ELUNA and IGeLU Esploro product working groups have been using the enhancement process for the past 2 years to work with Ex Libris/Clarivate to deliver needed functionality selected by the member communities.
In the first vote in 2024, five enhancements were voted on and have been implemented (“Delivered” in the chart) (for details, see the blog post Esploro – First Enhancement Vote results or the Esploro Accepted and Delivered Enhancements in CERV)
- Make collections searchable (January 2025)
- Ability to shift a researcher from creator to contributor (February 2025)
- Duplicate an existing record for new record edit (February 2025)
- Ability to export Search results from the Research Portal (February 2025)
- Improve deposit forms (July 2025)
The four enhancements from 2025 are in process (“Accepted” in the chart)
- Improve management of Additional subjects/keywords both in the back office and the Portal input (Portal in November 2025)
- More asset types
- Ability to harvest OA full-text files or links
- Researcher’s submission of Media Mentions
The chart also shows 36 “Archived” items that did not receive enough votes in previous years. However, there are some great ideas that could definitely be resubmitted (copy the text for a new submission).
The eight “Non Votable” items are for functionality already in Esploro or which was due very soon. (If we had any merged requests, they would appear here as well. All of these have brief explanations in the “Reject reason” field in the Enhancements Portal.
