Below are the 2024 product update highlights for Digital Commons products. Please feel free to contact Consulting Services with any questions.

Digital Commons Data

January 2024

Search Datasets by Funder: This is a new functionality to enhance the search experience on Mendeley Data and on each of the DC Data customers showcase pages e.g. Research Data - University of South Florida. Search results can now be refined by entering a funding institution to view only datasets that the institution has funded.

Digital Commons Institutional Repository

October 2024

Improvements for author merges when using the Author Merge Tool. 

New Disciplines added. See Disciplines: Digital Commons Three-Tiered Taxonomy of Academic Disciplines for current list.

April–June 2024

Batch upload support for supplemental content. More information is available in the Batch Upload, Export, and Revise guide.

Updated cookie consent banner.

OAI oai-etdms metadata prefix improvements. Details for all metadata prefixes can be found in our OAI guide: Digital Commons and OAI-PMH: Outbound Harvesting of Repository Records.

New Disciplines added. See Disciplines: Digital Commons Three-Tiered Taxonomy of Academic Disciplines for current list.

Accessibility improvements for WCAG 2.1:

• Multiple improvements and remediations for submission form including author field.
• More visible focus indicator remediations.

January–March 2024

Clearer update message when a structure is hidden. Related guides: Hiding, Excluding, and Withdrawing Content and Updating the Site to Show Changes.

Updated readership maps on dashboards to Bing maps: Updated on Digital Commons Dashboards and Author Dashboards. Improves international support and handling of larger amounts of data. 

Accessibility improvements for WCAG 2.1:

• Contrast (Minimum) in search results, certain success and error messages, current page indicator, and PlumX popup.
• Added appropriate headings to pages previously missing them. Fixed the Edit Profile page structure.  
• Improved structure and relationships on submission form and metadata summary.
• Visible focus indicators for elements on multiple pages and forms.

Digital Commons Journals

December 2024

Modern Journal Designs went live for initial customer cohort.

October 2024

Modern Journal Designs entered phase two of the beta: Expanded functionality to beta testers.