A space for feedback, offering suggestions, and reporting bugs.
Dbconnect
April and early May 2007 feedback
Cindy's problem: If doing an employee report for the 2006 year, I have X publications. If I expand the time horizon, I have 0 publications.
fixed - reports using projects verified if the time period was covered within the project; this was too strict and simply removed
Someone's suggestion: The user should be notified if the publication forms are incomplete.
Robert's suggestion: Have an option where we can view all of our own publications so that we can easily identify missing and misclassified publications.
The reports work better now, but there's always been a search function:
Go to the modify publication page
Click the 'Search for a publication' link
Change the publication date range if necessary
Select yourself from the Department Authors select box
Jonathan's problem: If I do an employee report (by project) for the 2006 year I have 1 publication. If I do an employee report (by department), I have 3. I guess I would suggest that if no project is listed, dbconnect should default to "other." Regardless, these totals should equal one another.
fixed - finally added ability to display publications with incomplete information, such as when no project is selected
Robert's other suggestion: Definitions key for the publication classifications, e.g. what do we mean by "Basic Science", "Bioinformatics", etc.?
Outstanding requests
modify book request page
remind users about dept library (donations reduce cost by 50%)
provide info about which project is benefited by purchase
publications report for articles from elect journals
need to refine list of elect journals
published and peer reviewed
list articles by citation
provide time frame
link coeus to dbc
need to search certain fields (other than name/number/center)