Free Enterprise Features

This week's update introduces the ability for non-enterprise users to use our AI-powered search, as well as a few bug fixes/improvements.

✨ New

• Lynx: Free users generate AI summaries of their searches
  • For any search term with open access publications, Lynx AI will provide a comprehensive summary for your query
  • Summaries include a general synopsis, relevant key findings, AND sources (YES, these are real sources!)
  • To view sources, click the title of the source and it will open its SciLynk's paper profile

💡 Improvements

• Collections: UI-refreshments
• Emails: Notification emails follow a more robust structure
  • Some users experienced daily notification emails which weren't supposed to be sent (fixed)

Collection Notes

This week's update introduces the ability for enterprise users to add notes to papers in collections, as well as a few bug fixes/improvements.

✨ New

• Collection Notes: Enterprise users can now write and edit notes on papers in their collection
  • Notes are only viewable within the collection
  • Notes are viewable by anyone that the collection is shared to
  • Notes do not carry over across collections. This allows you to write a unique note for the same paper in different collections!
  • Notes are editable for those with Editor permissions in a collection
    • Otherwise they will be read-only

💡 Improvements

• Collections: Users were encountering issues with collections not loading correctly
  • We've identified the issue and patched it in the new version
• Enterprise: Enterprise users who are members in their organization will no longer see the Dashboard icon on the side navbar
  • This is to reduce confusion; only an administrator/organization owner can view the Dashboard
• Register: Page has been optimized for better load times when cached
  • Users may still encounter slower load times on cold starts (this will be monitored and improved in the future)

Shared Collections, import/export Feeds, and more improvements

Take advantage of the power of collaboration with this week's update to Collections and Feeds! This week's update also features several patches and updates for an even smoother, bug-free experience.

✨ New

• Collections: Enterprise users can now share collections with other users within their organization on SciLynk!
  • Permissions control has been implemented to allow for setting users as editors or viewers.
• Feeds: Added import/export controls to allow for the easy sharing and creation of feeds
  • Export a feed by generating a SciLynk feed code
  • Other SciLynk users can copy this code and import it to easily create the same feed.

💡 Improvements

• Search: Performance has been optimized and search metadata has been added
  • Number of results and response time is now displayed at the top of searches
  • Display/loading states have been improved
  • Funder entity has been added to the search results and search bar
• Papers: Panel for saving papers has been improved to be more clear and consistent
• Authors: More data is now being displayed about an author
  • These include h-index, i-10 index, and last time the data was updated.
• Entity Page Caching Issue: Users were encountering issues with papers on two pages of the same entity type not updating
  • We've identified the issue and patched it in the new version
• Publications/Citations Graph: Improved legends/axis readability and wording consistency

Major revamps, new Enterprise features, and what's up next

Happy Independence Day! A lot of major changes to talk about for SciLynk. Some highlights include the revamped Feeds, Collections, and the addition of new Enterprise features! We'll also be talking about what's coming up next at the bottom of this post 👀!

✨ New

Enterprise users can now create an Organization on SciLynk!

• Organization dashboard for administrators is now in beta
  • We're open to feedback! If you encounter a bug or have features you'd like to see, let us know!
• Features include:
  • Overview with basic analytics, recently viewed papers from organization
  • Users overview with ability to invite, edit, and remove users from your organization
  • Settings with option to rename organization, more to come soon!

💡 Improvements

• Feeds: Updated feed controls to be more compact and creation flow
  • Added the ability to edit your feed name and keywords
• Collections: Updated controls and creation flow
• Incorrect Password Bug: Several users encountered incorrect password errors while logging in
  • We've identified the issue, alerted the affected users, and patched it in the new version
• Lynx Caching Issue: Users were encountering issues with Lynx not updating when a new query was entered
  • We've identified the issue and patched it in the new version
• AWS SDK: Updated to latest version
• Navigation: Updated to reflect the removal of Notes, minor visual changes for better consistency
• Filter Widget: Rephrased for clearer wording
• Global Layout: Minor changes to styling, color palette consistency, and padding
• Login/Register Page: Minor changes to layout
• Blog/Changelog: Changed image formats to .webp for better performance

🗑️ Removed

• Notes: After some careful consideration, we've decided to remove the notes feature entirely from SciLynk

⏳ Upcoming

• More Enterprise features
• Dedicated roadmap page for better readibility + more transparency
• Improvements to Feeds

New landing, new looks, and more

We want to make sure our users can identify with our team and platform more. With our new landing page tree, you will be able to see more comprehensive details about the platform itself and insights into our teams' updates!

✨ New

• About Page: Get to know our mission and team better with our new about page.
• Changelog: Our team is committed to maintaining transparency about our updates to hold ourselves accountable to our users.
• Contact Us: Nothing to explain here, just an easy way to contact our team!
• Press Kit: New guidelines and assets for usage of the SciLynk brand online.
• Status: Check SciLynk's statuses on our status page for updates on issues with feeds, data, Lynx, etc.

💡 Improvements

• Landing page: Our landing page is revamped to match the rest of the site's aesthetic. Enjoy a more comprehensive and futuristic outlook on SciLynk's facets.

🗑️ Removed

• Landing Demo: The landing page demo for searching for papers has been removed.

🎉 Public Beta

We're happy to announce SciLynk is in public beta! You can now register without an invite here! If you encounter any bugs or issues, don't hesitate to let the team know at support@scilynk.com :)

✨ New

• Keyword-based feeds: Feeds now use custom keywords instead of choosing from a limited pool of concepts.
• Dark mode: SciLynk is now dark themed (we will be adding a toggle between light and dark if it is highly requested).
• Collection Exports: Export collections to BibTeX files to sync SciLynk collections with your favorite reference management softwares.

💡 Improvements

• Faster search entity toggling
• Improved feed specifity
• Increased range of recency for feed publications

🗑️ Removed

• Concept-based feeds: These feeds no longer are supported by SciLynk. If you need help deleting them or creating new ones, contact us.