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Following on from our February 2024 newsletter, the product development team is busy working on a number of areas to improve user experience.   One of these areas is around the existing interoperability with CRIS (Current Research Information System) to allow for the transfer of publication information. Currently, the publication records need to ind

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At the beginning of the year, we started to adopt a new way of planning the product roadmap. We’re now using an industry-standard planning methodology called SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) with the aim of giving us more confidence in our roadmap plans, and to ensure a more joined-up approach across the whole company.   So far we’ve run two SAFe plann

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Chief Data Analyst Gavin Reddick hosted a webinar half way through the 2022 UK Multi Funder Submission Period to illustrate the levels of activity in the 2022 period agains the previous year’s activity on the Researchfish platform. This presentation covers: An overview of the 2022 UK Multi-Funder submission period activity so far Implications of wha

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The below communication was sent to all Funders who are subscribers of Researchfish, on 30th April 2019. If you did not receive this communication please contact support@researchfish.com to be added to our contacts. Dear Funder, As you know, the Researchfish system enables funders to set up mandatory additional questions, that allows funders to coll

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Updates & Feedback from 2018 At the end of the 2018 multi-funder data gathering period, upon completing their submission, award holders were asked to participate in a short survey to help us at Research Fish to identify and prioritise our efforts into delivering improvements to the platform. Over 6,000 responses were received and we divided up t

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PDF of the communication that was sent out to RO's and Funders advising of the different support available http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=750097ce853e9fc9036b4e1df&id=f8c652f95a Attachments:  Attachment Size Researchfish New User Interface.pdf 282.64 KB

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Communication to RO's and Funders informing the forthcoming January workshops locations, dates and contacts. Can also be seen from link below: http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=750097ce853e9fc9036b4e1df&id=78d59b4fd7 Attachments:  Attachment Size Researchfish January Workshops info 603.7 KB

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PDF of Flyer that has been produced to be distributed to PI's and RO's in the January 2017 Workshops Attachments:  Attachment Size New UI Flyer 2017 Workshops 760.08 KB

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Document outlining the changes made during 2016 to the questions used for the Common Outcomes types, including information on the background and reasoning for each. Attachments:  Attachment Size Researchfish Common Outcomes Question Set Changes 2016 327.97 KB

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Note: this section is only applicable to Funding and Research Organisations aligning with the upcoming Danish and UK Multi-Funder Submission Periods.   2025 UK Multi-Funder Submission Period Dates ConfirmedUKRI recently announced their next UK Multi-Funder submission period will run from 3  February 2025 until 16:00 on 13 March 2025.  Click here for

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Release date:  Friday 5 September 2025   Version: P15.03   Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release.   Fixed: addressed an issue which would sometimes display an incorrect value for the number of attributions of an outcome type to an award.   Fixed: addressed an issue that meant that Collaborator subforms

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Release date:  Thursday 21 August 2025   Version: P15.02   Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release.   Added: Researchfish now supports multi-factor authentication (MFA). Platform users can enable this for their own accounts; and organisations are able to enforce MFA for accounts for their staff (if this

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Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release.   Added: A long-running activity to "containerise" Researchfish has been completed. This important infrastructure work will make the platform more reliable and easier to update, and will reduce downtime and improve security. Containerisation improves the ability f

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Release date:  Wednesday 16 June 2025   Version: P14.05   Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release.   Improved: changes to stay current with changes to the PubMed Publication Type mapping.   Fixed: fixed a couple of minor issues regarding editing of existing Partner sub-records within Collaboration and Pa

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Release date:  Thursday 5 June 2025   Version: P14.04   Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release.   Improved: the workflow for the Further Funding record creation process has been updated, to address confusions seen in user research. Researchers will first find their funding organisation: if we hold grant

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Release Date:  Thursday 6 June, 2025 Version:  P14.03 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Fixed: addressed an issue that meant that the Additional Question data in an awards document downloaded by a Research Organisation could be incorrect. Fixed: addressed an issue that meant that an awards documen

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Release Date:  Friday, 23 May, 2025 Version:  P14.02 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: UX improvements to the order of publication search providers. Improved: better handling of duplicate ISBN records. Note: As with many sprints, there is development work in this sprint that has not yet

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Release Date:  Friday, 9 May, 2025 Version:  P14.01 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: added validation to the date fields when configuring the Activity page to use a custom date range; this will stop invalid dates being entered into these fields, which could cause the page to not load pr

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Release Date:  Thursday, 24 April, 2025 Version:  P13.06 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: completed the initial integration with HelpJuice, a specialist Knowledge Base platform, which now holds core Researchfish documentation and KB content. Improved: updating the product branding on email

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Release Date:  Thursday, 3 April, 2025 Version:  P13.05 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: applied updates to some of the core infrastructure needed to run the platform. Fixed: addressed an intermittent issue that caused downloads to not be accessible. Fixed: addressed an intermittent iss

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Release Date:  Friday, 21 March, 2025 Version:  P13.04 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Body: (List items in order: Added, Improved, Fixed) Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: improved the “In Submission” notification, to indicate when

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Release Date:  Friday, 7 March, 2025 Version:  P13.03 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: added support for alternative publication dates for book chapter records returned via CrossRef search. Improved: the “bypass skip” accessibility mechanism now better centres the core page content. Improv

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Release Date:  Thursday, 20 February, 2025 Version:  P13.02 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: when viewing an outcome listing table, the header row of the table is now ‘sticky’, meaning that it will not scroll out of view if the table is scrolled. Improved: improved accessibility support

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Release Date:  Thursday, 6 February, 2025 Version:  P13.01 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: added support for a new client support email address Added: where a researcher has linked their ORCID account to their Researchfish account, and provided the appropriate permissions, it is now possi

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Release Date:  Thursday, 30 January, 2025 Version:  P12.06 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: added the “UKSA Additional Questions” Additional Question to the platform Added: added the “STFC Engagement Activities” Additional Question to the platform Added: ensured that the new year (2025) is

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Release Date:  Friday, 10 January, 2025 Version:  P12.05 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: if the funder has requested discouraging reporting of Awards and Recognition outcomes, the notification panel is now triggered by an attempt to add an outcome, not by the viewing of outcomes. Impro

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Release Date:  Thursday, 19 December, 2024 Version:  P12.04 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: integration with an improved cookie compliance module, to give users more control over cookies (note there is further configuration to do, before enabling this in production). Added: integration wi

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Release Date:  Thursday, 5 December, 2024 Version:  P12.03 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: made the “Patient and Public Involvement” Additional Question available to an additional funder. Added: added a new UI element, to help make the need to submit data (after data entry) even clearer t

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Release Date:  Friday, 22 November, 2024 Version:  P12.02 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: as part of preparations for the Danish and UK Multi-funder Submission Periods, we’ve carried out further updates to the funding dataset hosted on the Researchfish platform, which supports the crea

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Release Date:  Monday, 11 November, 2024 Version:  P12.01 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: it is now possible to edit collaborator sub-records, within a Collaboration and Partnership outcome. Improved: as part of preparations for the Danish and UK Multi-funder Submission Periods, we’ve upd

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Release Date:  Friday, 25 October, 2024 Version:  P11.06 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: the legacy GRID dataset has been replaced by ROR (https://ror.org/), as a registry of persistent identifiers for research organisations. These changes are reflected in the User Interface, and in data

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Release Date:  Thursday, 3 October, 2024 Version:  P11.05 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: introduction of Researcher Records, an improvement to our CRIS integration capabilities. As part of this, the RO interoperability uploader has been extended to allow for upload of publication and oth

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Release Date:  Thursday, 19 September, 2024 Version:  P11.04 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: support for searching Datacite for publications. As with other publication search options, you can search with a persistent ID (a Datacite DOI) or with other metadata (eg, title, author, etc). Fix

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Release Date:  Friday, 6 September, 2024 Version:  P11.03 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: extended the Interoperability Uploader, so that other locations named on the award (e.g., the Research Organisations of other research team members) can upload outcomes the award. Added: made the “Pa

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Release Date:  Friday, 23 August, 2024 Version:  P11.02 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: The interoperability uploader now supports Datacite DOIs. This supports the following Datacite outcome types:- Publications (stored as “Publication” outcomes, sub-type “Journal Article / Review”)- Audi

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 7 August, 2024 Version:  P11.01 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: updated the Additional Questions User Guide for Funding Administrators. Improved: the harvesting of publications via Datacite DOIs is now better able to handle the situation where the metadata isn

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Release Date:  Thursday, 25 July, 2024 Version:  P10.06 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: improved integration with PlumX: where a publication has been cited in policy or patent documents, information about this is made available in exports and via Snowflake. Added: the ORCID harvest has be

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 10 July, 2024 Version:  P10.05 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: added support for PlumX data to be included in exports and SnowFlake data. Where a PlumX includes information about policy or patent citations for a publication, the data will include the numbers of s

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Release Date:  Thursday, 4 July, 2024 Version:  P10.04 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: updated the API documentation hosted on the platform. Fixed: addressed an issue where not all funders could be added as co-funders of an award. Fixed: updated the link to help researchers understand

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Release Date:  Tuesday, 11 June, 2024 Version:  P10.03 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: co-funding awards are now shown in awards search; the co-funder is able to view the awards, but not edit them. Improved: further improvements to the process that detects and deletes duplicate publicatio

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 22 May, 2024 Version:  P10.02 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: updates to the Researchfish wordmark and copyright notices. Improved: improved the handling of Scopus IDs in the publication hierarchy refresh process. Fixed: addressed issues with the dashboard not

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Release Date:  Friday, 10 May, 2024 Version:  P10.01 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: Datacite and Scopus have been added to the publication hierarchy refresh process. Improved: the Further Funding search mechanism now returns an improved list of matches. Note: As with many sprints, there

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Release Date:  Monday, 29 April, 2024 Version:  P09.06 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: Grant DOIs are now included in awards exports. Improved: improved handling of submissions with many 1,000’s of outcomes. Improved: updated the Question Set download document, to remove the deprecated “O

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Release Date:  Tuesday, 9 April, 2024 Version:  P09.05 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: added clarification to our Terms of Use regarding the privacy policy and how we use your data. Improved: completed work to allow for the Scopus harvest to be run again in the future. Improved: made s

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Release Date:  Friday, 22 March, 2024 Version:  P09.04 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Fixed: addressed an issue that was stopping funders from applying extensions to awards in submission in bulk. Fixed: addressed an issue where short names were not appearing in Word exports for the “Career Trac

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Release Date:  Thursday, 7 March, 2024 Version:  P09.03 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: harvested publication records from Scopus where there is an identified funder and grant award, to help reduce the reporting burden and improve data quality. Improved: the Further Funding search now

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Release Date:  Thursday, 22 February, 2024 Version:  P09.02 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: harvested publication records from Scopus for researchers with a Scopus Author ID associated with their account, to help reduce the reporting burden and improve data quality. Improved: addressed

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Release Date:  Thursday, 8 February, 2024 Version:  P09.01 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: added a new “Human Resources” Additional Question Improved: harvested publication records from OpenAIRE and Datacite, to help reduce the reporting burden and improve data quality. Improved: we have

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Release Date:  Tuesday, 16 January, 2024 Version:  P08.06 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: added a new “Postdoctoral Qualification Theses Completed” Additional Question Added: added a new “Deviations from the original plan” Additional Question Added: added a new “UKSA Additional Questions”

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Release Date:  Monday, 8 January, 2024 Version:  P08.05 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: made changes to the "Career Tracker" Additional Question Fixed: addressed an issue where the funder guidance text wasn't be displayed by default on the Award Details page. Fixed: addressed an issue

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 20 December, 2023 Version:  P08.04 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: we have completed the initial work, to allow for Grant DOIs to be stored as additional metadata for awards.  Improved: we’ve improved the process to avoid creating duplicate publication records wh

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Release Date:  Thursday, 7 December, 2023 Version:  P08.03 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Body: (List items in order: Added, Improved, Fixed) Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: added a new “Important Outcomes” Additional Question Added:

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Release Date:  Thursday, 23 November, 2023 Version:  P08.02 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: release of a new “Education and Professional Training” Additional Question for Novo Nordisk Fonden. Added: the existing “Cross Funder Common PPI” Additional Question is now available to more of the

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Release Date:  Monday, 13 November, 2023 Version:  P08.01 Added: Following consultation with stakeholders "Other Outputs/Outcomes" has been removed from the common question set that is used in Researchfish. Analysis of the data showed that most outcomes previously entered here should have been recorded in one of the standard outcome types, or omitte

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Release Date:  Thursday, 26 October, 2023 Version:  P07.06 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: initial work to introduce support for co-funders: it’s now possible to add information about co-funders to awards via the UI. Improved: the terminology used during the submission process has been up

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Release Date:  Thursday, 5 October, 2023 Version:  P07.05 Added: improved the workflow associated with submission, by ensuring that the action buttons are always visible. Improved: Researchfish has transitioned to be covered by the Elsevier Privacy Policy. Improved: updated the Researchfish Terms & Conditions, to cover the change in privacy poli

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 20 September, 2023 Version:  P07.04 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: introduced a new outcome navigation mechanism, to improve the researcher experience in completing their submission. This is to address issues where researchers struggle to navigate efficiently, a

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 6 September, 2023 Version:  P07.03 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: release of a new “Professional Development” Additional Question for Earlham Institute. Added: added a new reminder to encourage researchers to connect to their ORCID account (if they have one). Su

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 23 August, 2023 Version:  P07.02 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: improved user experience by adding a Back button for each page of the submission workflow. Added: enhanced user experience by adding a Submission Progress Tracker to show Awards in submission that h

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 26 July, 2023 Version:  P06.06 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: improved the display of tables in the e-Val Awards and Dashboard pages. Improved: addressed a user experience confusion caused by the notification message that’s displayed when adding multiple publ

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 5 July, 2023 Version:  P06.05 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: Search is again available to funder administrators with full data access. Improved: infrastructure changes have been made to the platform’s email capabilities, so that we are able to queue emails wi

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Release Date:  Friday, 23 June, 2023 Version:  P06.04 Fixed: addressed an issue when in certain circumstances the action buttons at the bottom of a page would be partially visible. Fixed: ensured that all the options available in the My Accounts page are visible in the new user interface Improved: updated the platform so that it is compatible with t

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 7 June, 2023 Version:  P06.03 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: added a “Key Findings” Additional Question to the platform, for the Earlham Institute Added: added a “Secondments, placements and internships” Additional Question to the platform, for the Earlham Insti

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Release Date:  Thursday, 25 May, 2023 Version:  P06.02 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: applied a security update to the Drupal CMS platform. Improved: adjusted how we search and store publications from Inspire/HEP, to account for changes in how they handle Group authors. Improved: made

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Release Date:  Thursday, 11 May, 2023 Version:  P06.01 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Added: Added a new Additional Question for the Earlham Institute. Added: Publications can now be harvested from Scopus, via a Scopus Author ID. These publications are automatically added to a researcher’s Pers

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 26 April, 2023 Version:  P05.06 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved: Where we allow uploads as part of the data collection process for particular additional questions, this now appears as a link that the Administrator can click on and download, replacing the previo

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Release Date:  Thursday, 23 March, 2023 Version:  P05.04 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Note that the Interoperability uploader that Researcher Organisations use to support their Researchers with, is now available after the UK multi funder submission period has closed. Updates to the new theme

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Release Date:  Thursday, 9 March, 2023 Version:  P05.03 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Fixed: When a researcher is adding or removing outcomes, there is no longer a delay or discrepancy in the number that then appears on their Personal Portfolio page for that outcome type. Fixed: The timestamp

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Release Date:  Thursday, 23 February, 2023 Version:  P05.02 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Updates to the new theme include: IMPROVED: The help videos on the platform now use the new theme. IMPROVED: The e-Val navigation for Funder and RO Admins now appears under the main navigation on the left

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Release Date:  Friday, 3 February, 2023 Version:  P05.01 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. ADDED: An introduction to Researchfish video has been added to the login screen and the page Researchers land on when they accept their Award and register for a Researchfish account ADDED: A request to all l

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 25 January, 2023 Version:  P04.07 Take a look at the introduction of search for all Admin users with improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. ADDED: A more comprehensive search is now available for all funder and research organisation admins within e-Val. This allows the admin to search their awar

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Release Date:  Monday, 16 January, 2023 Version:  P04.06 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. ADDED: New additional question for Barts Charity with a set of questions around progress after the grant has ended. ADDED: A consistent switch theme banner has been added at the top of all pages on the platf

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Release Date:  Monday, 16 January, 2023 Version:  P04.05 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. ADDED: Submission reminder emails sent through the platform no longer get sent to those Award holders that are Response code 2 or 3. Instructions on how this can be managed have also been added to the platfo

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 Version:  P04.04 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. IMPROVED: Where an Administrator or Researcher is inviting a new user to the platform, they are now required to make sure that the following information (tokens) are included, and if not, will be asked t

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 30 November, 2022 Version:  P04.03 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. ADDED: New additional question for Lundbeckfonden (Research team information). IMPROVED: Updates to two FWF additional questions were made with changes to the guidance text on both the Research Report an

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 16 November, 2022 Version:  P04.02 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. ADDED: New additional question for FWF (Annex - Overview, Facts Sheets, CVs to Organisation). ADDED: New additional question for JDRF (Team Composition and Industry Engagement). ADDED: New additional que

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 2 November, 2022 Version:  P04.01 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. IMPROVED: Update to the Research Datasets, databases and models question set, where Data handling & control has been removed as an option from the initial question. Note any data already added will be

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Release Date:  Saturday, 22 October, 2022 Version:  P03.06 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. This includes the release of a new theme for the platform that users are welcome to try. ADDED: New design theme for users to adopt, with feedback welcomed! Note that the key change is the position of the

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Release Date:  Thursday, 29 September, 2022 Version:  P03.05 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. ADDED: When a Researcher creates new Intellectual Property & Licensing entries through search and select, they will see an additional field describing the area to which the patent relates e.g. Espace

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Release Date:  Thursday, 15 September, 2022 Version:  P03.04 ADDED: This sprint saw a major update in the platform, with the release of new underlying databases for Researchfish. Replacing our old systems with a newer and more reliable data store ensures that the application is set up for the long-term. It will provide the foundation for future enha

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Release Date:  Thursday, 1 September, 2022 Version:  P03.03 Note that, as with many sprints, there is development work in this sprint that has not yet been released to the platform. ADDED: back end database support for improving the quality/provenance of Further Funding outcomes. ADDED: user login now accepts either the username or the email address

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Release Date:  Tuesday, 16 August, 2022 Version:  P03.02 Note that, as with many sprints, there is development work in this sprint that has not yet been released to the platform. ADDED: information about how the data added to Researchfish is used by Funders and Research Organisations on the login page. ADDED: information about who can see the data y

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 3 August, 2022 Version:  P03.01 Note that, as with many sprints, there is development work in this sprint that has not yet been released to the platform. ADDED: support for PlumX analytics, as another source of altmetrics data for publications. ADDED: support for creation of Publication outcomes from Scopus records. ADDED:

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Release Date:  Thursday, 14 July, 2022 Version:  P02.06 Note that, as with many sprints, there is development work in this sprint that has not yet been released to the platform. ADDED: added 2 Additional Questions – Key Findings, Narrative Impact – for National Ataxia Foundation. IMPROVED: Updated the Drupal components of the platform. If you have q

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Release Date:  Thursday, 30 June, 2022 Version:  P02.05 Note that, as with many sprints, there is development work in this sprint that has not yet been released to the platform. ADDED: the ORCID integration now handles Datacite records. Where a researcher has linked their ORCID account with their Researchfish account, the integration will now try to

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Release Date:  Thursday, 16 June, 2022 Version:  P02.04 Note that, as with many sprints, there is development work in this sprint that has not yet been released to the platform. ADDED: added “Progress Report” and “Retrospective Submission Period” Additional Questions, for Fighting Blindness Canada IMPROVED: some improvements were made to the range o

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Release Date:  Tuesday, 31 May, 2022 Version:  P02.03 IMPROVED: updated the dataset held on the Researchfish platform, that’s used to streamline the process for creating Medical Products, Interventions and Clinical Trials records. FIXED: addressed an issue where an additional comments field in the Wittgenstein Award Additional Question was not accep

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 18 May, 2022 Version:  P02.02 Note that, as with many sprints, there is development work in this sprint that has not yet been released to the platform. FIXED: addressed an issue where importing ORCID records with invalid DOIs was producing duplicate records. FIXED: addressed an issue where importing ORCID records with PMIDs

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Release Date:  Friday, 6 May, 2022 Version:  P02.01 Note that, as with many sprints, there is development work in this sprint that has not yet been released to the platform. FIXED: addressed an issue where the title of some “Influence on Policy, Practice, Patients & the Public” outcomes was incorrect. Note: If you have questions about improvemen

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Release Date:  Thursday, 21 April, 2022 Version:  P01.06 IMPROVED: rolled back infrastructure changes required to support the increased platform workload during the recent UK Multi Funder Submission Period. IMPROVED: completion of an audit of accessibility of the Researchfish platform. There will be work done in future sprints to address the key fin

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Release Date:  Thursday, 31 March, 2022 Version:  P01.05 IMPROVED: work to support the end of the UK Multi Funder Submission Period IMPROVED: work to audit the accessibility of the platform (work to address issues raised by the audit will be scheduled in future releases). Note: If you have questions about improvements or fixes, please contact: colin

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 23 March, 2022 Version:  P01.04 IMPROVED: work to support the platform during the UK Multi Funder Submission Period IMPROVED: increased the file size limits for interoperability files (now 3MB), RHT files (now 5MB), and Data Management Plans associated with some Additional Questions (now 5MB) IMPROVED: made the process for

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 2 March, 2022 Version:  P01.03 IMPROVED: work to support the platform during the UK Multi Funder Submission Period FIXED: fixed a bug when specific users were not able to access their awards FIXED: fixed a bug where in a specific situation, the "Do not send email" checkbox was missing when editing awards Note: If you have q

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 16 February, 2022 Version:  P01.02 IMPROVED: refreshed the ETHOS/Inspire publication data used on the platform IMPROVED: refreshed the Further Funding data used on the platform IMPROVED: work to prepare the platform for the UK Multi Funder Submission Period FIXED: fixed a bug where in a specific situation, a submission peri

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 2 February, 2022 Version:  P01.01 ADDED: If a dataset, piece of software, audio, video, or sound file has a Datacite DOI and includes funding attribution information, then these will now be automatically added and attributed in Researchfish, if they are not already reported ADDED: created a mechanism to allow for the refres

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Release Date:  Friday, 21 January, 2022 Version:  2022.01 ADDED: added Progress Report and Final Report Additional Questions, for Lung Foundation Australia. IMPROVED: work to prepare the platform for the upcoming Multi-Funder Submission Period. IMPROVED: work to update the Datacite data used by the platform. FIXED: the onboarding dialogue for first-

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Release Date:  Thursday, 6 January, 2022 Version:  2021.25 IMPROVED: indication of the timezone applied to the start and end dates for submission periods. IMPROVED: performance improvements when entering Further Funding outcomes, and when requesting downloads IMPROVED: changes to the Influence on Policy Guidance text, as proposed by the Researchfish

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 8 December, 2021 Version:  2021.24 ADDED: New search model has been included for Researchers as part of the Medical Products and Clinical Trials Question set. As part of the work Researchfish has integrated with clinical trial information from many different  sources and made them available via a single search. Sources we i

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Release Date: Wednesday, 10 November, 2021 Version: 2021.22 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release IMPROVED: Set up a new Additional Question section on Clinical Trials for the European Hematology Association. IMPROVED: Set up a new Additional Question section on Career Development & Engagement for

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Release Date: Monday, 1 November, 2021 Version: 2021.21 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. IMPROVED: Replace current Swecris API, one of the Further Funding sources. IMPROVED: Apply the changes proposed by the Reserchfish Question Set Sub Group to the Influence on Policy, Practice, Patients and the

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Release Date:  Monday, 18 October, 2021 Version: 2021.20 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. IMPROVED: Extend validation for RHT uploads to include file type + file size checks IMPROVED: Ensure the messaging on the platform gives the Funder Admin what they need to know as part of the RHT Process IMP

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Release Date:  Monday, 4 October, 2021 Version:  2021.19 Take a look at the improvements to the Further Funding entry form for Researchers added to the platform in the latest release. IMPROVED: A stepped process has been added into the Further Funding entry form for Researchers breaking it down to: Further Funding >> Funder >> Provide De

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Release Date: Wednesday, 15 September, 2021 Version: 2021.18 Take a look at the improvements to the RHT uploads and validations added to the platform in the latest release. IMPROVED: Messaging has been added to the platform that informs Researchers they must click on "Add" after inputting all Partner details when creating a "Collaborations & Par

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Release Date: Wednesday, 1 September, 2021 Version: 2021.17 Take a look at the improvements to Patent data added to the platform in the latest release. IMPROVED: HEP / INSPIRE API upgrade IMPROVED: When searching, selecting and adding a Patent to their Portfolio, Researchers through the platform, Funders and ROs on the platform, SQL and Exports can

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Release Date: Wednesday, 18 August, 2021 Version: 2021.16 No changes to the platform this release…

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Release Date:  Monday, 9 August, 2021 Version: 2021.15 Take a look at the fixes added to the platform in the latest release. FIXED - Custom Award Group field within the e-Val Reports page now shows the correct values for EHA.

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Release Date: Wednesday, 21 July, 2021 Version:  2021.14 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved - Refreshed Further Funding data collected from the following sources: Information on Australian Government FundingInformation on the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanad

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Release Date: Thursday, 8 July, 2021 Version: 2021.13 Take a look at the fixes added to the platform in the latest release. FIXED - Research Organisations (ROs) cannot download the revised versions of Additional Question data, set to be hidden from them by Funders, through the Word download on the Awards detail page and through e-Val exports. FIXED

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Release Date: Thursday, 24 June, 2021 Version:  2021.12 Take a look at the fixes added to the platform in the latest release. FIXED - Funders can now set the sharing of Awards to Full or Not sharing, the ability to Part share has been removed from e-Val Award edit screens and e-Val Award search bulk update options. FIXED - Research Organisations can

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Release Date: Wednesday, 9 June, 2021 Version: 2021.11 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Fixed - The Spin outs search and select now returns results for Researchers when they are looking for their company. Fixed - The publications refresh now correctly promotes the right records as part of the pub

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Release Date: Wednesday, 26 May, 2021 Version: 2021.10 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. Improved – Updated Additional Funder Question: Progress / Final Report to MND Australia. Improved - Additional checks being applied to the RHT process Fixed - When a Funder is updating an Additional Question t

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Release Date: Wednesday, 12 May, 2021 Version: 2021.09 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. --------------------------------------------- Enhanced data collection --------------------------------------------- Improved – Added Additional Funder Question: Progress / Final Report to MND Australia. Impro

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Release Date: Friday, 30 April, 2021 Version: 2021.08 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. --------------------------------------------- Enhanced data collection --------------------------------------------- Improved – Added Additional Funder Question: Progress / Final Report to MND Australia. Improv

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Release Date: Thursday, 1 April, 2021 Version:  2021.06--------------------------------------------- Enhanced data collection --------------------------------------------- Improved – Added Additional Funder Question: Data Management Plan to Austrian Science Fund (FWF). --------------------------------------------- Enabling data exploration & ins

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Release Date:  Thursday, 18 March, 2021 Version:  2021.05 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. --------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden --------------------------------------------- Improved - All users, who have access, can now see the clinical trial

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Release Date:  Monday, 8 March, 2021 Version:  2021.04--------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden --------------------------------------------- Improved - Publications that are being added through the search look-up via Orcid by Researchers, now have an additional validation step to ensure the record ha

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Release Date:  Thursday, 18 February, 2021 Version:  2021.03--------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden --------------------------------------------- Fixed - User guide now appears as expected when the user clicks the link to view the guide.  Fixed issue with users being rerouted to either the Invoices

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Release Date:  Thursday, 4 February, 2021 Version:  2021.02--------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden --------------------------------------------- Improved - Replaced British Heart Foundation (BHF) platform specific guidance text Improved - We now allow Researchers to filter on agreed columns when loo

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Release Date:  Thursday, 21 January, 2021 Version:  2021.01  --------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden ---------------------------------------------  Improved - Changed the text on the Interoperability uploader page to inform users when it will be turned off. Research organisations can upload publicat

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Release Date:  Thursday, 7 January, 2021 Version:  2020.25  --------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden --------------------------------------------- Improved - Location search lookups - Ensured that the 3 location searches for Next destinations, Collaborations & Partnerships and within Further Fund

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Release Date:  Thursday, 10 December, 2020 Version:  2020.24 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. --------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden --------------------------------------------- Improve - We have improved the display and function for none publi

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Release Date:  Friday, 27 November, 2020 Version:  2020.23 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. --------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden --------------------------------------------- Improve - Researchers will see those ‘Additional Funder Questions’ t

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Release Date:  Friday, 13 November, 2020 Version:  2020.22 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. --------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden --------------------------------------------- Improve - Added Datacite search look-up to the Artistic & Creati

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Release Date:  Friday, 30 October, 2020 Version:  2020.21 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. --------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden --------------------------------------------- Improve - Made changes to the interface to improve search button and

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Release Date:  Monday, 19 October, 2020 Version:  2020.20 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. --------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden --------------------------------------------- Fix - PI Download Review now contains only expected items. Fix - When

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Release Date:  Tuesday, 6 October, 2020 Version:  2020.19 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. --------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden --------------------------------------------- Improve - Users have a better experience now when accessing a 'protec

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Release Date:  Friday, 18 September, 2020 Version:  2020.18 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. --------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden --------------------------------------------- Improve - Improved the look of Search box labels to ensure Research

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 9 September, 2020 Version:  2020.17 Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release. --------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden --------------------------------------------- Improve - Added Further Funding source - Canadian Research inform

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Release Date:  Thursday, 20 August, 2020 Version:  2020.16 --------------------------------------------- Better user experience / Reducing the burden --------------------------------------------- Improve - Added further funding from Australian Government Funding with approximately 63,000 grants.  Improve - Publication records created using the NASA-

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Release Date:  Monday, 3 August, 2020 Version:  2020.15 --------------------------------------------- Search Bar Search Input: The landing page will show all results for Funders to explore User enters search term into text box A contextual sentence will show the index type being searched (Award, Person, Organisation or Entity/Outcome) under the keyw

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Release Date:  Friday, 26 June, 2020 Version:  2020.12 Better user experience Fix -NIHR can edit awards as expected. When NIHR users are searching for awards, and click on the "Edit" button to the right of the result, and then clicks the “Update” button; the user is taken back to e-Val > Awards, and a confirmation message appears confirming that

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Release Date:  Friday, 12 June, 2020 Version:  2020.11 Better user experience Improve - Added Documentation about Additional questions to the Question set page in Knowledgebase. Before login, users are presented with the Question Set Download form. We have added introductory text about what The Question Set is, and additional information about addit

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Release Date:  Monday, 1 June, 2020 Version:  2020.10 Better user experience Improve - Users can download the full details of the organisations listed within the “our community” pages. The Our community pages are used by different user groups to see the relevant organisation types and the details for them all in one place. We now provide a download

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Release Date:  Wednesday, 20 May, 2020 Version:  2020.09 Better user experience ● Improve - We modified the Mandatory Additional Question “common-education-and-professional-training” to deprecate the current data table and add new questions as part of the main form to capture the corresponding information.  Before: When a RESEARCHER with an award vi

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Release Date:  Monday, 4 May, 2020 Version:  2020.08 Better user experience Improve - Location field now appears to Funders as well as Research Organisations. When editing a funding organisation, we now show a location field to both funding organisations (Funders) and research organisations. Before this change the field only appeared if you were loo

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Release Date:  Tuesday, 21 April, 2020 Version:  2020.07 Better user experience Improve - We now store a unique ID for subform and subtable entries allowing entries to be updated and deleted as expected. Fix - Users are able to refine by data types as expected when searching the system.  Fix -  Funders or research organization administrators can see

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Release Date:  Friday, 3 April, 2020 Version:  2020.06 Better user experience Improve - Made it clear that Centre Admins need to add a new researcher to their project before they can update the PI on the Add/Edit Awards project screen. Fix - We now prevent duplicate pending submissions for a user. It is possible that in very busy periods due to a mi

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Release Date:  Thursday, 19 March, 2020 Version:  2020.05 Better user experience Improve - Clarified that Centre Admin needs to add a new researcher before updating the PI on the Add/Edit Awards project screen: Added a note to Centre Admins on the edit screen under the PI title before the search heading: 'Please ensure you have added any new Researc

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Release Date:  Friday, 6 March, 2020 Version:  2020.04 Better user experience Improve - Added text to the Awards page saying ‘You can come back and edit your response any time up to the deadline.’ This is to let users know they will still be able to edit their entries after clicking the submit button. Improve - Added messaging to clarify that Centre

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Release Date:  Thursday, 20 February, 2020 Version:  2020.03 Better user experience Improve - Improved display and function of Awards Bulk Actions. Improve - Updated entries_datadb_orphans to only use current sections. The script update to remove entries that have changed sections has been updated to only consider sections that are currently in use.

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Release Date:  Friday, 7 February, 2020 Version:  2020.02 Better user experience Improve - Wellcome Trust, EPSRC and STFC have new versions of Guidance Information added to the platform for the submission period this year.  Fix - Replaced support videos with new rebranded ones for ALL USERS: All product videos have been updated with our new brand. 

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Release Date:  Friday, 24 January, 2020 Version:  2020.01 Better user experience Improve - We’ve made several updates to enhance the accessibility of our platform for people who use assistive technologies. When doing this we also fixed the issue that ensures when the user presses the Enter button, it now always presses the most logical button on the

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Release Date:  Thursday, 9 January, 2020  Version:  2019.25 Better user experience Fix - When a RESEARCHER is creating a `Collaborations and Partnerships` entry, failure to add a partner or fill the required fields in now results in the right error message appearing at the top of the page. Fix – Further work to fix layout snags from the recent syste

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Release Date:  Thursday, 12 December, 2019 Version:  2019.24 Better user experience Improve – Further validations and clearer error handling have been added to the RHT Award details importer including FA reference duplicates and a currency check. Improve - Update guidance documentation for Wellcome Trust and British Heart Foundation (BHF). Improve –

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Release Date:  Thursday, 28 November, 2019 Version:  2019.23 Better user experience Improve – Text changes were made to the answers given on the platform and exports to the following question within Influence on policy. “Has this influence on policy led to any of the following impacts?”. The changes were: Change “Improvements in survival, morbidity

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Release Date:  Friday, 15 November, 2019 Version:  2019.22 Better user experience Improve – When hovering over any active links in the platform they are now a consistent colour and the font size has been increased and where blocks are used for navigation in the platform. Improve – The My downloads page “Ready” and “Pending” indicators now have a lab

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Release Date:  Friday, 1 November, 2019 Version:  2019.21 Better user experience Feature – We have made some changes to the look and feel of the platform, replacing the logo, fonts and primary and secondary colours we use. We have also changed the title of the “Our Members” and “Documentation” in the navigation to “Our Community” and “Knowledgebase”

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Release Date:  Saturday, 19 October, 2019 Version:  2019.20 Better user experience Improve – Add text to the "Invite Team Member Page" to inform PIs/Delegates that team members cannot view or edit additional questions. Improve – Add in text and links to relevant pages as part of the notes for downloading and uploading for Funders when they use the n

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Release Date:  Thursday, 3 October, 2019 Version:  2019.19 Better user experience Feature – Funders are now able to download the current RHT Award data from the system and upload them onto the platform for Researchfish to then process. This should speed up the time it takes for Researchfish to process the data. Basic validation about the structure o

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Release Date: Wednesday, 4 September, 2019 Version: 2019.17 Enhanced data collection Improve – Robert Woods Johnson Foundation added to the data set for Researchers adding in Further Funding. For further details on the release or how you can get involved as a user tester, feel free to contact our Product Manager at ross.pullar@researchfish.com

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Release Date:  Friday, 23 August, 2019 Version: 2019.16 Better user experience Improve – Style and presentation of the header and Login box for the platform, with some minor changes to the colours to improve contrast.  For further details on the release or how you can get involved as a user tester, feel free to contact our Product Manager at ross.pu

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Release Date:  Thursday, 8 August, 2019 Version:  2019.15 Better user experience  Improve - Where pop up windows are used in Eval for Funders, on the researchfish platform, they have been replaced with the page opening up in a new tab.  Fix – As a Centre Admin, looking at the awards listing in Eval, they will only see the list of Funders when they s

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Release Date:   Friday, 26 July, 2019 Version:   2019.14 Better user experience  Improve – Funders are now able to update Meta Funders for their Centres through the Administration cog.  Improve – When fixing the logic around the Additional Questions traffic light system (see below) it was agreed that the following text change would be made when sett

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Release Date:  Thursday, 11 July, 2019 Version:  2019.13 Better user experience  Improve – When a Research Organisation signs up on researchfish, the confirmation process has been improved with better notifications sent to both users and staff.  Enabling  data exploration & insights  Improve – In Eval, Centre and Research Organisation Admins, ar

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Release Date:  Monday, 1 July, 2019 Version:  2019.12 Better user experience Improve – When editing a project, the Centre Administrator can now go through and edit the Centre Metafunder Improve – Where there is incomplete data for Centres, the submission date that was appearing was confusing to users, this has now been removed Fix – The invite page

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Release Date:  Thursday, 13 June, 2019 Version:  2019.11 Better user experience  Fix – Snags around the user experience of the new Reviewer Tool including PIs and Reviewers being able to see the Final report on page 2 and checks to ensure unique email addresses are used for Reviewers Fix – Broken links on the Privacy and Cookie Policy page now worki

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Release Date:  Sunday, 2 June, 2019 Version:  2019.10 Better user experience Improve – Kudos badge has been added to any publication listings where there is a link to this information, helping to broaden the reach and engagement with Funders, Universities, Centres and Researchers. See our blog post on this for more information. Improve – Text change

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Release Date:  Friday, 17 May, 2019 Version:  2019.09 Better user experience  Improve - As a Centre Administrator you can now see the Centre Metafunder details displayed on the Awards listing and detail pages in Eval.  Fix - As a PI, when you click on the How your information is used link, within Awards details, it sends you to the correct page  Fix

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Release Date:  Tuesday, 16 April, 2019 Version:  2019.07 Enhanced data collection Improve– Additional Further Funding source added to the platform, HSRProj is an aggregated data set containing information on over 350 agencies and charities, mainly in North America Improve - Versus Arthritis Career Tracker Additional Questions set up Enabling data ex

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Release Date:  Monday, 1 April, 2019 Version:  2019.06 Better user experience  Improve – Text and logic changes have been made to the Further Funding search, text changes include: In the search box - Funder search * Enter the name of the organisation that provided the funding e.g. Wellcome Trust, European Commission, Rolls Royce plc. The funder sear

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Release Date:  Monday, 18 March, 2019 Version:  2019.05 Better user experience  Improve – Tidying up and making some changes to the form that Research Organisations fill in to gain access to the platform clearer and easier to complete Fix - When adding an outcome and you click on the Award link in the bread crumb you go back to the Award page Fix -

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Release Date:  Monday, 4 March, 2019 Version:  2019.04 Better user experience  Improve - Funders can now search for a batch of awards in eVal using only the references, pasting them into the Awards search box to get the list of awards Improve - Updating how we handle logos on the site and adding new logos for Alzheimer's Research UK, MQ: Transformin

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Release Date:  Monday, 18 February, 2019 Version:  2019.03 Better user experience  Improve - Users who have associated their Researchfish and ORCID accounts are able to upload publications from Researchfish to their ORCID profile. Improve - Update field definition for datacite_update_date from 20 to 30 characters Improve - Mandatory additional quest

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Release Date:  Friday, 1 February, 2019 Version:  2019.02 Some minor changes to the way that our release notes will be presented, they will reflect our core principles of  Better user experience  Enhancing data collection Enabling data exploration & insights Better user experience  New - Search functionality improvements for Spin Outs, Further F

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Release Date:  Monday, 21 January, 2019 Version:  2019.01 Feature: Reviewer tool Bespoke (Funder specific) BETA functionality that enables a Funder to select peer Reviewers to assess the information reported by PI’s within the researchfish system. A Funder can set and extend Review Periods on an award by award basis. Funders can invite Reviewers (1

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Release Date:  Monday, 7 January, 2019 Version:  2018.24 Cosmetic and Content Improvements based on user feedback Text update to introduction to the question set download. Ensure where years are used in the common and additional questions that the option 2019 is added. Updates to the userguide to reflect any changes made to the app throughout 2018.

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Release Date:  Monday, 17 December, 2018 Version:  2018.23 Cosmetic and Content Improvements based on user feedback New button added to award page to give PI’s more information about whether they are ready to submit. Under the title”Am I ready to submit?” Users are given information about what they need to fill in with links to relevant next steps.

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Release Date:  Sunday, 25 November, 2018 Version:  2018.22 Cosmetic and Content Improvements based on user feedback Ensure login button in header is coloured orange. Create new account text changes. Privacy and Cookie Policy text changes. Associate outcome with award checkboxes are now aligned. Ensure that the last submitted date is more visible to

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Release Date:  Sunday, 11 November, 2018 Version:  2018.21 Feature Change to how we collect information about Spinouts with the following features added: Direct harvesting (automatically adding and attributing outcomes with the correct metadata from Open Corporates) Improved search functionality enabling the user to “search and select” rather than a

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Release Date:  Sunday, 28 October, 2018 Version:  2018.20 Cosmetic and Content Improvements based on user feedback Help text added on Awards and Portfolio pages to explain what the Common Outcomes and Additional Questions are. Text change in Question set download updating the label in the footer from "Downloaded:" to "Last updated on:” making it cle

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Release Date:  Sunday, 14 October, 2018 Version:  2018.19 Cosmetic, Content and Functional Improvements  Funders are now able to download a live copy of the data they hold on the system to help with the RHT process through the documentation tab. Text on the Eval uploads page for Research Organisations has been updated to include dates for the UK Sub

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Release Date:  Monday, 1 October, 2018 Version:  2018.18 Cosmetic, Content and Functional Improvements  Common entry fields to support interoperability (source, original_source and pubid) are now populated when an entry is added manually. Source and original_source are set to "Manual" and pubid is set to the entry id. EThoS metadata has been refresh

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Release Date:  Monday, 17 September, 2018 Version:  2018.17 Cosmetic, Content and Functional Improvements  When an account user has linked their ORCID account to Researchfish the full url will display in the header. e-Val Activity page now produces the correct count of awards in attribution activity. Remove abs_parent_id & abs_parent_name column

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Release Date:  Sunday, 2 September, 2018 Version:  2018.16 Cosmetic, Content and Functional Improvements  Improving how subtables look in the word downloads from the system. Improved how the publication API’s (ORCID, PubMed ID, WOS, ISBN, NASA/ADS, Scopus, DOI, Ethos & Inspire/HEP) are handled within the system. The bulk functionality to Assign

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Release Date:  Sunday, 19 August, 2018 Version:  2018.15 Cosmetic, Content and Functional Improvements  The last submitted date can be seen on the Award details page. The labelling for “Non-Admin” has been changed to “Read-Only Access”. The labelling on a number of documentation pages has been updated. Clearer instruction around the Funder T&C’s

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Release Date:  Monday, 6 August, 2018  Version:  2018.14 Cosmetic, Content and Functional Improvements  Enabled Export users to have a better understanding of what their Additional Questions and Organisation Specific Categories mean with descriptive tabs.  Improved the presentation of Word document exports.  Introduced a new auto download for Europe

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Release Date:  Sunday, 22 July, 2018 Version:  2018.13 Cosmetic, Content and Functional Improvements  New definitions tabs on Interoperability, Reports, Awards & HRCs and Common Outcome Exports to ensure users better undestand the data exported from RF Improve API connections with Europe PMC Better instructions on uploading and removing organisa

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Release Date:  Sunday, 8 July, 2018  Version:  2018.12 Cosmetic, Content and Functional Improvements  E-Val Award text search now handles spaces and comma separates the Awards when searching and renders correctly on the page Unauthorised users can now login with their ORCID ID When adding a location as a part of collaborations, further funding, next

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Release Date:  Sunday, 24 June, 2018 Version:  2018.11 Cosmetic, Content and Functional Improvements  Cosmetic tidy up of help/enquiry form Additional question for GCRF word count formatting corredcted to be the correct size Updating the details Researchfish holds on a publication at upload to ensure we have the most up-to-date information Bug fixes

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Release Date:  Sunday, 10 June, 2018 Version:  2018.10 Cosmetic, Content and Functional Improvements  Hide reason for editing and resize fields on profile page Text change on the buttons cancelling the create an outcome/answering an additional question to make it clear what the action is Documentation updates Roadmap updates User guide updates Addit

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Release Date:  Thursday, 24 May, 2018 Version:  2018.09 Improvements  Development to ensure we are GDPR complaint has been applied, this includes: Informing users, filling in any forms or updating their details, how we will use their data on the app Ensuring we can audit any activity on the site. This includes monitoring changes to personal data, ex

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Release Date:  Saturday, 19 May, 2018 Version:  2018.08 Improvements  Changes to how the app handles users not logged in, by always sending them to the login screen Additional chart for Publications by Type (R1_2) created in the reports page Improve error handling of currency conversions Logbot implemented to enable the audit of any staff masqueradi

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Release Date:  Saturday, 28 April, 2018 Version:  2018.07 Improvements  Changes to Question Set Download form Reporting improvements Additional graphs and charts required for each outcome type Reports Beta - Allow Switching Primary Org Faster aggregation-on-the-fly of data Centres dropdown improvements Cosmetics  Add publication supplier logos for P

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Release Date:  Monday, 16 April, 2018 Version:  2018.06 Improvements  Replaced live chat system to improve usability for staff working out of hours Replaced deprecated patent API Included better messaging when an ORCID search is run and no results are found Better handling of special characters throughout the system INSPIRE HEP Ids added to publicat

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Release Date:  Sunday, 1 April, 2018 Version:  2018.05 Improvements  Ensure that (r1.2.19, r1.2.45, import_source, source, pubid, Autosync, Autosync Success) are present in all outcome exports where applicable and that they use r1.2.19 for doi On RHT exports include the following: Columns indicating the name of the funder's additional question Wheth

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Release Date:  Friday, 16 March, 2018 Version:  2018.04 Improvements  Ensuring that the outcome exports field ordering matches that of the SQL WoS and Pubmed updates Update post submission survey link Standardise the dates used on the site Ensure that location search does not return deprecated locations Improve validation of the text added on awards

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Release Date:  Friday, 16 February, 2018 Version:  2018.03 Improvements  Latest news and updates added onto Login page Improvements to the locations tool to ensure better matches are made on any searches Reporting and outcome interface improvements to fonts, spacing, button and arrow colours PI send screen invitation interface improvements to fonts

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Release Date:  Friday, 2 February, 2018 Version:  2018.02 Features  Workflow for sign up changed in line with new GDPR requirements Improvements  Improve location results returned throughout the application Interoperability improvements to scripts and search functionality to the Crossref API Export improvements to remove Flash buttons and use curren

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Release Date:  Saturday, 20 January, 2018 Version:  2018.01 Features  Additional questions for various clients Improvements  Login page amendments allowing users to recover their password using their email or ORCID details Updates to the reporting period email logic to ignore those delegates removed Updates to improve the exports autosyncing process

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Release Date:  Monday, 8 January, 2018 Version:  2.2.2.3 Features AP-1236 Additional questions for various clients Improvements  AP-1121 Adding in a new mandatory field award_type to the awards wizardAP-1331 Improvments to the RF load cleanerAP-1270 Including hints to support users with common outcomesAP-1303 Improvements to the RF location cleanerA

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Release Date:  Friday, 15 December, 2017 Version:  2.2.2.2 Features  Interoperability released - further information can be found on this blog post AP-1240 Add extra fields to for interoperabilityAP-1236 Additional Questions for various clients Improvements AP-1075 Submission email reminder to PI's of awards where the submission dates are manually a

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Release Date:  Friday, 8 December, 2017 Version:  2.2.2.1 Features  Interoperability to be released Friday, 15 December, 2017  AP-1135 File upload mechanismAP-1159 Publication fetcherAP-1200 Build Data for the import queueAP-1150 Collect data contained in the import queueAP-1128 Fund ref extraction and mapping process in placeAP-1078 Web of Science

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Release Date:  Monday, 6 November, 2017 Version:  2.2.1.1 AP-1004 E-Val Redesign to simplify interfaceAP-1006 Relocate Admin TabAP-1007 Remove invoices tab entirelyAP-1010 Reports Tab name alterationAP-1011 Remove Submission Period TabAP-1016 Section Management Tab to go under Admin SettingsAP-1034 Font colour change on e-Val > Reports BetaAP-103