New search by ORCID author/inventor, improved export functionality and bug fixes.
Improvements/Changes:
- Added new search functionality to scholarly and patent search pages to allow users to:
- look up an ORCID persistent digital identifier or an author/inventors’ name in the ORCID public registry, and
- select that ORCID author/inventor ID and run a search in the lens to retrieve works/patents that are publicly accessible in the selected ORCID profile.
- Added CORE identifiers to scholarly work records and filter functionality for scholarly works with CORE identifiers.
- Added support for lowercase check digit in Lens ID.
Fixes:
- Scholarly export in CSV format for scholarly works with long author lists
- Scholarly export in RIS and BibTex formats for works with unknown document type (user’s feedback)
- Export functionality for citing patents (user’s feedback)
- Export functionality from collection page in user’s work area
- Filtering authors with accents in their name does not work (user’s feedback)
- The search bar states for patents, scholarly works and collections
- Reset password function
- Navigating from citing patents back to scholarly works in scholarly collections
- ORCID sync issue associated with claiming inventorship of patents (user’s feedback)
Interested in helping us improve?
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