Hello and welcome to Platform Updates from research-mesh. Today is Monday, September 15th, 2025. This week, we have four updates for you from the platform. Let's get to the first one.

First up is what the team is calling 'A New Feature Bonanza'. A number of new capabilities are coming to the research-mesh platform. Users of the beta newsletters will see these roll out over the coming weeks, and the developers are asking for feedback from those testers.

The first of these new features is the Publication Index. This is an archive of all article citations from your research unit, organizing publications by the month and year they came out. The intent is to automate the task of cataloguing publications for administrative purposes, like reports. The index updates whenever a newsletter is sent. It also includes links for each citation, connecting to the newsletter issue featuring the article, a full summary page, and the article’s DOI.

The next feature is the addition of RSS Feeds for all newsletters. This update creates four different types of feeds. One is for article summaries, another is for citations with links to the DOIs, a third is for full newsletter issues, and a fourth is for the podcast audio. These feeds only update when a full issue is sent, giving admins final review. This system allows you to use automation tools to connect your newsletter content elsewhere. For example, you could automatically post new publications to a social media account or display an updated list of articles on your lab's website.

And to centralize some of these options, there will also be a new Newsletter “Home Index”. This acts as a lightweight home page for your newsletter. From this page, readers can browse past issues, access the publication index, and subscribe to the different RSS feeds. The design keeps individual newsletters from getting too crowded with links, giving readers a single place to find these other ways to connect with your updates.

And that covers the ‘New Feature Bonanza’. With the Publication Index automating your archives, and the new RSS feeds and Home Index pages offering more ways for people to connect with your work, these updates provide more options for managing and sharing your unit's research.

Thank you for listening to Platform Updates.