Grant Tracker version 7.9 release notes

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In this release, we have continued to make enhancements to Grant Tracker designed to help save our administrators time and effort and give you greater control over your system’s configurations and data.

Key features in this release include:

An improved grant closure process with clearer guidance about outstanding tasks
Enhanced integration with ORCiD for pushing active grant data from Grant Tracker
Adding Dimensions as an external data source for publication imports

There are also many other other improvements and fixes which are outlined in detail in the full release notes. Thank you to everyone in the community who has given us feedback and suggestions, we hope you enjoy these enhancements!

If you have any questions about the release or would like to begin to plan your next upgrade, please just contact us via the Service Desk for assistance.

With this partnership, we have the opportunity to position ourselves as
a world leader in the development of the scholarly ecosystem.
Keith Webster, Dean of University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon

I cannot overstate how pleased we have been.
We have to have confidence to work with a partner
for at least 5 years on a project of this size.
Caleb Smith, Senior Strategy Manager for Research Intelligence & Analytics, University of Michigan

“Faculty need only spend perhaps less than an hour a year to prepare and submit their annual reports.”
Associate Dean, Carnegie Mellon University at Qatar

"Leveraging the interoperability between Symplectic Elements and DSpace has increased policy-driven institutional repository deposits by over 350%."
Ellen Phillips, Open Access Specialist, Boston University

Elements elegantly connected our multi-university system providing a
single source of truth throughout OIEx.
Tim Cain, The Ohio Innovation Exchange (OIEx)

The University measures the individual research activity of academic staff. This Measure of Research Activity (MoRA) requires the collection of publication data from faculty. Symplectic Elements supports this beautifully.
Floris van der Leest, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

[Elements] will help to bring transparency to the richness of thought showcased within non-traditional publications, providing a more holistic representation of faculties’ scholarly work.
Caleb Smith, University of Michigan

Feedback to date has been extremely positive from all levels across the University, with individual academics and colleagues actively promoting the ease of use of the system.
Rachel Baird, Research Policy Analyst, University of Liverpool