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Be able to promote key e-resources in a box, in the empty white space in a list

For example, in the empty white border to the right of a Talis reading list. This would be useful to help encourage students to use certain subject specific research databases like Embase and also multidisciplinary databases such as Scopus, where ...
Guest 3 days ago in Edit List 0

Data on how users add resources to their list

We would like analytics on the various methods that users are adding resources to their list. For example, are they adding directly via the bookmarking extension, directly from their list or via My bookmarks. This will allows us to customise our s...
Marie Carter 6 days ago in Bookmarking 2 Reviewed - on hold

ability to schedule Book Metadata Refresh

We are starting to use Review functionality for our acquisitions process, so it would be really useful if we could schedule the Book Metadata Refresh to run daily and out of hours at a quiet time.
Christiane Kloos 25 days ago in Reviews 1 Future consideration

Automated message when list sent for review

It would be great if we could automatically generate a message to send out to list publishers to inform them that their reading list has been sent for review (in a similar way that a message is sent out when a review is completed). i.e. We would l...
Amjad Husain 30 days ago in Reviews 1 Future consideration

Librarian Dashboard

My "blue sky thinking idea" - a librarian dashboard. A librarian could log in and see, all on one page things like: Recently updated lists Scan requests "Your" lists Actions to take Lists to review etc!
Katy Maydon about 1 month ago in User Profiles 1 Future consideration

Return to the item after editing its metadata, not the top of the list

After we have edited the metadata for an item on a reading list it would help us if Aspire was to return us to that section of the list, rather than the top of the list. Where we have a long list this would reduce a lot of scrolling.
Guest about 1 month ago in Edit List 1 Will not implement

Add a librarian to a list.

Your subject librarian is…” and then link to email/message them.
Katy Maydon about 1 month ago in Edit List 1 Already exists

Add a “I want this” or “buy this book” button

So academics can easily notify the library they would like an item ordered.
Katy Maydon about 1 month ago in Advanced Mis 1

Increase the size of student note

It is small and can get missed.
Katy Maydon about 1 month ago in Edit List 1 Future consideration

More General Customisation

For example: bold text, background colours, different coloured sections, etc. This would allow easier browsing for users and make it better to distinguish between sections.
Katy Maydon about 1 month ago in Branding 1 Will not implement