Release Date: 
Monday, 8 March, 2021

Version: 
2021.04
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Better user experience / Reducing the burden

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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 has a valid doi. Where this does not, the user is informed that this will not be added.

Improved - Locations that are manually added by Researchers for Next destinations, Collaborations & Partnerships and within Further Funding, now have a standardised step process in place with additional optional fields to add in to help with identification. If the Researcher is unable to find the location using the search look-up then they will be asked to add the primary location and Country as mandatory and optionally can add in the Department and URL if known.

Improved - Further Funding entries added by Researchers using the search look-up now have a dropdown of Funders that are in the system to choose from, instead of a free text field.

Improved - All users, who have access,  can now see the new funder project url field within the e-Val Awards Details page.

Fixed - When a Funder re-sends an invitation to a Researcher, they now see the correct email address, where previously this was not showing correctly on the screen.

Fixed - Publications that are being added through the search look-up via Inspire or Ethos by Researchers, can now search the Author field and a full set of data is being returned, where previously this was not happening.

Fixed - FWF Funder admins are able to see the final reports added through the platform, where previously this had not been present.