We interview Jay Henry, PubFactory’s new Business Development Manager on the KGL blog at kwglobal.com/blog/knowledge-sharing-5-minutes-with-jay-henry. Read about his new role, his decades spent in the industry, the latest on the platform market, and the challenges scholarly publishers are facing. We hope you will join us in welcoming Jay to the team!
Conference season is heating up and we will be at most industry events. Please reach out and schedule a meeting if you will be attending any of the following.
Join Tom Beyer, Director of Platform Services, for the May 2024 R1 new feature release webinar and ensure you are getting the most out of your PubFactory technology and service.
If you are in Boston for SSP, we would love to meet you for a cup of coffee! As Platinum Sponsors, we will also be exhibiting at booth 304 along with our sister company Sheridan.
We will also be participating in the following industry events this year:
| Dates | 2024 KGL Event | Location |
| June 11-13 | AUPresses Annual Meeting | Montreal, Canada |
| Sept 11-13 | ALPSP International Conference | Manchester, UK |
| Oct 16-20 | Frankfurt Book Fair | Germany |
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This Spotlight covers the most interesting new features made in 2024 R1. For more detailed information, see the release notes and platform documentation.
The metadata layout engine widget now has an option to display the number of citing documents. This option is the “Number of Citations” option, and its displayed value should match the number of forward-linking citations associated with the document.
A new tab has been added to the My Account page called ‘My Subscriptions’. Any active subscriptions purchased through the e-commerce system will show in this tab. A renew button will also be available to allow a user to easily renew a subscription.
Note: Subscriptions that have no end date do NOT show up in this list as there is never a reason to renew them.
Before this improvement, the Cited By configurable layout block didn’t show the total citation count and only displayed the first 50 citations. After this improvement, the block shows the total citation count plus adds Next and Previous links to paginate, allowing viewing of all citations.
When a contrib has a name-type attribute on its name or name-alternative element, we will ingest that (and any other attributes) into our ifp:name and ifp:name-alternative element. E.g.
<contrib-group>
<contrib>
<name name-style="given-only">
<given-names>Cher</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
<contrib>
<name name-style="islensk">
<surname>Yourdaddysdottir</surname>
<given-names>Ég</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
<contrib>
<name name-style="eastern">
<surname>戴</surname>
<given-names>美慧</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
<contrib>
<name name-style="western">
<surname>Delmonico</surname>
<given-names>Courtney</given-names>
</name>
<name-alternatives>
<name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">
<surname>戴</surname>
<given-names>美慧</given-names>
</name>
</name-alternatives>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
This will also impact the ifp:author-sortkey when that value is “given-only”, at which point only the given name will be added to ifp:author-sortkey; all other values will have the same input as before with surname then given names, with some cleanup applied. For rendering, the name will be constructed as follows:
| @name-style | Rendered Output |
| “western” or none supplied | {Given Names} {Surname} |
| “eastern” or “islensk” | {Surname} {Given Names} |
| “given-only” | {Given Names} |
The UI has been improved on the jobs page in the Management Portal. Changes implemented:
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Join us at upcoming industry events throughout 2024. If you plan to attend any of the following, please don’t hesitate to reach out and schedule a meeting. In today’s world, it’s a rare and wonderful opportunity to be able to meet face-to-face.
| Dates | 2024 KGL Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| March 12-14 | London Book Fair | UK |
| May 4-7 | Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting | Portland, OR |
| May 29-31 | Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting | Boston |
| June 11-13 | AUPresses Annual Meeting | Montreal |
| Sept 11-13 | ALPSP International Conference | Manchester, UK |
| Oct 16-20 | Frankfurt Book Fair | Germany |
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This Spotlight covers the most interesting new features made in 2021 R5 and R6. For more detailed information, see the release notes and platform documentation.
JATS/BITS Content Ingestion Updates
We now support the display of Cadmore videos within JATS/BITS content. For these to display, the xml should look like this:
The key parts of the data are the specific-use=”cadmore” attribute on the fig element and the xlink:href attribute on the media tag, which must contain the DOI of the content as registered with Cadmore. In addition, if the transcript is included for indexing, it must be followed as above, with the labels containing timestamps immediately preceding the p for the content. This allows the video embed to display, to fetch the correct video from the Cadmore servers to stream, and to cue the video to the correct location if a search has matched text from the transcript.
There is no control over the color scheme used by the player; we use a neutral scheme based on the one that Cadmore provides as a default.
Note: At this time, the platform search functionality does not support returning the correct timecode information to cue the video but we do expect to implement this enhancement in 2022.
There is now a way to associate a PubGen Post with other loaded content. This allows links to posts to be embedded on journal issue pages or on related article, book, or chapter pages.
There is a new section on the Post edit page:
The text field will auto complete the URI for you. It will also find suggestions for you based on identifier and title.
Once you have content associated with the PubGen post you can use the content list widget to display them on any page you like.
Add the Content List widget where you want it in the layout.
Check the “Scope list to associated documents” to show only content that is associated with the document being viewed.
In response to multiple clients’ requests, we’ve added support for ingesting and displaying <etal>, <on-behalf-of>, <collab>, and <collab-alternatives> elements. To be displayed on the front end, these must currently be provided within a <contrib> element and reloaded from JATS source.
We are also ingesting <contrib-group> elements into <ifp:creator-group> elements. All mappings and indexes have been modified to find dc:creators anywhere within ifp:meta but we are currently not making any changes to the rendering in response to these groups. There is a ticket, PFCORE-12405, to correctly display both these groups and etal/collab/on-behalf-of elements within them. These are already being ingested, so that later ticket should not require a reload once implemented.
The end result of this is that this source xml:
Produces this loaded XML:
And this page display:
We can now display abbrev-journal-title in AMA article citations if available. We ingest this data as ifp:abbrev-title when creating the journal overview, with a type attribute with the JATS element’s abbrev-type attribute value.
Because the data is in the journal overview, the journal overview must be created after this functionality is deployed. This is not an issue for journals that have not yet been ingested, but if the journal already exists on the server, the overview will need to be deleted and recreated by loading any article in the journal. This will empty the ifp:issue-tocs element in the overview, so we recommend use of this only if the webapp is set to use dynamic journal ToCs.
This functionality only affects AMA citations, so it will not appear if they are not enabled, and will also have no visible effect if the JATS content does not provide an abbrev-journal-title element in the journal-meta data. If multiple abbrev-journal-title elements are provided, the one that appears first in the document will be the one used.
Sample source data:
Here is an example citation:
Amin S, Baine M, Meza J, Lin C. Impact of Immunotherapy on the Survival of Patients With Cancer and Brain Metastases. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2020;2020(7):832-840. doi:10.6004/jnccn.2020.7547.2020.7.test
We’ve changed how we ingest ISBNs to allow them to be more easily configured. We convert each ISBN element to a standard form, with a scheme of “isbn” and a type matching the publication-format or pub-type of the ISBN. We also duplicate one electronic and one print ISBN to be the standard eISBN and print ISBN to power our ISBN-based functionality.
The default value for format-precedence-order is “print,ppub,hardcover,paperback“ and the default for online-format-precedence-order is “online,online-only,electronic,ebook,epub,pdf” so the following isbn elements:
will be ingested as:
Note that the duplicated ISBNs appear first. This is necessary because many of our mappings for ISBN and eISBN select the first one in XML order.
There has also been a ticket created to apply this same change to ISSN elements.
Our alert triggering system has been somewhat error prone and problems are not typically discovered right away which makes it harder to figure out what went wrong in the first place. In addition to making updates to the code to make it more robust, we have also added an interface in the dashboard to show the status of alerts that have gone out recently.
If the failed count goes up suddenly please log a ticket and we will look into the problem.
Previously the job loading queue would not persist through a restart of the Management Portal. Now it will and if there was a job running at the time it will be restarted as well.
Some of our publishers need special language fonts. These fonts change often as more content is published in that language. In order to support the updating of these fonts without requiring a platform updates we have added a font management interface to the Management Portal.
Data Requirements
A client must provide their XML content with xml:lang attributes on any element they want to display in that font.
We will take that xml:lang attribute and transform it into a lang attribute in the rendered html. This also means that if a client has static content, static pages, or any other CMS content they want to use language fonts on they can do so by adding a lang attribute.
If a client provides us the following XML content mark-up:
<styled-content xml:lang=”mid-Mand”>ࡈࡁࡅࡊࡕࡀ</styled-content>
it will get transformed into:
<styled-content lang=”mid-Mand”>ࡈࡁࡅࡊࡕࡀ</styled-content>
and will have any “mid-Mand” language font rules that exist applied to it.
Adding/Managing Language Fonts
In the Content Editor drop down in the Management portal you will find a new option called “Manage Language Fonts”
The Manage Language Fonts page:
Users need to enter what the xml:lang attribute value will be, the font family, and upload the font file at a minimum to add a new Language font. We also support adding additional CSS properties.
Once the font file is uploaded we will attempt to save that font so this should be done last.
These fonts are at a global platform level so all SiteGen sites will be able to use them and there is no way to define a site specific font.
Example
Here is an example of an abstract that includes text using a font called mid-Mand:
When editing Layout Engine layouts, a version history is now kept for each layout. Every time a user saves or publishes a layout a new record is added to the version history.
When editing a layout a new link is provided to view the history of the layout:
The history page shows all versions with a link to view and/or restore that version:
When viewing a version from this history, the layout is in a “read only” mode. You cannot make changes to the layout in this view but you can use the copy tool. There is a button at the top of the layout to restore this version.
We keep old revisions according to the following rules:
We now have the ability to link an AMX to fetch the IP’s for organizations from the PSI Registry.
The PSI Registry has two levels of offerings which we have created ways to link into. With both tiers from the PSI Registry, IP Editing will be disabled in the AMS UI. All IP editing must done through the PSI Registry interface. When the PSI Registry is enabled, in the account access tab, when you click on edit, the IP Address fields are now disabled. There is also a new button which has been added, this will refresh the IP Addresses for an organization:
For all tiers, if there is a match between the AMS Account PSI External Identifier, and PSI Registry account identifier all IP addresses will be replaced with the ones from PSI Registry, if no match occurs IP address data will not change. For accounts with no match, the account will need to be added to the PSI Registry and then re-fetched to update in the PubFactory AMS.
Note that a formal agreement between PSI and the publisher needs to be inplace before we can turn on this integration for a particular PubFactory installation.
Note also that this integration is separate from the usage reporting PSI Metrics integration.
The E-Commerce module has been updated to add a new level of support. We have added the ability to support a shopping cart. This will allow users to add multiple items to the shopping cart and then pay for the items in a single transaction.
We have noticed that in certain cases forward linking citations were missing. This happened for two reasons:
We have addressed these two issues by making the DOI lookup a case insensitive index. We are now using an index separate from the normal identifier index to do DOI lookups.
We are also now saving all forward linking citations we find regardless of if we have a publication for them or not. This should mean better support for citations of content that comes to our platform after it has been registered in CrossRef.
We have improved our CrossRef deposits with more complete FundRef information if available. This will ensure that eligible content will be indexed correctly by CHORUS.
We have also added syndication URLs for funder harvesting.
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