The Rapido enhancement cycle process is managed collaboratively by the IGeLU Rapido WG, the ELUNA Rapido WG, the IGeLU RapidILL WG and the ELUNA RapidILL WG.
Member libraries of IGeLU or ELUNA can submit and vote for requests on the AHA Platform.
2026 Rapido/RapidILL Cycle Timeline
| April 1 | Go Live for enhancement request submissions |
| April 24 | Last chance to submit new enhancement requests for this year’s voting in Aha! |
| May 1-31 | The Enhancements Team reviews, dedupes, scopes, verifies, transfers to other Working Groups when necessary, and sets up the vote |
| June 2-June 23 | First round of voting |
| June 24-July 15 | The Enhancements Team reviews the results, and prepares them for Clarivate to assign complexity points |
| July 16-August 13 | Clarivate adds complexity points to the top voted results |
| August 14-August 31 | Extra time assigned for clarification with Clarivate |
| September 1 (12:00 am GMT) – Sept 22 (11:59 pm GMT) | Second round of voting |
View Information on Cycles from Previous Years