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Add more fields to 'reports' options
It seems reasonable that any field related to the given ETD should be available to reports, but personally, abstracts and admin notes would be the fields I would find most useful.
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Add field to indicate committee member role
Add an additional field to the Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair and Committee Members forms to indicate the exact role of each Committee Member
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Add authenticated ORCID iD functionality to ETD Administrator
Currently, the form field for ORCID requires manual entry of an ORCID iD. This leaves room for error and typos, and does not allow for transfer of data between ORCID and the ETD system.
ProQuest should build in an option for institutions to either use the Public or Member ORCID API to gather authenticated ORCID iDs along with the ETD submissions, thereby ensuring that the ORCID iDs collected are accurate.
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Info in notification emails to etd admin administrators
ETD school admin has requested that, in the email notifying them of specific publications, we include the name of the ETD site to which it was submitted. In the case of schools with multiple sites (ie, sites for different colleges/departments), this would be helpful to organize submissions.
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Adding additional Decision Statuses to Register Decision function
It would be verify helpful to have more options that "Minor Revisions Required", "Major Revisions Required", and "Accept" as the Decision options. Having at least one option such as "ProQuest requirement complete; Additional requirements pending" is needed. Students quite often have requirements outside of the ProQuest system that must be completed before we can finalize their dissertation in the ProQuest system but they have already completed the revisions in ProQuest. When students see "Minor Revisions Requested" as the status on their already revised dissertation, it is extremely confusing to them.
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Allow deletion of records of certain status
It's not uncommon for students to stop a submission in progress, and then when they return, start a new submission rather than continue the old one. It's also not uncommon, at my institution, for students to submit items that actually are not theses/dissertations (we have a different submission mechanism for those). Being able to completely delete these records (a check-box validation could be included) would be very handy.
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4 votes
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Checklist Page-Check All Option
On the checklist page, is it possible to add a "Check All" box option at the top of the page. It is time consuming and annoying to have to individually check off 25 boxes (for our particular list).
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ETD Author Writing Toolkit
Add support for, or integration with, an author tool that would allow me to focus on creating quality content, and worry less about formatting.
- provide base formatting templates, including customer "sanctioned" versions for my university
- support for committed reviews of drafts
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Include the Publication Number in a submission's XML data
Emily Kilcer ekilcer@albany.edu from the SUNY University at Albany has requested that a submission's Dissertation/thesis number be included in the XML file we deliver to their institutional repository. They need a number/identifier that ties all their systems together. Between the ProQuest database, their Alma catalog and their repository, the first two have the Dissertation/thesis number associated with their content but they don't have it in their institutional repository.
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Better research. Better learning. Better insights.4 votes -
readers
The second reader was Mike Stallard, PhD. The external reader was Mark Saucy, PhD.
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Add a a saved default feature in the "Fields to include in the report" section for running reports.
I would like to be able create a saved configuration option in the report section, so that I don’t need to select the fields I need each time I run a report
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Create a Student Checklist
In addition to the checklist that admins use, it would be nice for the admin to be able to create a student checklist that the student must check off before a thesis/dissertation can be submitted for review.
For example, our students must have included a signed title page in the manuscript, or they must have included a signed/dated institutional library release, etc. This “actionable” checklist can be a part of submission requirements that must be checked off by the student before the student is allowed to submit the manuscript for review. This will cut down on a lot of “decision”…
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Frequently Used Phrases
Many times, I find myself typing out the same formatting guidelines many, many times when sending revision information to students. It would be great if we could save commonly used text (including hyperlinks/images) that we could quickly insert into the email template.
Even better would be to have the ability to save this text as rich text, so that we had a fully pre-formatted statement saved that we can then use without having to reformat it once it is inserted into the template.
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Allow Checklist to be Viewed by Students
Currently, there is a “View Checklist”, which is only visible by an admin. I have to complete this checklist before I can “Accept” a dissertation for publishing. It would be nice to have this checklist also student-facing. The student shouldn’t be able to make edits, but should be visible for viewing purposes, so they can see what information I need and what has been collected (or completed) so far. If institutions do not want the students to see their internal checklist, they should have the option (under “Manage Site”) to simply turn it off.
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4 votes
We are planning enhancements to embargo details that will include the ability to configure embargo reasons as an option.
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Requests to add Additional Subject Categories
Requests that “Leadership Studies” be added to the Subject Headings list under Business or Social Sciences
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Customize embargo reasons in drop-down menu
As an ETD administrator for my institution I would like to be able to create embargo reasons for my IR that align with the standard reasons we recognize at our institution. In the dropdown "reasons" menu, it would be useful to be able to customize this list of reasons.
7 votesFeatures to manage embargo settings are being prioritized for our ETD Admin roadmap
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Allow note/s to be added to reports
There's information that would be easy to get during the evaluation/approval process, that you need later on, so you need to look it up again. Being able to export the notes field, or better yet, adding one or more notes fields specifically for reporting purposes, would be so helpful.
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Increase active area of "View all admin notes" link
For a number of years, going back to the days when Marlene Coles was with ProQuest, I kept asking that the active area for the link "View all admin notes" (in the 'Admin notes: ' box ) be made larger. As it is, the text is small, the link is small and you have to VERY CAREFULLY get the mouse on the active area of the link to be able to click it. We make extensive use of the 'Admin notes:' and I spend half my time trying to click the link. I don't expect anything to be done, but…
4 votes
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