Release Notes: Books & Presses (2024)

Notes on the live releases to the Ubiquity book and press platform are listed below, including bug fixes, new features, and enhancements to existing functionality. Bug fixes specific to individual installations are not listed. The dates given are for the end of the development sprint cycle, not the exact date that the release was completed.

Release notes for other years can be found on our central Release Notes page.

See our Release notes: Journal platform for similar updates on our journal platform.

Dec 17, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: CMS implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include: File upload enhancements Custom text & HTML block External journal cover images
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform website. Released work for testing include: Enhanced display for Announcements Enhanced sitemap tagging
Various	Enhancement	Journal matcher	Minor additions to the UPN Journal Matcher: Automatic data updates when journals are added or change their details Privacy note

Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement

Title

Description

Various

Enhancement

Press platform: CMS implementation

Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include:

File upload enhancements
Custom text & HTML block
External journal cover images

Various

Enhancement

Press platform: frontend implementation

Ongoing implementation of the new press platform website. Released work for testing include:

Enhanced display for Announcements
Enhanced sitemap tagging

Various

Enhancement

Journal matcher

Minor additions to the UPN Journal Matcher:

Automatic data updates when journals are added or change their details
Privacy note

Dec 3, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
PLAT-1389	New feature	Rua: Archive functionality	It is now possible for a book editor to archive a book submission from Rua without having to log an editorial decision. Previously a book could only be removed via a ‘reject’ or ‘publish' decision. The Archive function now appears for all book submissions and will be useful to complete tasks such as removing duplicate submissions, or removing books where the author withdraws, without having to contribute to editorial decision metrics. Archived books will be avaiable via the Overview page. It is also possible to unarchive a book. Instructions have been added to the Rua Editor Guide.
PLAT-1389	New feature	Rua: Rejected book list	Once rejected, books were removed from the editor dashboard and not surfaced anywhere without knowing the submission details. All rejected book submissions now appear on the Overview page, meaning that they will be easy to find without any prior information.
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: CMS implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include: File uploads Expandsion of icon options for navigation and leader boxes Map block for contact information
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform website. Released work for testing include: Featured books Enhanced display of Hypothes.is commenting & annotation function Icons in submenu and leader boxes Sitemap to aid indexing Retailer dropdown menu Chapter metatags for books
PLAT-1180	Enhancement	Press Platform: Data synchronisation	Data synchronisation from the old book/press platform to the new one, in preparation to using the new press platform.
Various	Enhancement	Metrics: various	Continued work to enhance the OPERAS Metrics platform, including: preparation to add citation details to citation metrics configuring all existing press sites to hold Google Books data creating the webpage to display all publishers making data available to the OPERAS Metric platform: Publishers - Metrics Documentation updating public definitions to be more detailed (available at Measures - Metrics Documentation ) addition of UPLOpen.com as a standalone platform
PLAT-1745	Enhancement	Metrics: Make OPERAS Metrics widget open-source	The metrics widget used to display book metrics on the Ubiquity platform has been released as open source so that anyone is able to use the same display functions.

Nov 19, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: CMS implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Contact page blocks Coming soon book setting Icons for menu items
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform website. Released work for testing include: Advanced search Journal cover images

Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement

Title

Description

Various

Enhancement

Press platform: CMS implementation

Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include:

Contact page blocks
Coming soon book setting
Icons for menu items

Various

Enhancement

Press platform: frontend implementation

Ongoing implementation of the new press platform website. Released work for testing include:

Advanced search
Journal cover images

Nov 5, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: CMS implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Add customisation settings to the book list page Add customisation settings to the journal list page Bug fix in custom font display settings
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform website. Released work for testing include: Coming soon functionality Supplementary files display RSS feed button for books Sitemap for SEO
Various	Enhancement	Data transfer	Data has been transferred from the old journal platform to the new infrastructure and upgrade scripts have been tested.

Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement

Title

Description

Various

Enhancement

Press platform: CMS implementation

Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include:

Add customisation settings to the book list page
Add customisation settings to the journal list page
Bug fix in custom font display settings

Various

Enhancement

Press platform: frontend implementation

Ongoing implementation of the new press platform website. Released work for testing include:

Coming soon functionality
Supplementary files display
RSS feed button for books
Sitemap for SEO

Various

Enhancement

Data transfer

Data has been transferred from the old journal platform to the new infrastructure and upgrade scripts have been tested.

Oct 22, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: CMS implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Add 'Featured Journal' setting to External Journals Add footer logo URL
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform website. Released work for testing include: Press Footer/Columns Design Press Header/Navigation Design Journal information to Pres search External journals in Press search Journal lists Add language packs General design connections
PLAT-1640	Bug fix	Rua: sequence of authors/editors not correct on publication	The correct order of editors/authors for a book were not being correctly represented on the press website at the point of publication. This bug has been fixed so that the book page will be identical to the author list in Rua.
PLAT-1452	Enhancement	Rua: Supplementary file functionality	Additional functionality has been added to the ability for a published book to manage supplementary files from within Rua. This allows the book to either hosted the file directly, along with associated metadata, or to link out to an external location (e.g. data repository). The information and link to the files will then appear on the new press sites.

Oct 8, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: CMS implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Carousel Block Leader Boxes Block RSS Feed Block Coming Soon Books Block Announcements Block Featured Journals Block API implementation
PLAT-1514	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform website. Released work for testing include: Automated list of book series Improvements to semantic search 'submit' interface Add semantic search to book browse page Additional ordering options in search results Addition of ISBN in search data
PLAT-1586	New feature	Metrics: Google Books added to usage data	Data obtained from Google Books is now being added into the book usage data. Once added, the data will appear in the overall metrics as well as individually broken down in the associated graph. To see an example, visit The Battle for Open and click on the ‘Reads’ metric.
PLAT-1627	Enhancement	Rua: Make publisher list alphabetical	Press portals that publish books from multiple publishers now have an improved interface in Rua to assign each book to the specific publisher.

Sep 24, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: CMS implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include: custom page builder
PLAT-1514	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform website. Released work for testing include: Connecting the website to the new content management system citation export function ‘order by’ functionality to book lists refinement of book list ordering
PLAT-1602	Enhancement	Press platform: SEO	Canonical URL’s have been implemented, helping search engines (e.g. Google) from indexing the site and thus users finding the site content more easily.
PLAT-1457	Enhancement	Update to open source Rua	The open source version of Rua had not been updated for some time due to security concerns. These have now been fixed and the open source version of Rua is now fully up to date.

Sep 10, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
PLAT-1592	New feature	Press platform: download MARC records	A download URL has been created so that it is now possible for anyone to download the full list of MARC records associated with any press on the Ubiquity platform. MARC records are required for many indexing and dissemination platforms, as well as ingestion into library catalogues.
PLAT-1595	Enhancement	Press platform: SEO assessment	A thorough investigation was conducted on the new press platform to identify potential areas of improvement regarding SEO. Implementation of issues found will be completed in future.
PLAT-1598	Enhancement	Metrics: UPLO usage as a separate source	Books published by UPN members may now also be hosted on uplopen.com, meaning that they can be accessed from different locations on the Ubiquity platform. The work completed here isolated the different sites so that usage can be identified and displayed (e.g. did a download come from the publisher’s own site or uplopen.com).

Aug 27, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: CMS implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Footer settings API implementation, in preparation to connect the backend settings to the frontend website
PLAT-1577	Enhancement	Metrics: Citation display	The expansion of the citation data included a very large amount of empty white space between the data and the following section of the page. This has now been removed to provide a better user experience.

Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement

Title

Description

Various

Enhancement

Press platform: CMS implementation

Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include:

Footer settings
API implementation, in preparation to connect the backend settings to the frontend website

PLAT-1577

Enhancement

Metrics: Citation display

The expansion of the citation data included a very large amount of empty white space between the data and the following section of the page. This has now been removed to provide a better user experience.

Aug 13, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
PLAT-1556	New feature	Press platform: Semantic AI search	The new press platform now includes a ‘Semantic’ search, alongside the traditional text search. Whilst text search simply matches the inputted text against the appropriate metadata to look for a direct match, the semantic search uses AI approaches of Large Language Models, vector databases, and Resource-Augmented Generation to consider the meaning of your search queries, and return books that cover the same concepts. This can provide a larger number of relevant results than standard keyword search, which only returns books containing words that exactly match your query. The search will also provide results from different languages as the tool will complete translations automatically. The semantic search can be used at Search \| University Press Library Open .

Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement

Title

Description

PLAT-1556

New feature

Press platform: Semantic AI search

The new press platform now includes a ‘Semantic’ search, alongside the traditional text search. Whilst text search simply matches the inputted text against the appropriate metadata to look for a direct match, the semantic search uses AI approaches of Large Language Models, vector databases, and Resource-Augmented Generation to consider the meaning of your search queries, and return books that cover the same concepts. This can provide a larger number of relevant results than standard keyword search, which only returns books containing words that exactly match your query. The search will also provide results from different languages as the tool will complete translations automatically.

The semantic search can be used at

Search | University Press Library Open .

Aug 5, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: CMS implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Optimisation of localisation code, ensuring that multilingual presses can pass their CMS data efficiently to the frontend website.
PLAT-1514	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	The new press platform now includes options within the book author information so that the site user can search for that author directly from the book page, with a search on the press platform and a search on Google Scholar being available. This function will allow site users to find additional publications by the same author.
PLAT-1311 & PLAT-1548	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	The new press platform now has increased branding opportunities for the publisher, including: press logo above the book cover image press name within the book metadata both of the above can then link to: a publisher book list, complete with press logo, location, and description, and all books published by that publisher/imprint These functions will be especially useful to those platforms that publish books under multiple imprints, as each imprint will now be more distinguishable.
PLAT-1105	Enhancement	Metrics: Add book download definition	The ‘Book downloads (press: logs)’ had erroneously been omitted from the metrics definitions. This has now been added so that all metrics have links to the definitions of what is being counted in the footer of the metric.

Jul 16, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: CMS implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Design management (brand colours, logos, text and headers etc) Page management and navigation Press user management External journals File management
PLAT-1474	Enhancement	Rua: Additional publisher information	The Publisher settings now include a publisher description and path so that a publisher page, similar to the series page, can be displayed on the new frontend websites
PLAT-1534	Bug fix	Metrics: Rerun metrics scraper	Due to some Crossref credentials being incorrect, some citation metrics were not being logged correctly. The credentials have been updated and the data corrected.

Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement

Title

Description

Various

Enhancement

Press platform: CMS implementation

Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include:

Design management (brand colours, logos, text and headers etc)
Page management and navigation
Press user management
External journals
File management

PLAT-1474

Enhancement

Rua: Additional publisher information

The Publisher settings now include a publisher description and path so that a publisher page, similar to the series page, can be displayed on the new frontend websites

PLAT-1534

Bug fix

Metrics: Rerun metrics scraper

Due to some Crossref credentials being incorrect, some citation metrics were not being logged correctly. The credentials have been updated and the data corrected.

Jul 2, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: CMS implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Added language settings to support multilingual presses Added announcements settings [UI only] Initial work on the web pages page, for page content and navigation management [UI only]
PLAT-1218	New feature	Metrics: Preparation to support JSTOR & Google Books metrics	Continued work to incorporate JSTOR and Google Books metrics into the OPERAS metrics platform. This will result in download data from both platforms being aggregated into the press platform so that the wider impact of each book publication can be viewed.
PLAT-1298	New feature	Metrics: Display of usage maps	The journal and books platform now displays a map to show where users of the book/article are based. Geolocation is obtained via the IP address of the person reading the content. Once the country has been logged, the IP address is then deleted, meaning that the platform can display the map whilst remaining fully GDPR compliant as no personal data is being collected and stored.
PLAT-1405	New feature	Metrics: Usage reports split by imprint	The usage report for books will not be filterable by imprint, meaning that any partner on the Ubiquity platform that hosts books under different imprint names will be able to easily group usage data by the imprint name.
PLAT-1459	Enhancement	Metrics: connection to new journal frontend.	With the roll out of the new journal frontend, the metrics platform has been adapted to integrate with the new platform to ensure that all views and downloads are correctly logged.

Jun 18, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform frontend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Trending content feed to show which books have received most usage in the recent past Update to the PRISM integration to demonstrate peer review when logged via OAPEN
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: CMS implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Improved permissions to ensure only permitted users can view specific pages/settings Added General Design/Navigation page, complete with an on page preview Added a General Design/Header page, complete with an on page preview

Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement

Title

Description

Various

Enhancement

Press platform: frontend implementation

Ongoing implementation of the new press platform frontend infrastructure. Released work for testing include:

Trending content feed to show which books have received most usage in the recent past
Update to the PRISM integration to demonstrate peer review when logged via OAPEN

Various

Enhancement

Press platform: CMS implementation

Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include:

Improved permissions to ensure only permitted users can view specific pages/settings
Added General Design/Navigation page, complete with an on page preview
Added a General Design/Header page, complete with an on page preview

Jun 4, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Rua: preparation for new press website	Ongoing implementation of functionality required in Rua, in preparation for the new press websites. Released work include: Additional function to upload Supplementary Files for books into the published galley files
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform frontend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Resizing of series sponsor logo
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: CMS implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Press information configuration settings

Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement

Title

Description

Various

Enhancement

Rua: preparation for new press website

Ongoing implementation of functionality required in Rua, in preparation for the new press websites. Released work include:

Additional function to upload Supplementary Files for books into the published galley files

Various

Enhancement

Press platform: frontend implementation

Ongoing implementation of the new press platform frontend infrastructure. Released work for testing include:

Resizing of series sponsor logo

Various

Enhancement

Press platform: CMS implementation

Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include:

Press information configuration settings

May 21, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: CMS implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform CMS infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Section Builder RSS (news) Feed Block
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform frontend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Update to the in-browser EPUB reader Connection to metrics
Various	Enhancement	Rua: preparation for new press website	Ongoing implementation of functionality required in Rua, in preparation for the new press websites. Released work include: Simplification of retailer override function
PLAT-1333	Enhancement	Rua: Feature/Unfeature books via the Publication list	Press Managers are now able to add or remove Featured Books from the Published Books list within Rua, as well as the individual book settings. This will allow for quick and easy changes to the press homepage. (only live when on the new press platform)
PLAT-1359	Bug fix	Press platform: Removal of ‘Latest Activity’ feeds from press homepages (part 2)	Due to changes at Twitter/X, it is no longer possible to display the feed of posts. If a press website displayed the Latest Activity Twitter/X feed, it has now been removed

May 8, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform frontend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Navigation builder Customer page builder Bug fix to ‘Read’ buttons Improved Wikipedia concept results
Various	Enhancement	Rua: preparation for new press website	Ongoing implementation of functionality required in Rua, in preparation for the new press websites. Released work include: Retesting migration scripts Movement of files to new location Retailer information
PLAT-1325	Bug fix	Rua: review form builder errors	Continuation from the ‘Proposal form deletion error’ below, the review form builder has also been updated so that the risk of unintentional deletion of review data has been removed.
PLAT-1326	Enhancement	Metrics: non-DOI book metrics	The OPERAS book metrics platform has been updated so that it can now collect data for books that do not have DOIs associated with them. Previously, only books with DOIs would collect metrics.
PLAT-1347	Bug fix	Rua: Deletion of proposals	A big was discovered whereby if a book proposal was completed deleted from the Rua database then the whole book submission that it was associated would also be deleted. This has been changed so that the deletion of a proposal does not cascade to the whole book.
PLAT-1363	Enhancement	Metrics: Delete duplicate OPERAS databases	Obsolete/duplicate databases for the metrics platform were removed.

Apr 23, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform frontend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Initial implementation of the press Content Management System (CMS) Helm chart for new Press Refinement of the Featured Books display Bug fix to the drop down menu when displayed in Safari
PLAT-1317	Bug fix	Press platform: Removal of ‘Latest Activity’ feeds from press homepages	Due to changes at Twitter/X, it is no longer possible to display the feed of posts. If a press website displayed the Latest Activity Twitter/X feed, it has now been removed
Various	Bug Fix	Rua: Proposal form deletion error	A bug was discovered in Rua, whereby an active/used proposal form could be accidentally deleted, which in turn would remove all submissions associated with that form. The bug has been fixed so that it is no longer possible to unintentionally delete a proposal form and the removed submissions have been reinstated (this only affected a small number of Ubiquity Press titles)
PLAT-1329	Bug fix	Rua: NERD API istops Book updates	A bug was discovered whereby if the NERD API, associated with the Wikipedia concepts function, was down then updates from Rua would not be processed and displayed on the frontend. This has been updated so that the book data process is separate from the NERD API.
PLAT-769	Enhancement	CStation: Add font setting	Addition of a Font field to instruct the production team of typesetting rules.

Apr 9, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Rua: preparation for new press website	Ongoing implementation of functionality required in Rua, in preparation for the new press websites. Released work include: Migration of series data Retailer migration & associated settings
PLAT-1302	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform frontend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Search by discipline entry, directly from the book page.
PLAT-1194	New Feature	Rua: Scheduled publication	A function to schedule publications has been added to Rua, so that a book may be prepared in advance and set to publish at a set date and time, without the need for someone to press the ‘publish’ button at the time.
PLAT-1228	Enhancement	Metrics reports	Q2 metrics for all journal and book publications have been created
PLAT-1236	Bug fix	Rua: Proposal table ordering	The book proposal table was ordering incorrectly when set to order by date submitted. This has now been fixed.

Mar 26, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Rua: preparation for new press website	Ongoing implementation of functionality required in Rua, in preparation for the new press websites. Released work include: Migration of chapter author data Migration of book metadata Update to status of misaligned books Addition of RSS feed for books Remove duplicate author data
PLAT-1302	Bug fix	Press platform: backend implementation	A bug was found that when processing a book to a published state some of the data was not correctly updating on the new press platform, which caused other functions to fail. This has now been fixed.

Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement

Title

Description

Various

Enhancement

Rua: preparation for new press website

Ongoing implementation of functionality required in Rua, in preparation for the new press websites. Released work include:

Migration of chapter author data
Migration of book metadata
Update to status of misaligned books
Addition of RSS feed for books
Remove duplicate author data

PLAT-1302

Bug fix

Press platform: backend implementation

A bug was found that when processing a book to a published state some of the data was not correctly updating on the new press platform, which caused other functions to fail. This has now been fixed.

Mar 12, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Rua: preparation for new press website	Ongoing implementation of functionality required in Rua, in preparation for the new press websites. Released work include: Migration of Languages data Removal of mandatory DOI for Coming Soon function
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform frontend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: PRISM integration (see Directory of Open Access Books for more information) Minor design adjustments Removal of X/Twitter feed from book metrics
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: backend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform backend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Wikipedia concepts functionality RSS feed for book publications
PLAT-1208	Enhancement	Rua: Improved display of books within a series	The book series admin setting now includes a table that shows: All active books assigned to the series including whether the book is published or still in the editorial workflow (i.e. prior to publication or rejection) A list of all books assigned to the series but have been editorially rejected A list of all books not assigned to a series, including a button for quick assignment
PLAT-1241	Enhancement	Metrics: Update to metric definition	As Twitter/X blocked new metrics from being obtained in Spring 2023, the definition on the OPERAS platform has been updated to correctly describe when this service ceased to continue.

Feb 27, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
PLAT-1217	Bug fix	Metrics: fix erroneous book metrics	Following from PLAT-1188 (below) the book metrics have been updated so that the displayed metrics are now similar to the updated bot list. This should make the data for Q4 2023 more accurate and comparable to the rest of the data.
Various	Enhancement	Rua: preparation for new press website	Ongoing implementation of functionality required in Rua, in preparation for the new press websites. Released work include: Date migration of published book metadata Cache reset function
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform frontend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Implementation of the ‘cite book’ button and export tool Book citation formats Bug fixing on book display pages
PLAT-1135	Enhancement	Rua: Email configurations	All Rua installations have had a new email configuration put in place. These give greater deliverability and increased compliance expected configuration standards (e.g. DMARC).
PLAT-1170	Bug fix	Metrics: Downloads not displaying	A small number of journals stopped displaying downloads for new publications. This error has been fixed.
PLAT-1181	Enhancement	Rua: Book series URL creation & editing	An update has been made to the book series function, so that the slug/path entered to dictate the series URL is now set only when the series is created. It is no longer possible to edit the URL of a series once the series has been created without the help of the system administrator.
PLAT-1213	Bug fix	Rua: Languages not saving	A bug was discovered whereby the language selection in the book metadata was not saving, meaning that recent books did not have a language saved in their output. This but has been fixed.
PLAT-1216	Enhancement	Metrics: Google Books	Preparations have been completed to add Google Books configurations to the OPERAS book metrics. The integration of the metrics will come shortly.

Feb 13, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: backend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform backend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Compatibility of metrics with new URLs Correction of metrics collection Error fixed in the provision of search data
PLAT-1187	Enhancement	Rua: support large file downloads	Very large book files were timing out before being downloaded from Rua. Download time has been extended so that timing out should be less common.
PLAT-1175	Bug fix	Press platform: Chapter author middle names	An error was showing where authors without a middle name displayed the text ‘None’ instead of no content. This has been fixed.
PLAT-1188	Bug fix	Metics: Analyze broken book metrics	An error was discovered in the method of blocking bots from the book metrics. After updating the exclusion list (PLAT-1153) work has been completed to resolve the known inflation in the collected metrics.

Jan 30, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform frontend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Display of book licenses, including custom licenses Implementation of advanced search
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: backend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform backend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Implementation of advanced search
Various	Enhancement	Central Station: article production workflow	Enhancements were made to the data availability and data layout within article production workflows, to make typesetting and publishing by the Ubiquity production team more streamlined.
PLAT-1097	New Feature	Rua: EPUB reader	Rua now includes an EPUB reader, so that book editors can test the rendering of their EPUBs prior to publication. The EPUB reader is available either via the user dropdown menu or by uploading an EPUB as a digital format. See here for more information.
PLAT-1098	Enhancement	Press platform: Translation platform	A translation platform has been setup to help manage the translatable content of the upcoming new press platform
PLAT-1149	Enhancement	Rua: License version	Recent work to allow editable, custom license in Rua introduced a mandatory version as part of the data. This has now been made optional, as it will not be required in a number of use cases.
PLAT-1162	Enhancement	Rua: Removal of spam accounts	Some Rua accounts experienced a high number of spam accounts registering on the platform at the end of 2023. Measures have already been taken to block such registrations in future (see PLAT-1095, below) but the existing spam accounts have now been removed.
PLAT-1153	Enhancement	Metrics: updated bot list	The list of bots being blocked by the OPERAS metrics has been updated. It now matches the COUNTER bot list, with additional known bots also added.

Jan 16, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: frontend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform frontend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Book author information to book & chapter pages Sustainable Development Goals added to book pages Custom logo in press site footer Added detail to ISBN formats
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: backend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform backend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: API with full list of book disciplines
PLAT-1091	Feature	Rua: Formatting for book titles	Rua now includes the option to add formatting to book tiles (bold, italic, superscript etc). This function has been added to book and chapter metadata settings from submission onwards.
PLAT-1113	Enhancement	Metrics: Review of metrics bots	Continued work to update the list of bots/spiders that are blocked from counting within the OPERAS metrics
Various	Bug fix	Rua: fix downtime	Rua experienced some unexpected downtime, which ws investigated, fixed, and monitors put in place.

Jan 2, 2024

ID	Bug/ Feature/ Enhancement	Title	Description
Various	Enhancement	Press platform: backend implementation	Ongoing implementation of the new press platform backend infrastructure. Released work for testing include: Deployment of infrastucture into Google Cloud Migrate existing book data into new infrastructure
PLAT-759	Bug fix	Rua: Password not being generated	When the Press Manager creates a new user account, it should generate a password and display it. This function has been fixed. When the account is created, the password will now be displayed for the Press Manager.
PLAT-1136	Bug fix	Rua: Editor/Series Editor assignments	When an Editor/Series Editor werre assigned, various error were being seen: The author display was not listing the names or contact details of the assigned editors The Editor interface was not reacting correctly when editor assignments were updated Both have now been fixed
PLAT-1145	Bug fix	Rua: Adding new authors	A bug was discovered that when adding new authors to an existing book submission, the data was saved but the editor interface was not updated. This has been fixed.
PLAT-1152	Enhancement	RUA: Review Redis cache	Optimisation of a caching mechanism to remove duplicated information and reduce risk of the cache reset causing slowdown/downtime for the site.