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Features

• Smart Search
• CST configuration UI improvements, research question refinement added
• Records with FT uploaded moved to the front of relevant queues
• Ref ID inspector typeahead

Bug Fixes

• Maintain proper date attribution for “Other Sources” with updated source attribution
• RIS import more robust to nonstandard date formats
• Improved robustness for enormous FT PDF download

Bug Fixes

• Export of lists (ordered and unordered) in comments

Bug Fixes

• XLSX exports encode truly empty cells instead of cells containing an empty value
• Performance improvements to related reports search in nests with many searches
• Search Exploration robustness when MeSH API is down
• Server tuning for sporadic failed responses
• Placing safety limits on XLSX downloads for extremely large tables

Features

• Designate “Other Sources” attribution in PRISMA Diagram
• Updated home page
• Adding tool tips to various buttons (PDF viewer, tag config, editor)

Bug Fixes

• Newly created tags may become roots if name is immediately edited following repositioning
• Tag application audit details obscured at bottoms rows of table

Features

• Convert HTML in abstracts to plaintext in RIS imports
• Supervised screening model speed ups
• Counting number of records & includes/advances in screening model performance history table
• Improved robustness (automatic retries) and error reporting when external automatic searches (e.g. PubMed) are down or flaky

Bug Fixes

• Corrected wording in PRISMA flow diagram for total report count in new reviews
• Restoring related report linkout to new tab in AutoLit
• Restoring text contents display on Synthesis for for area annotations
• Dashboard loading problems when Study Card study is deleted from a nest or marked duplicate
• Corrected reviewer-level screening Inspector Filter for specific users
• Protected QLS with sharing disabled missing file download in sharing options
• Incorrect LinkedIn Synthesis share link

Features

• Export Table Contents: concatenate operation in addition to join
• Name literature searches (shown in Inspector, History, CER Builder, Synthesis PRISMA)
• Search related reports via primary/secondary/any type in Inspector
• Search related reports via family name in the Related Reports tab
• Freeze column headers in table contents extraction form and Synthesis tables.

Bug Fixes

• Clean up of Nests listing page labelling
• Broken link out to org ownership reassignment during user account deletion
• Tag text options maintained when switching content types
• Maintainence of authentication integration

Features

• Site wide performance improvements (particularly for slow server responses in large nests)

Features

• Improved Synthesis Study Display:
  • Responsive
  • Added data:
    • Full Texts (configured, private nests only)
    • Supplements (configured, private nests only)
    • Related reports
  • With annotations
  • Including dashboard cards

Bug Fixes

• Nest copy failing when dashboard contains entirely invalid cards
• Disassociate restored nest versions from the progenitor to avoid cascaded deletes
• Allow table card download from dashboard in protected Synthesis

Features

• Core Smart Tag Improvements
  • More detail in constructured Intervention & Outcome taxonomies
  • Improved contextualization of PICO annotations
  • Improved annotation placement (favoring relevant sections of the abstract, when available)
  • Abstract tag recommendations are automatically turned on when CST recommendations are enabled
• Tracking and reporting the full history of screening model performance
• Improved explanation/documentation of screening model performance measures
• QNS Summary Table visual presentation
• Table Builder improvements:
  • Sort
  • Table Builder left/right alignment based on data type
  • Click a row (for Study/Study Arm tables) to open the study modal
• Tag Configuration improvements:
  • Restored parent tag selector (in addition to DnD)
  • Removal of tag auto-creation in favor explicit create (button/enter)

Bug Fixes

• Corrected PICO CSTs not being movable in Tag Configuration
• Improved highlighting and labelling of clicks/hovers in CST visuals
• Improved histogram x-axis labelling to avoid overlapping
• Security updates around visuals
• Corrected ambiguous wording in two pass abstract screening import instructions
• Allocation Inspector unable to filter by reviewer count

Bug Fixes

• Import post-processing speed ups (CSTs, Robot Screener)

Features

• Configuration of default QLS visual type
• Removal of linkout from embeds

Bug Fixes

• FBT questions not focusing with clicks on UI elements
• Europe PMC imports failing when record contains 0 authors
• Template import crashing when switching templates with import tag selected
• Robustness improvements in CST generation

Features

• Core Smart Tags
  • PICOs
  • Study Type
  • Study Location
  • Study Size
• Acronym Dictionary in Explore
• Tag Dashboard Card
• Import Abstract Screening Decisions
• Explore Publication Date

Bug Fixes

• Screening Model robust to entirely missing data (e.g. no keywords)
• Screening Model, if trained, will run on newly imported records
• RIS imports may include stray tags not belonging to a record (e.g. C1 tags from Embase)

Features

• Unpaywall full text retrieval robustness
• Fulfillment policy added to checkout

Features

• Inspector column designation and ordering improvements
• Inspector singular tag column
• Fixed width columns with improved overflow behavior and text wrap in table contents extraction
• Improved dashboard editing and hover actions behavior
• Edit Publication Type in bibliographic data
• Separate Ti/Ab Inspector filtering

Features

• Numeric Tag Contents
• Advanced Tag Contents filtering facets in Study Inspector

Features

• SIGN and JBI Critical Appraisal tools implemented across all supported study designs
• Sticky Ask AI responses
• Name of Dashboard downloads matches card name
• Filters for the screening model that don't require finding the model threshold (+ jump to filter from the Screening Model modal)
• Option for full citation export within CER Builder
• Restoring specification of the parent tag within on-the-fly tag creation
• Improved overflow and scrollability of radiobars in limited spaces

Bug Fixes

• Corrupted special characters in tag text options configuration
• Eliminated issue in updating organization subscriptions with large numbers of users

Bug Fixes

• Module completion filter in inspector always showing incomplete studies
• Broken collaboration documentation link

Bug Fixes

• Restore copy/versioning for particularly large nests

Features

• Boolean operators for Inspector
• Randomize order of studies in screening queue

Bug Fixes

• Smart tag recommendations fixed
• Screening queue peformance improvements

Features

• Recursive tag deletion
• Automatically unlock PDFs uploaded for bibliomining and expert addition by PDF
• Configure question type for organization tag templates
• Ovid MEDLINE search engine option

Bug Fixes

• Not all included studies appearing in dashboard Study card.
• Whitespacing display in Insights
• Improving robustness of Screening Model and Smart Tagging to study and tag deletion
• Improving CrossRef access through better treatment of API rate limits

Features

• Synthesis versioning
• Notification emails for recurring searches
• Teams inherit templates from parent organization
• Bibliomine attempts are now included in nest copies
• Upon creation, new nests are placed in the folder the user had opened

Bug Fixes

• Smart tags automatically regenerating for included records with FT attached
  Studies without authors not appearing in QNS
• Multi-node jats import (most relevant to abstracts from CrossRef)
• Table contents import with title matching no longer imports one row and removes others
• Improved search, nest, and duplicate queue deletion times

Features

• Applied tags as annotations in individual and bulk FT PDF download
• Nests with non-public Synthesis access shown on Nest Listing

Bug Fixes

• Library security patches
• Protected Synthesis links not perpetuated on mobile
• Home page layout on mobile
• Removing possibility of creating multiple baseline or outcome timepoints for a given study & data element

Features

• Tag Configuration overhaul
  • More intuitive forms
  • Zoomable hierarchy
  • Switch orientation of hierarchy
  • Drag and drop positioning and ordering
  • Multi-tag selection for Tag Deletion and Hiding
• QLS tag visualization improvement
• Hot key screening
  • Enable via modal with ctrl+shift+s
• Select specific studies in bulk for bibliomine
• Support for Two Pass screening in CER Builder Screening export
• Numerous file naming schemes for FT download from Inspector
• Setting to disable all but file download share options in Synthesis
• List Synthesis access from Nests (renamed from AutoLit Home)
• Allow larger bulk FT imports (excepting unpaywall)
• Date filtering UI for all automatic search creation
• Quarterly recurring searches

Bug Fixes

• Table Horizontal overflow and scrolling behavior
• SUCRA rankings not respecting “Higher Better” setting of Data Elements
• Isolated negated top-level concepts dropped from Search Exploration when positive groups are present
• Search deletion button missing in certain browsers

Features

• Ask AI (documentation)
• Collaborator Organizations
• Improved subscription checkout layout

Bug Fixes

• Faster categorical metric retrieval for MA Extraction in large nests
• Arrow key navigation of tag tables and MA Extraction in Inspector should not jump to next record

Features

• Import Tag Table Contents
• PRISMA exclusion reason grouping
• Synthesis QoL improvements
  • Last viewed tab in study modal made sticky
  • Highlighting filtered tags in study modal
  • Only displaying relevant modules as configured (no disabled state)
  • Navigate study modal with arrow keys
• Navigate Inspector with arrow keys
• Generate a sharable link to the current record from the Reference pill
• Integrating the new ClinicalTrials.gov API

Bug Fixes

• I² icon missing on QNS
• Recursive tag filter indicator missing on Inspector
• Make the Inspector screening filter more robust to screening mode changes

Features

• Screening auto-adjudication with Any, Exact, and Shared modes
• Manuscript download from Synthesis
• Live DOI/Links from Table Builder tables on site
• Import data via External ID
• Team admins that are not org admins ability to manage users
• Share from Embeds
• Inspector: filter to multiple comma-separated Ref IDs
• Created At and Included Record columns on AutoLit Home
• Indicator of last opened record in Study Inspector
• Improved consistency of Standard and Two Pass screening decisions upon mode switch

Bug Fixes

• Images inserted in abstract editor not appearing on Synthesis
• MA Extraction crashes upon deletion of partial timepoint
• Prefer table contents over text options when both configured
• Manually created concepts in Search Exploration are not assigned their expected group
• Navigated QLS Insights do not appear with description open
• Improved display (min width) of wide configured tag table contents
• Smart Tagging robustness improvements

Bug Fixes

• Admins unable to add members to Organizations

Features

• Teams within organizations as an access entity
• Nest invites appear on AutoLit Home
• Filter to & display as a column Publication Type, Inspector and Table Builder
• Add numerous missing bibliographic data columns to Table Builder
• Filter to any empty & non-empty bibliographic field in Inspector (“Bibliographic Status”)
• Adjustable column widths in Inspector

Bug Fixes

• Proper 0-padding in all dates for fixed widths
• Improved interface for editing Related Report family name
• Truncate long root tag names in FBT root selection to avoid overflow
• Publication Date filter in Inspector shows off-by-1

Bug Fixes

• Improved quality of icons throughout the site
• Allow tag recommendations when tag is configured for text options
• Inspector tag contents filter
• Easing the transition from standard to FBT with implied completion for single apply questions
• Allow on-the-fly deletion of table columns
• Proper error message when creating an organization with a pre-existing name

Bug Fixes

• Import of public tagging templates

Features

• Text options contents in Tagging
• Text options in table contents in Tagging
• Honor FBT in Screening Tagging
• Inspector filters for reviewer screening agreement/disagreement
• Upgrading GPT 3.5 to GPT 4 Turbo in AB Smart Tagging
• Speed improvements to Smart Tagging

Bug Fixes

• Uniform date presentation (ISO) throughout the site
• Search tags with table contents in table builder
• Alias search within tag selection menus
• More explicit nest limit exceeded message for free tier paywall
• Avoid related reports marked as duplicates from appearing in related report families
• Correct ordering of tag selection menu in table builder
• Glitchy download/edit tooltip in Dashboard

Bug Fixes

• Proper copy of related report families
• Protected Synthesis Home inaccessible without login
• URI decoding for DOIs embedded in URLs

Features

• Related reports improvements:
  • View applied tags of related reports during tagging
  • Exporting related report family with filters and column
• Filter Synthesis on study attributes

Bug Fixes

• Better handling large and homogenous inputs in Smart Tagging

Bug Fixes

• Full text viewer getting cut off
• Prevent whitespace addition to abstracts in bibliographic edit

Features

• KW/PICO highlighting in title as well as abstract

Bug Fixes

• Update Inspector columns immediately upon selection
• Handle duplicate (case-insensitive) tag names in sheet-per-root table export
• Flakey manual import from unpaywall

Features

• Show Ref ID & Author/Year for all study display modes
• “Reviewed By” Screening Filters and Columns
• Snappier AL Home load in

Bug Fixes

• Avoid vertical overflow of all study display modes (FT & Supplement views)
• Avoid cycle creation in tag merge of parent/child
• Occasionally incorrect paywall message on Nest creation
• Login session disappears for certain error pages
• Exporting sheet names with special characters and other Excel-specific requirements

Features

• Grouping questions to forms by root tags in FBT
• Exporting tagging with columns grouped by root tag
• Import documents via external id

Bug Fixes

• Exporting MA Extraction with >2 timepoints extracted in a data element
• Optimizations in templated tag management
• Delay in org access upon accepting invite
• Copying nest with created and emptied dashboard

Features

• Article Galaxy Integration
• Self-service pilot subscriptions
• Free tier enforcement
  • Allow only 1 nest
  • Disallow addition of unsubscribed collaborators (individuals and organizations)

Bug Fixes

• Affinity of nest activity counts, standard inspector filters, and queue progress bars for two pass screening modes
• Improved messaging for spotty internet connections and automated retries
• Enabling search in table builder tag column creation
• Only organizations a user is a member of may be added to nests
• Better messaging on enforcement of subscription quantity limits

Features

• Tag and annotate supplemental materials
• Import literature searches directly from spreadsheets
• Use aliases in standard AB & FT tag recommendations
• Public Templates
• Template descriptions

Bug Fixes

• Update applied tag when prior tag contained table contents
• Correcting ClinicalTrials.gov linkout

Bug Fixes

• Allow Protected Synthesis without authentication on mobile

Features

• Related Reports in Inspector: Primary Report column and filter
• Duplicate Review and count shown in Literature Search
• FBT as the default tagging mode
• Pricing updates

Bug Fixes

• Loss of UI controls when reordering exclusion reasons with a drop out of the table
• Changing nest organization owner occassionally results in 400

Bug Fixes

• Unable to import nest tag hierarchies into org templates

Features

• Hierarchical exclusion reasons
• Ref ID-based data import
• Resizable table columns in dashboard
• xlsx table builder exports
• Synthesis view counts for dashboard

Bug Fixes

• Don't show org billing message when adding users to nest
• Proper filename for dashboard table download
• Removal of Mobile AutoLit
• FT Uploads do not count towards “Report Sought” in PRISMA 2020
• Proper overwrite behavior for tag import (no repeated applied tags)

Bug Fixes

• Nest Copy with file attachments in Protocol

Features

• Ref ID export in Table Builder

Bug Fixes

• Exporting Table of: Tag in table builder
• Incorrect Unpaywall counts at end of bulk import
• Unable to bibliomine articles containing duplicate references

Bug Fixes

• Authorization error in tag apply bulk action

Features

• Table Contents in Export, Dashboard, and Manuscript table builder
  • Joins to export multiple tables
• Abstract-level tag recommendations
  • Standard
  • Smart (GPT-3.5)

Bug Fixes

• Incorrect inclusion/exclusion counts for Two Pass Screening on the Activity page
• Handle duplicate PMIDs/DOIs in Other Sources
• Swapping categorical data element category names
• Avoiding large search deletion timeout

Features

• Tracking organization membership history / audit
• Improved subscription management information
• 2009 PRISMA flow diagram support

Bug Fixes

• Display whitespacing in questions in Forms Based Tagging
• Swapping categorical data element category names
• Avoiding large search deletion timeout

Features

• Increase Smart Tag Recommendation study limit to 250
• Add title search to Related Report lookup

Bug Fixes

• Longer organization search bar in nest access
• Avoid display of deletion and rename options for nests on AutoLit home
• Disable QNS by default, to match Meta-Analytical Extraction default
• Improved robustness of Smart Tag Recommendations: concurrent runs and long PDFs
• Remove line numbers from query editor in Literature Search creation
• Detach PubMed API dependency from Literature Search creation in event of outage
• Study Focus modal and Dashboard card sizing & overflow behavior
• Increased request timeout for higher latency internet connections

Bug Fixes

• Keeping a manually marked duplicate from the duplicate queue

Bug Fixes

• Sheet import fails with duplicate partial DOIs
• Overflow scrolling in updatable tables
• Rendering 0 counts in Nest Activity consistently
• Missing publication dates appearing as epoch time in updatable tables
• Table contents edits being dropped in FBT when focus changes or table reconfigured
• Hiding nest owner email from Synthesis
• Security patches

Bug Fixes

• Unable to turn on Robot Screener

Features

• Synthesis Dashboard
• Synthesis shareable by QR Code
• Autolit menu layout update
• Progress queue query reduction for improved scaling
• Bulk action: accept all smart tag recommendations
• ROBINS I added to CA

Bug Fixes

• Unable to select tags in Protected QLS

Features

• Blinding settings:
  • Revealing reviewer names in adjudication modules
  • Hide comments in all modules
  • Hide tagging during screening

Bug Fixes

• Finalizing searches from Search Exploration
• Mobile AL home

Features

• Smart tagging improvements:
  • Process more of the full text
  • Better handling of partial results from GPT
  • Improved link-back to the full text PDF
• Import book chapters from PubMed

Bug Fixes

• Allow editing of custom tables with deleted tags in manuscript
• Properly import records with rich text keywords from PubMed
• Allow deletion of the last exclusion reason in a nest
• Nest Abstract not displaying in Synthesis

Bug Fixes

• AL Home not loading on refresh with Organization scoping selected

Features

• Improved error, authentication, and authorization pages
• Inspector additions:
  • Bibliographic keyword filter
  • Full citation column (JAMA)
  • Author list column

Bug Fixes

• Deletion of extremely long concepts in Search Exploration

Features

• CER Demo Nest

Bug Fixes

• Bulk bibliographic sync for missing and invalid identifiers

Bug Fixes

• Awaiting Screening linkout broken from Nest Activity page

Features

• Smart Tag Recommendations
  • Tag Recommendations in Form Based Tagging
• Revamped Nest Activity page (formerly Dashboard)
• Duplicate Queue download

Bug Fixes

• Properly order tag contents columns in Inspector exports
• Match order of screening reviewers in Inspector exports and adjudication pages
• Tag import in nest with 0 prior tags
• Improvements to mobile UX and layout

Features

• Rename “Extraction” to “Meta-Analytical Extraction” module
  • Default off for new nests

Bug Fixes

• Allow multiple period characters in file names for bulk PDF upload
• Robot Screener not consistently entering screening decisions for Dual Two Pass nests
• RIS imports with exceptionally long KWs failing

Bug Fixes

• Improper Medline date parsing for PubMed searches

Features

• Import electronic publication date for records coming from eCollections in PubMed searches
• List number of users on Org Admin
• Improved error logging and tracking

Bug Fixes

• Incorrect Last Accessed date for folders without a nest access on AutoLit Home
• Make query field optional for file-based search imports
• Remove Allocation from Study Inspector Bulk Actions listing
• Add exclusion reasons on the fly broken for standard screening
• Handle concepts with trailing spaces in Search Exploration

Bug Fixes

• Standard tagging page crashing on load
• Miniature demo creation button icons

Features

• Ref IDs
  • Filter & Column in Inspector & Allocation Inspector
  • Matching for bulk document import
  • Exported in RIS
• Supplemental materials bulk import
• Bulk document deletion
  • Full Text
  • Supplemental Materials
• Improved email reporting of bulk import results
• New HTA demo nest

Bug Fixes

• Improved, one-click layout changes when AutoLit panels are at minimum and maxmimum extent
• Unable to disable Critical Appraisal in Synthesis
• Improper ordering of tag contents columns in tag configuration preview

Features

• Toggle between Sunburst and Hierarchy in embedded QLS

Bug Fixes

• Add extra publication date fields to RIS files (PY, Y1)
• Disable double click deletion of searches
• Disable creation of searches with empty queries

Bug Fixes

• Inspector Full Text filter on specific source
• Bulk FT import failing when one or more PDFs are encrypted
• EuropePMC searches failing when records have null keywords

Features

• Generalizing Risk of Bias module to Critical Appraisal
• Adding Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for Critical Appraisal
• New bibliographic Inspector columns: volume, issue, pages, and NCT ID

Bug Fixes

• Unable to add columns to tables of tags in Manuscript
• Added explanation of dangerous admin settings

Features

• Bigger and faster bulk full text upload and matching

Features

• Screening Model Improvements:
  • OpenAI embeddings
  • Scite tallies
  • Oversampling
• Advancement probability for two pass screening
• Robot Screener for abstract screening

Bug Fixes

• Deprioritize Robot Screener in Auto-Adjudication
• Numerical instability in QNS NMA for multi-arm studies with similar standard errors
• Relaxed PDF upload validations
• FT Blinding reappearing upon PDF upload

Bug Fixes

• Queues and progress bars for dual two pass screening properly handle switches between screening modes and off-workflow actions in inspector

Bug Fixes

• Correct font not appearing on all clients
• API search not executing through Literature Search UI
• Unable to view duplicate review bibliographic data

Features

• Allocation

Bug Fixes

• Database security patches
• Number of reviewers displayed for dual standard screening

Features

• User specified ordering of exclusion reasons
• Color coding user keywords
• Form Based Tagging question search & status indicator
• Display number of prior reviewers for dual screening modes
• Sticky AB/FT view in Inspector
• Font change

Bug Fixes

• Configuring Synthesis Access is laggy
• Tag import option is obscured by visual
• Double whitespacing in certain PDF annotations

Bug Fixes

• Downloading CSVs from QLS with protected Synthesis
• Added CSP
• Added HSTS

Bug Fixes

• Redirect to new nest upon creation
• Search exploration n-grams functionality returned

Features

• Blinding of full text status for dual screening modes
• Convert doc(x) study supplements to viewable PDFs on upload
• Hover text for sunburst is directly over the label
• Share button on QLS-specfic embeds

Bug Fixes

• Don't show 0 unscreened record counts in PRISMA diagram
• Site-wide load time improvements

Features

• Tag Table Contents

Bug Fixes

• Remove module completion selector from sequential module queues

Bug Fixes

• Updating tagging completion status for single records

Features

• Mark modules complete for individual records from Inspector
• Continuously adjustable module box widths (Screening, Tagging, Extraction, RoB)
• Export Comments from Inspector
• Jump to records in Inspector from Literature Search

• Create tags in-process for Form Based Tagging
• PDF annotation breaking for certain PDFs (UTF-8 null characters)

• Tag selection menu not properly closing in Form Based Tagging

• Reorder tags
• Avoid orphaning tags on merge and delete

• Improved visualization of overlapped tags in large hierarchies
• Sheet based search import method showing API

• Export studies and tags from QLS
• Inspector filter for Tag Contents
• Reorder columns in Table Builder export

• Clarifying Insight Embed UI
• Highlighting the hovered root tag in tag config

• Sync updated bibliographic data: per-record and bulk action

• Broken RoB Visuals
• Tag config styling problems

• Hiding tags on Synthesis
• Updated tag hierarchy visualization in AutoLit
• Export through Inspector
  • Moved Extraction and RoB from Export page
  • Added Screening & Tagging export
• Organizational owner may receive emails on public Synthesis change

• Bypassing invalid DOIs in sheet-based literature search import

• Form Based Tagging dropping excerpt on any click
• Improved arm creation, read-only cells, and status marking in Dual Extraction Adjudication
• Making overflow of concepts scrollable in Search Exploration

• Abstract annotation for tagging
• Import lit searches as spreadsheets of PMID/DOI

• Update PICO highlighting when abstract is edited
• Correcting IRR counts (exclude/exclude counted as include/include)

• Organizational Folders on AutoLit home

• Improved layout of floating elements in QLS & embeds
• Tag tip positioning in extraction is consistently visible

• Nest Backup
• Return of the QLS Dendrogram

• Truncating display of long nest names
• Incorrectly positioned tool tips on PDF viewer
• FT Import volume issues
• Log in / Sign in wording consistency

• Search Exploration v4, featuring concept generalization & improved workflow

• Negations in tag queries against all studies, not just studies with 1 or more tags

• Full text search performance improvements

• Support long API-based queries (>8k characters)

• Scrolling issues in Form-based Tagging
• Increased timeout on a number of requests
• Auto-refreshing background jobs table

• Manual FT import broken; improperly attributing source of the file

• Bulk import of Full Text PDFs with auto-matching
• Background job (searches, FT matching, model training) status tracking
• Performance improvements to FT import

• Restyle of QNS and zoom out
• Consistent scroll bars returned to the site

• Recurring searches causing server overload
• Overflow on nest home

• Import of tagging data with invalid UTF-8 characters
• Nests not sticking in folders on AutoLit home

• Folder organization of nests on AutoLit
• Heterogeneity statistics on QNS
• Funnel plots on QNS

• Radio button style/a11y improvements
• Maintain Inspector filters when responsively switching modes

• PRISMA diagram showing 0 counts for all categories

• Import previously gathered screening, tagging from sheets

• Protected Synthesis

• Bulk Full Text downloads properly unnzipping on windows
• Increase in Manuscript reference list font size (accessibility)

• DOAJ Updates
  • Correct newlines & other whitespace problems in searches
  • Truncate searches to top 1000 records, per DOAJ limit
  • Added DOAJ documentation for search creation

• Tag edit opening after saving Data Elements
• Tag question type not saving upon tag creation
• Typos/improved descriptions for FBT

• Form-based Tagging
• Improvements to related reports, Synthesis author ordering UX

• Allowing text selection in study abstract
• Added nest materials to nest copy

• Expert recommendation by bulk PDF upload (bibliographic data mined + FT attached)
• Nest Copy includes complete data (most notably Manuscript, Insights)
• Reworked layout for AutoLit Menu & Nest Home
  • User-level setting are inlined to respective modules
  • Protocol is edited on Nest Home directly
  • One Study Inspector link

• Embed/share all Synthesis types
• Display Synthesis authors with abstract
  • Improved author ordering UI
• Capability to share Synthesis for a private nest
• Improved placeholders & directives for building Synthesis when empty

• Tag import message for nests without an organizational owner
• Proper edit icon color for exclusion reason configuration

• Dual Two Pass Screening

• Proper layout in organizational tag template import
• Unscreening option in inspector typeahead

• Supporting Annual Subscriptions

• Full text import Bulk Action modal not closing on completion

• Improved Bulk Actions UI
• New Bulk Actions
  • Mark Full Text Review
  • Reviewer-level control over dual mode decisions
• Better wiki linking for file-based search import

• Proper labelling of screening form for dual screening
• Checkbox-based selection of RoB Data Elements

• Added comments to RoB export
• Improved a11y labels in Synthesis

• Disabling selection of empty exclusion reasons
• Enabling button-based addition of user-keywords

• Synthesis home restyle and updates
• New Synthesis embeds
  • Full Synthesis
  • All pages (QNS, PRISMA, RoB, Manuscript) embeddable

• New, distinct Sign Up page
  • Gather agreement to terms and user name in advance of credentials
• Bibliomining upgrades
  • 5-10x speed improvements with to improved CrossRef querying
  • Maintaining order of references from bibliography

• Tagging Recommendations

• Screening form UI improvements
  • Hover focus on exclusion reasons
  • Removed jitter when iterating records
• More precise wording of several Inspector filters
• Removed support for TLS 1.0 & 1.1
• DMARC support via DKIM/SPF: more robust email

• Insights on Synthesis
• One click exclusions
• Edit nest & study level comments

• Improved tag export options
  • “Exact” tag export
  • Adding all (exact) tags as columns
• Indicating tagged interventions in Extraction
• Consistent color schemes within Extraction

• Mark duplicate records manually
• Maintain multiple, related reports of a study
• Bibliomine from ClinicalTrials.gov using NCT ID

• Site-wide UI improvements, especially focused on a11y, improved contrast, and reduced color distraction

• Fixing RoboPICO backfill for large searches

• Corrected broken links in emails from mentions in nest-level comments

• Tagging closed by default for non-tagging modules
• Ability to enter discount codes and tax ids at subscription checkout

• Faster import of large searches (RoboPICOs are backfilled when > 500 records imported)
• Preventing duplicate reviewer-level dual screening decisions
• No sizing jitter for Full Text PDF viewer
• Preferring Support page linkout over support@ mailto link

• scite.ai integration: citation badges
• Duplicate information in CER Builder

• Display applied tags with no associated user (e.g. bulk actions, user account deleted) in AutoLit

• Robot Screener
• External ID in Table Builder
• Taxes included in Stripe checkout

• Performance improvement in Table Builder and Manuscript editor
• Removing jitter in tooltip display

• ClinicalTrials.gov integration
  • NCT Number added as a bibliographic field
• Europe PMC integration
• Query writing guidance for integrated databases
• Improved Qualitative Synthesis zoom mode
• Site-wide improvement of scrollbar appearance (especially on Windows platform)
• Adding time value & units to extraction export
• Export of categorical Data Elements in table builder
• Last modified time & user for tags & RoB forms
• Embase ID columns & filters in inspector

• Treating .txt as RIS in file-based search upload
• Explicit allowed file types in search upload
• Color correction of tabs in extraction configuration

• PMC ID filter in Study Inspector properly executes, and handles non-numeric inputs

• Making nest keywords editable from Screening Configuration

• Import full affiliation for EMBASE RIS imports
• Study inspector sorting all records even when top 100 are displayed
• Adding back progress bar for Screening Adjudication
• Corrected PRISMA report/record wording
• Properly display public Synthesis for non-logged-in users

• CER Builder

• Dual Extraction

• Full Text Search in Inspector
• Reduced dependency on DOI in deduplication (specifically, solving conference abstracts)

• No redirect to AutoLit Home upon login from originally requested page, unless on at landing page
• User Keywords do not appear editable from Synthesis

• Custom Search Engines
• Unscreening
• Download bibliomined PDFs
• About link in navbar

• Importing full author affiliations from RIS files
• Searching user name, in addition to email, in user mentions

• Two pass screening (separate screening queues for title/abstract & full text)
• Author affiliation search filter in inspector
• Full text review filter in inspector

• Improved inspector performance for very large (>10k records) nests
• Navigate to next record in dual screening adjudication when overriding determination
• Increase in abstract text line height

• Manage subscriptions & payment on the site, on an individual & organizational basis
• Modify bibliographic data directly on Add Individual References
• New Search Engines
• PDF Annotations included in tag merge

• Supporting lit search vennn diagrams for very large nests
• Correct intersection of multiple literature search filters on Inspector

• Nest deletion button disabled for non-admins
• Increased upload timeout on large files
• Nest invite email corrections

• Displaying size of search venn diagram pieces

• Faster upload and processing of large (5000+ records) file-based ris/nbib imports
• Consistent PICO predictions upon upload
  • Backfill for all records without PICO predictions

• User Invites
  • Adding users to nests & organizations now requires a complete email (privacy measure)
  • Invited user receives an email & an option to accept or decline the invite
  • Org admins receive email from users requesting to join their org
  • Emails without an account may inherit their invited permissions upon account creation
• Full citation export in tables
• Tag description made available in tagging
• Auto-selection of exclusion reasons upon on-the-fly creation

• Loading a mentioned study when not logged in no longer covers the login button
• Supporting PubMed queries over 4,000 characters long

• Duplicate Queue Improvements:
  • Ability to clear the queue, dropping or keeping all records for screening
  • Displaying number of duplicate records

• Proper attribution of triplicate+ records in the Duplicate Queue
• Defaulting data extraction configurationn mode to Data Elements (no hot click to reassign intervention root)
• Defaulting file-based import dates

• Full suite of PDF functions
  • Rotate
  • Zoom
  • Download
  • Delete
• Improved switching between reviewer-level (“You”) and adjudicating screening modes in dual-configured nests
• New home page
• New support page

• Improved display of extraction on horizontally constrained data elements

• Differentiaing inspector screening status for nests with dual screening configured in:
  • filters
  • column options
• Ability to filter to specific bibliomined files in inspector

• Properly deleting bibliomine attempts

• Synthesis RoB visuals only display included studies
• Synthesis RoB visuals only display domains where risk is relevant

• Preparation for new PubMed API (achieveing parity with PubMed web ~June 2022)

• Allowing tagging with an initially empty hierarchy
• Truncating overflowing PICO pills in Search Exploration
• Allowing deletion of tags corresponding to the configured intervention root

• Display a login prompt when visiting AutoLit home not logged in
• Properly handling email preferences from account management
• Reduced app size

• Extraction improvements:
  • Transitioned from study-level timepoints to data element-level timepoints
  • Ability to extract arbitrary many more timepoints than just Baseline/Outcome timepoints
  • Variable units in timepoint specification
  • Displaying continuous data element units in central tendency header
  • One-click metric deletion
• Tag export
• New site navbar
• Improved language around tag deletion

• Merge & edit bibliographic fields in duplication review
• New “plain” cursor mode in PDF viewer
• Improved labeling and ordering of comments & mentions
• Updates to citation string format

• Clearing an annotation in the PDF viewer clears any excerpt text as well

• Timezone attached to publication dates causing incorrect bibliographic details

• Retain tag descriptions in tag template creation & import
• Fix sporadic crashes of PDF Viewer for large files
• Fix tag selection drop jittering on vertically constrained pages

• Bibliographic data editing fixes - PMID & publication dates < 1970

• Exploded tag searching in Inspector
• New user improvements:
  • Account management updates
  • Guided nest creation wording & UX
  • New nest tips auto-open
• Added pricing info to free tier paywall

• Notes for literature searches

• Remove “Full Text” linkouts from rich text citation strings when DOI is not present for record

• Templated Nest Protocols
• Copy record-level rich text citations to clipboard
• Run searches immediately upon creation

• Missing spaces in some PDF tagging selections

• Enabling larger searches (up to 10k records)
• Emails for new user accounts

• Broken PMC linkout
• Author first/last name ordering in exports
• Clearer language for email verification
• Syncing NK email preferences with release & marketing email preferences

• Tag deletion restored
• Do not attempt scroll-to in Extraction when DE tag is not applied
• Deduplicating references within bibliomining attempts

• AutoLit Tips
• Tag Templating at the Organization level
• Automatic retraining of Inclusion Models
• Ability to hide Inclusion Predictions (while maintaining ordering)
• Perputation of Org Admin status to Nests

• Properly displaying bibliomine attempts in Inspector Literature Search Filter
• Improved guidance for Inspector typeahead

• Search deletion crashing when studies in duplicate queue

• Organization Management
  • User listing
  • Nest listing
  • Exclusion Reason Templates
• Exclusion reason import
• Persisting comment edits in AutoLit across page navigation & reloads

• Sorting within pinned nests on AutoLit Home

• Site-wide improvements in page load times
• Re-enabling copy to clipboard in PDF viewer

• Scroll-to annotated tags in extraction

• Replace missing icons in Inspector
• Nest Home tabbing display issues

• PDF Annotation-based Tagging
• Within PDF searching
• Nest Demos & Initialization for new users
• Predicted Search sizes

• Differentiating sign in & sign up links
• Tagged DE excerpt orientation
• Reduced client app size (faster loads)

• New Inspector Filters
  • Comments
  • Data Elements
  • Interventions
  • Other bibliographic data
• Titling manuscript and protocol downloads with the nest name
• Persisting inspector filters

• Tagging form reset on study iteration
• Displaying a user icon for users without a profile image
• Cannot enter N=0 in extraction for dichotomous metrics
• Full text export zipping for windows

• Tags suggest Data Elements for Extraction
• Copying comments on Nest copy
• Apply tag after on-the-fly creation
• Democratizing certain nest settings, notably:
  • Protocol editor
  • User keywords
• Editor stlying updates

• Dashboard scrolling
• Vulnerability patches

• Exploration visuals in inspector
• Bibliomining from PDFs
• Bulk expert recommendation from multiple identifiers
• Bulk Full Text & Supplemental material export
• Direct Google Scholar link out
• PMID parsing from mixed text RIS fields

• Dashboard hover text overflow
• Improved Safari compatibility
• Leaking key listener breaking arrow navigation

• Quantitative Synthesis updates
  • Random/fixed effects toggle
  • Plots of univariate & marginal distribution
  • Appropriate axis/coloring scaling/transformations
  • Styling improvements to fit wider site
  • Responsive/Mobile
• RIS export from Inspector
• Apply tags from extracted Data Elements using a Bulk Action
• View and edit external ID from bibliographic data

• Network diagram inaccuracies
• Ability to completely clear an exclusion reason name

• Enter key to apply tags
• Client side error logging
• Updated privacy policy

• SIGN RoB display

• JBI repeated question (case seres), and missing question (quasi-experimental & cohort)
• No caching login credentials following account deletion

• Account deletion
• Numbered citation export in Manuscript

• JBI case series RoB form

• Tag DE merge messaging correction

• Bulk action history + screening undo
• Ordering Exclusion Reasons by frequency

• Citation copy/paste
• Tag, DE, and intervention merging
• Pooling means with 0 SD in updatable tables

• Sticky AutoLit Menu (no more hover)
• Directed Wiki links from AutoLit
• Default Inspector filters
• Improved home page
• General AutoLit style assimilation

• Inspector RoB filtering crashes when no RoB configured
• RoB typeahead high risk filter correctly filters to high risk

• Risk of Bias - forms, Inspector filtering, export, Synthesis (domain distributions & traffic light). Cochrane RoB 2, JBI, and SIGN.
• Exporting study size in table export

• Mobile AutoLit!

• QNS Summary Table empty when only 1 intervention
• Various Search Exploration navigation

• Query Builder

• Disappearing Mention Selection
• “null” displaying for empty last names in user search

Inspector module switcher not present on tagging and extraction.

• Study supplemental materials
• Nest Materials
• QLS excerpt highlighting
• Inspector improvements
  • Updating screening decision does not close study detail
  • Author search typeahead
• User KW highlighting scheme improvements
• Typing '@' in comment box auto-opens mentions

• Proper error message when ID of expert recommendation cannot be found
• Handling unpaywall returning a link to non-PDF content types (most commonly due to DDoS protection measures)

• AutoLit landing page improvements:
  • Search first ~100 words of protocol from AL home
  • Sort columns
  • Display number of records in each nest
• Grouped PICOs displayed as individual pills when PICO collector is collapsed in Search Exploration

• Comment deletion option only displays to owner
• When unpaywall is down, full-text tab no longer crashes
• Site-wide CSRF protections
• Various style fixes, especially around overflow behavior in AutoLit

• Updated Search Exploration workflow
  • Research question specification on nest creation
    • Auto tag creation, keyword creation
  • PICO exploration
• Restyled Literature Search, with added features:
  • Fuzzy term intersections displayed
  • Displaying number of total & included records being deleted when searches are deleted

• Unfocusing gathered tag upon deletion

• On the fly tag creation no longer causing crashes

• Email notification on mention in comments
• Editing gathered tags

• Study Inspector cursor refocusing
• Protocol download filename
• Improved behavior of Data Element configuration overflow
• Ability to add an author when none are present

• Records without authors were causing crashes in screening, tagging, and extraction

• Synthesis components may be embedded on external sites
• Citations to included studies may be added in Manuscript
• Inclusion probability predictions as a column & sort in Study Inspector

• Comments with multiple mentioned users are no longer repeated multiple times in “All Mentions” on Nest Home
• When merging tags that are interventions, study arms of the source intervention are updated to the target intervention