faculty and researchers to submit their research, creative and scholarly works to Scholar@UC, the university’s cutting-edge digital repository.
A digital repository makes accessible, enables re-use, stores, organizes and preserves the full range of an institution’s intellectual output, including all formats of scholarly, historical and research materials. Faculty and researchers can use Scholar@UC to collect their work in one location and create an Internet-enabled, durable and citable record of their papers, presentations, publications, data sets or other scholarly creations. With sponsorship from a faculty member, undergraduate and graduate students may also contribute their academic output, such as capstone projects, senior design projects, research data and other creative and scholarly works. Read more ›
Scholar@UC 1.5 sorts lists of collections by title
Scholar@UC now sorts users’ lists of collections by title. Other accessibility and security fixes are also included.
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Scholar@UC 1.4 adds student welcome page and more help
Scholar@UC 1.4 now shows a welcome page that is customized for students when they log in to https://scholar.uc.edu using their UC central login. Additional help dialogs have also been added to the file edit/rollback/delete/download actions.
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Scholar@UC 1.3 Release
1.3.0 12/04/2015
- Updated text on the Welcome page and Collection Policy page
- Added new styling to the upload buttons for works, files, collection images, and profile images
- The My Works screen now only lists content that is owned by the user
- Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug that caused search terms to be lost when selecting a facet
- Fixed a bug that caused sort options to be lost when moving to the next page of search results
- Fixed a bug that required users to edit and save their profile page before adding sections to their profile
- Fixed a bug that allowed a user’s delegate’s delegates to edit the user’s works
- Fixed a bug that prevented the depositor of a work from being removed as an editor of the work
- Fixed a bug that generated an error when certain types of files with Additional Status Messages were displayed
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How Early Adopter Feedback Drives Scholar@UC Development
Scholar@UC’s development is largely informed by the feedback we get from our Early Adopters. Early Adopters are the UC faculty members who are making the earliest use of Scholar@UC and providing valuable insights to our Early Adopter Working Group on issues related to submission, description, and sharing within the repository.
So what happens to this feedback once the Early Adopter Working Group receives it? It is passed on to the Use Cases Working Group, and the feedback is transformed into a list of recommendations for the development team behind Scholar@UC (these are alternately referred to as use cases or user stories — the two are often used interchangeably even though there have been attempts to articulate the differences between the two). The Use Cases Working Group issues use cases similar to the following (all can be viewed here):
As a: repository submitter
I want: the input form to visually flag which specific fields need to be filled out if I submit an incomplete record
So that: I don’t have to click on each field to see if it is required
Done looks like: indication next to required fields such as “error” or “required” in red if incomplete record is submitted
The Development Team then takes these various Early Adopter cases into consideration to prioritize what features to work on next. In the last several months, the following issues have been addressed, based on the feedback from our Early Adopters:
- Improving and redesigning the the submission form
- A new Help page
- Allowing upload of multiple files from the user’s local desktop (multiple file upload was already available through cloud services, including Box, Dropbox and Google Drive)
- Ability to filter search results by subject, discipline, etc.
- Display of a permalink in the work record
- Creating automated email communications for an expiring embargo
The Development Team continues to work on the following issues, brought forward due to Early Adopter feedback:
- Developing a “license picker” for those who want to add a Creative Commons license to their work
- Determining a maximum file size for upload
- Zotero integration
- Building a “progress indicator” to display how much remaining time is left when uploading a large file
If you are currently using Scholar@UC and have ideas for functionality you would like to see in the future, please contact Eira Tansey, chair of the Use Cases Working Group.