The current CERV enhancement schedule is currently underway.
24 February 2026 – Submission deadline to Enhancement Portal
25 February-8 April 2026 – Esploro Product Working Group review (IGeLU and ELUNA)
15 April-6 May 2026 – Member voting in Voting Portal
11 May-5 July 2026 – Ex Libris pointing
13 July-27 July 2026 – Member voting in Voting Portal (if required)
2026 Esploro Enhancements
Enhancement Request
Dev Points
Release Delivered
Ability to add new organisation on the fly when adding researchers to an asset (specifically new non-affiliated researcher)
5
TBC
Manage Grants: improve on the fly updates to Funder records and Researcher affiliation
5
TBC
Display ORCID in asset details
2
TBC
Standarise author affiliations across multiple assets (asset level, not researcher level)
10
TBC
Esploro – SWORD – Deposits – Integrate a Normalization Process based on a Normalization rule
5
TBC
Add Asset Approval status, Asset Approval date, Grant Note, and Comment fields to the search options available in the Advanced Search (Research assets) in the Research Hub
10
TBC
Request additional bulk update functionality in Manage Creators/Manage Contributors page of an asset
10
TBC
Display ORCID on the Manage Researchers screen in the Research Hub to facilitate merging researcher records and move assets
2
TBC
Add closed captions display functionality to file viewer
5
TBC
2025 Esploro Enhancements
Enhancement Request
Dev Points
Release Delivered
More asset types
5
December 2025 – March 2026
Researcher submission of Media Mentions
20
April 2026
Improve management of additional keywords/subjects, both in research hub and research portal input
10
November 2025 – May 2026
Ability to harvest OA full text files or links
15
March 2026
2024 Esploro Enhancements
Enhancement Request
Dev Points
Release Delivered
Improve deposit forms
25
July 2025
Ability to export Search results from Research Portal
5
March 2025
Make collections searchable
8
January 2025
Ability to shift a researcher from creator to contributor
5
February 2025
Duplicate an existing record for a new record edit
8
February 2025
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