unsub v3.2

• 2022/10/05 Update data in jump_unpaywall_downloads table. Although minor code changes, the major change is the data update, which doesn't change scenarios very much, and changes are the greatest for titles that started publishing since 2019. A summary of the changes is posted in the https://groups.google.com/g/unsub-announce mailing list

unsub v3.1

• 2022/08/30 Improve file upload error messages so they are more clear and cover more cases.

Some example error messages include:

COUNTER file uploads:

• A file encoding issue: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 3524: invalid start byte (try fixing encoding issues, possibly saving file in a different format, and/or changing file encoding)
• An issue with the data type in the yop column: First error. Error reading column 'yop': Unrecognized integer format.

Title price file uploads:

• Missing required columns: Required: ['issn', 'price'], Found: ['1052-5629', 'USD', '1', '972']

PTA file uploads:

• Date in incorrect format: Error reading column 'start_date': Date must contain a 4-digit year

unsub v3.0

• 2022/08/19 Added support for all publishers! We've dropped support for specific publishers. Unsub packages are now essentially publisher agnostic. You can make Unsub packages with titles from 1 to any number of publishers. This change includes the ability to use Unsub for modeling aggregator packages as you may have through EBSCO or ProQuest.
• 2022/08/19 APC report moved from the package level to institutional level. The report includes an estimate of your APC spend for only the five publishers Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, and SAGE.
• 2022/08/19 Packages now have descriptions. In addition, package and description editing are available in the list of packages under an institution and in the single package view under the Edit Details tab.
• 2022/08/19 Packages have a new optional filter step. A spreadsheet of ISSNs or a KBART file can be uploaded to filter the titles that appear in all scenario views within a package.

unsub v2.2

• 2022/08/04 Added support for bulk subscribe/unsubscribe to journals in Unsub scenrio dashboards. The upper right hand area of the dashboard has many changes to support this functionality: the search/select box is now always shown to make it more obvious that it's a feature users can take advantage of, the styling has changed, there are now two additional icons (shopping carts) to subscribe or unsubscribe to all selected journals.

Check out the docs at https://docs.unsub.org/how-to-guides/bulk-subscribe-unsubscribe

unsub v2.1

• 2022/08/02 Fixed the pagination at the bottom of the table view in the Unsub scenario dashboard. The numbers shown before were not accurate; they are now!

unsub v2.0

• 2022/07/25 Fixes for PTA: 1) in the journal zoom Timeline tab, the correct years were not shown; now they are shown and right now show 2022 though 2026. 2) we were not including very recent PTA (e.g., end date Dec 2021); that is now fixed.
• 2022/07/25 Additional parts of the Unsub backend data are now from OpenAlex: number of articles, citations, authorships. Previously this data was from Microsoft Academic Graph. These changes lead to changes in all Unsub forecasts/dashboards, mostly for the better (higher fuflfillment at lower cost).

unsub v1.9

• 2022/06/17 Fix for demo accounts where dashboards weren't displaying correctly
• 2022/06/17 Unsub dashboard improvement: The encircled question mark that previously linked to our documentation at help.unsub.org, now is a dropdown with links to documentation, webinars and a link to send us feedback at [email protected] - See example below:

unsub backend v1.8

• 2022/06/14 Copying a scenario within a consortial package was broken due to a bug in our code. It is now fixed! Reach out if you're still having any problems with copying a scenario in a consortial package.

unsub backend v1.7

• 2022/06/02 Integrate OpenAlex (https://docs.openalex.org/) metadata into the Unsub backend. For now this includes journal metadata (e.g., ISSN, title, publisher, etc.) as well as journal concepts/subjects (e.g., Medicine, Ecology). Later we'll integrate additional OpenAlex data. To be clear, subjects throughout Unsub (in the user interface and in data exports) are now from OpenAlex. This change of journal metadata does affect what titles are included in your Unsub dashboards. We analyzed 212 scenarios before OpenAlex and after integrating OpenAlex, and there are only tiny differences: on average number of titles included in scenario are 0.62% different, forecasted costs are 0.18% different and forecasted access (fullfimment) is 0.05% different.
• 2022/06/02 Scenario exports used to have two subject fields (subject, era_subjects), but now have three subject fields: subject, subject_top_three, and subjects_all. See the docs (https://docs.unsub.org/reference/data-export) for further details.

unsub backend v1.6

2022/05/10 Fix for file uploads: Spreadsheets with formulas now generate an error, and we ask the user to fix and re-upload.

See also the Unsub announcements mailing list post https://groups.google.com/g/unsub-announce/c/xwExGdsgLAM