Semantic Scholar integration; Group Managers can now select servers to import preprints/journals from Configuration>‘Semantic Scholar’ section. A checkbox setting to enable/disable the import of preprints from Semantic Scholar has also been added.
Author proofing feedback; has also been refactored. Authors and editors will now access feedback from the Production editor>Feedback page. Permissions have been added to ensure the feedback form is locked when authors are providing feedback, and accessible in a read-only state after a feedback form has been submitted.
New links have been provided to access the Production editor;
- Authors can access the Production editor from the Dashboard>My Submissions>Actions link.
- Editors can access the Production editor from the Dashboard>Manuscripts I’m editor of>>Actions link.
There is also a record kept of all submitted feedback per version. Filter by version to see author feedback per round within the context of a manuscript version.
Other enhancements;
- Flax was updated to improve
robots.txt. Previously, onlyindex.htmlwas disallowed. If a draft article page was linked from an external public website, a crawler could follow that link and crawl the entire draft site. In non-draft node, a crawler was disallowed from crawling the listing of articles, which would prevent it from indexing the site. - Update to import DocMaps from the eLife API.
- XSweet flag that turns MathType inserted into Docx into equations accessible in Wax. Please note this is a Beta release. The current solution works most consistently when using output from MathType version 6. We’re working on support for MathType version 7.
Bug fixes;
- Fix that locked reviewers out of a review on multi-version manuscripts.
- Fix Dockerfile production.
- Fixes to editor assignment, permissions and form migration.
- Moved plugins folder to
packages/server/config/plugins. - Fix to hide author proofing email notification templates from the Control panel>Tasks&Notifications page.
Next release;
- Various page and menu behaviour and styling changes to improve usability e.g. sticky menus and creating a tabbed view. In the Configuration Manager.
- Exposing CMS (Flax) directory tree.
- Metadata manager to expose publication metadata e.g. ISSN etc.
- Configuration setting to allow Group Managers/Editors to edit submitted reviews.
