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Releases: ScienceCommons/curate_science

Recent page default sort order hotfix (+adv. board updates)

21 May 12:57
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  • Recent page default sort order hotfix
  • Advisory board updates (removed 6 individuals)

full-screen mode optimizations & other minor improvements

20 May 19:53
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  • full-screen mode optimizations:
    • reduced fullscreen viewport breakpoint so user can enter full-screen mode on smaller screen sizes (1500px instead of 1920px)
    • set 40%/60% width to the article list panel/embedded viewer panel (instead of 50%/50%)
    • improved horizontal alignment of navbar items
  • added support for viewing distill.pub HTML articles in embed viewer (e.g. https://curate-science-staging-2.appspot.com/app/article/408 )
  • removed sort button criterion label text for cleaner look (on browse/recent & search results pages)
  • removed "--" text string for empty abstracts

full-screen mode, article card improvements, author page external embedding, & various UI/UX improvements

02 Mar 14:14

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  • “Full-screen mode” on all pages, which allows viewing of (embedabble) full-text PDF and HTML articles directly within any page on Curate Science!
  • Important article card improvements:
    • Slick swipeable mini figure viewer on article cards
    • layout improvements and other esthetic tweaks (e.g., article type and addition date in article card header)
    • article card actions (i.e., Edit, Link/Unlink, Delete) moved to a cleaner “3-dot more” menu in article card header
  • Author page improvements:
    • external embedding of author page article lists
    • new search filter to search within an author’s publication list
  • Delicious fancyBox media viewer to view figures, which includes touch-enabled multi-gesture functionality, beautiful on all screen sizes including tablets and smartphones.
  • Improved Navbar UX, including enhanced mobile friendliness.
  • And several other UI/UX enhancements, e.g., keyboard shortcuts for search box (“/”) & author page article list filter box (SHIFT + “/”)

See release video for a brief demo of the new features and improvements.

new landing/HIW pages and various UX improvements

09 Dec 20:47

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  • new landing page and How It Works sections, and completely revamped About section, to showcase prototype infographics of upcoming transparency curation products as part of our 3-year plan (so we can start soliciting interest for our next round of funding). these pages include:
    • deliciously mobile friendly
    • touch screen enabled infographic carousels (18 new infographics showing upcoming transparency and credibility curation tools for researchers, journals, universities, and funders)
    • slick FancyBox media viewer to zoom-into detailed infographics!
  • improved navbar
    • sticky navbar,
    • mobile friendly,
    • new Browse and HIW/Help links depending on logged-in state of user,
    • avatar directly links to author page (if available), with drop-down carret to access user menu.
  • updated and new FAQs
  • new hi-res profile pictures in People section
  • updated drawer links
  • AUTHOR PAGE: new search filter to search through author page articles
  • AUTHOR PAGE: embed author page articles on external websites (though not yet exposed in the UI)
  • updated replication definition in replication popup and substantially revised replication taxonomy infographic (more detailed instructions on how to categorize methodological similarity, including concrete examples involving published replications)

drag-and-drop multiple image upload functionality & crossREF lookup tweaks

29 Oct 17:05

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  • Upload multiple key figures/tables simultaneously
  • Slick drag-and-drop images functionality
  • Various crossREF lookup article metadata and formatting enhancements (courtesy of @JoeAmmar, thanks again!)
    • Added ?mailto in crossref api calls (to ensure we're not rate limited)
    • Automatic author name formatting (i.e., I Cheung, L Campbell, EP LeBel, SS Smith, ST Smith, SR Smith, ... , & JC Yong)
    • Automatic citation count extraction (WoS)
    • Automatic year extraction coverage based on whether it's a published study or not
    • Automatic extraction of preprint_url (if available)
    • Automatic extraction of abstract text (if available)
    • Convert article title from title case to sentence case (incl. capitalizing first word of subtitle)
    • Ensure subtitle is extracted and concatenate title and subtitle
    • And various other minor capitalization and formatting tweaks

major release: homepage filtering/sorting, search/search results page, & substantially enhanced article editor

11 Sep 13:54

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  • Updated homepage: Filter/sort by transparency and article type
  • New search results page: results also filterable/sortable by transparency and article type
  • Navbar search box with slick autocomplete component (autocompletes on articles & authors)
  • New article detail page
  • Substantially enhanced article editor, offering several new advanced curation features:
    • New Basic 4/Basic 7 retroactive disclosure statements, which allow any researcher to disclose 7 key methodological details (that went unreported) for any previously published article (effectively absorbing and generalizing the successful PsychDisclosure.org initiative!)
    • Several new fields to curate content associated with an article: URLs to related videos, talks/presentation slides, supplementary materials, and media/news coverage URLs.
    • Ability to add multiple URLs for various fields, including preregistration, study materials, data, code input boxes (and aforementioned videos, talks, supplemental materials fields)
    • Ability to indicate valid exemptions for study materials and data that cannot be made public (and “protected access” status for materials/data that are open but require researchers to register/log in to a protected data repository)
    • Automatic article basic metadata extraction via crossRef DOI lookup for faster curation
    • For commentary and reproducibility/robustness reanalysis article types, can now curate the target article/study and target article URL of the article that is being commented on/reanalyzed (and displays this info within the article type label popup)
    • Improved organization and layout of article editor input boxes for easier/more intuitive curation, including info icon popups to guide curation.
    • New article type (e.g., “Original – Meta-research”)
  • And various other minor fixes and UX enhancements!

minor aesthetic & UX tweaks

18 Jun 18:30

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  • fixed more/expand icon centering issue
  • improved aesthetics/UX of full-text links
  • display hyperlinked DOI icon (instead of actual DOI) to go to journal's publisher website (to declutter card)
  • add BETA to site name
  • improved unavailable badge titles
  • other aesthetic/UX improvements

initial beta release + minor improvements

18 Jun 18:25

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initial beta release of author page:

  • homepage of recently added articles (legacy list)
  • author page
    • create, edit, and link articles to author page (for existing articles added by co-author or admin)
    • curate primary & secondary transparency article information, full-text links, and impact metrics, key figures, follow-up commentaries (for different article types, including replication articles and curation of replication details)
    • add/edit basic author information
  • create new author page (admin only)
  • invite/create new user (admin only)
  • delete articles (admin only)
  • basic help page

minor improvements:

  • minor bug fixes
  • minor aesthetic style tweaks & UX improvements (e.g., CTRL+S save keyboard shortcut within article editor modal)
  • DOI sanitization