Release 5.15.0

04 March 2019 by Aaron Ballagh in Notices, Release Notes

Release 5.15.0

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)

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