Over the past year we’ve continued to make improvements to Researchfish. As ever, our plans are informed by feedback from user research and behaviour analytics, as well as requests from our clients.

Reducing and simplifying the reporting process

Key enhancements and changes this year include:

• Introduction of support for outcome prioritisation to guide reporting. For each of the 15 common outcome types, funder and centre administrators can designate whether reporting is a low priority or not required, and this prioritisation can be adjusted on a per-award basis.
• The process for creating “Further Funding” outcomes has been streamlined, making it easier to understand. These changes also enhance searchability, increasing the likelihood that researchers can search and select the grant awards they need to report as “Further Funding”, rather than having to enter it manually.
• The transition of our support documentation and content to HelpJuice, a third-party Knowledge Base platform, has been completed. This makes it easier for Researchfish users to find answers and provides insight into which areas of documentation are most in need of improvement.
• We’ve started to adopt Graphene, Elsevier’s design system. Over time the entire Researchfish platform will be moved to Graphene, helping ensure a consistent look and feel with other Elsevier products.

Other notable platform enhancements

• Rewritten the “RHT process” that manages how grant data is added and maintained in Researchfish. This delivers some immediate benefits including improved automated validation and scalability; and lays the groundwork for future integrations with grant-management systems.
• Introduced optional Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), with clients able to enforce MFA for their Researchfish administrative staff if desired.
• Ongoing updates to system infrastructure, including smaller functional improvements, bug fixes, and data refreshes. 

For full details, see the product release notes.