Product Updates, February 2025

Summary

In February 2025, Scholarly Software introduced significant enhancements to its platform, focusing on user-requested features and improved usability. Notably, two new AI agents—Promotions and Faculty Facts—were launched, enabling institutions to analyze promotion data and compare faculty achievements with ease. Administrators now have self-service capabilities to add configurable extra fields for faculty records, streamlining the management of institution-specific information. Additional updates include a more intuitive user-switching experience, design improvements for AI Paste, and bug fixes that enhance workflow reliability. Scholarly continues to prioritize empowering academic institutions with secure, innovative tools that automate workflows and unlock the full potential of faculty data.

What new AI features were added in February 2025? * Scholarly introduced two new AI agents: Promotions (for analyzing promotion data) and Faculty Facts (for comparing faculty metrics such as publications and h-index).
How can administrators manage custom faculty data fields? * Institution admins can now add and configure extra fields for faculty members directly, without needing to contact Scholarly support.
What user experience improvements were made? * Enhancements include more intuitive user-switching, a redesigned AI Paste for better information density, and a refreshed faculty admin profile timeline.
How does Scholarly help communicate key data to faculty? * Configurable extra fields can be surfaced on faculty dashboards, making important information like sabbatical eligibility easily accessible.
Where can I learn more or request a demo? * Visit scholarlysoftware.com or book a demo to explore features and see Scholarly in action.

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Feb 28, 2025

February might be the shortest month, but that doesn't slow down the Scholarly team.

Much of our efforts in February were focused around adding polish to the product, while continuing to add new functionality requested by customers. Here are a few things customers saw come to life in their Scholarly accounts this month.

New AI Agents

AI Assistant gained 2 new agents: Promotions and Faculty Facts.
- Promotions is an agent that can answer questions about promotion data within your institution.
  - Example: "What's the average time in rank for someone being promoted from an associate to a full professor?"
- Faculty Facts is an agent used to compare facts among faculty members. Example queries include:
  - "Who is the person in my department with the most publications in 2023?"
  - "Please generate a list of professors in my department, ranked by h-index."

Configurable Extra Fields on Faculty Members

Previously, adding extra fields required contacting your account manager on the Scholarly side to get them added. This is now self-service for institution admins.
These extra fields are great for storing institution-specific information about faculty members or for common dates.
These fields will automatically show up on the faculty roster grid view.
Optionally, these fields and their values can be surfaced to faculty members on their Scholarly dashboard.
- This is a great way to communicate commonly-asked-about datapoints from faculty member. Ones we see often with customers if "When am I next eligible for a sabbatical?".
- See the screenshot below for an example.

Improved Experience

We made user-switching a bit more intuitive and remember recently-switched-to users.
Improved AI Paste design, which allows for better information density.
We fixed some bugs relating to dropdown menus within the application.
We fixed a bug with the grid question type within workflows.
Within the faculty admin profile, the timeline received a new design that better highlights the important information.

Thanks and until next time!