This week, we are announcing a set of new features for the research※mesh platform that offer new ways to organize, access, and distribute your unit's research. In this issue, discover how to create a dynamically updated and explorable archive of all publications, use automated feeds to amplify new work across other channels, and offer your readers a central location for browsing past issues and other resources.

In this issue, we are excited to announce some major new features for the research※mesh platform.

The features below will roll out across all beta newsletters in the coming weeks and months.

As always, we are eager to hear your feedback. As beta testers, your input is critical! Email us at info@researchmesh.com to drop us a note.

The publication index is a browsable, dynamically updated archive of all article citations for articles from your research unit. This page organizes all new publications by the month and year of their publication, based on the best available article metadata when we first ingest the article.

The goal of this feature is to automate the task of cataloguing publications for reports or other administrative purposes.

The publication index uses the same citation format as the newsletter. If your newsletter uses an inclusion criteria, the index will only include relevant/matching publications.

The publication index is compiled whenever your newsletter is successfully sent. This means that if one of your researchers adds an article to their ORCID profile that they forgot about last month, it will still be added to the correct month of publication in the index.

Furthermore, the publication index cross-references the newsletter itself, giving you and your readers another way to browse the research. In the index, you will see subtle navigation iconography accompanying each citation:

⛾ links to the newsletter issue featuring the article
※ links to the full page summary of the article
→ links directly to the article’s DOI

These embedded links make the publication index explorable. The index is not only a structured list of citations, it is also a creative way to retroactively browse the research activity of your research unit.

We hope you find the publication index to be a valuable, time-saving feature, especially if your role involves publication reporting responsibilities.

All newsletters now power a suite of RSS feeds that can be used to monitor, automate, and amplify new research in a multitude of ways.

The summary RSS provides a feed of new article overview pages.

The citation RSS provides a feed of all new article references (in the citation format of the newsletter) linking directly to each article's DOI.

The issue RSS provides a feed for the permanent URLs for the full issues of the newsletter.

The podcast RSS makes the audio content directly subscribable for podcast apps and allows for resyndication to other podcast platforms.

All the feeds above update only when a new full issue is sent, so newsletter admins still have full “eyes on” new content before it is added.

With this update, research※mesh now provides one-of-a-kind "bridge infrastructure" that automatically converts activities from any specific collection of ORCID IDs into RSS feeds. This capability can be used to automate all kinds of information pipelines for enhancing knowledge mobilization, science communication, and research administration.

RSS is an open standard. Using these feeds, you can repurpose newsletter content in numerous ways using automation tools like Zapier, IFTTT, Make, Power Automate, etc. For example, it is now possible to automatically post new research articles or newsletter issues to your social media channels or embed an automatically updated list of recent publications on your lab’s website. The options are virtually limitless. Get creative!

Upcoming issues of the newsletter will provide readers with the option to navigate to a “home index” for the newsletter, which enables them to

• browse past newsletter issues
• browse the publication index
• subscribe to RSS feeds

The “home page” is a lightweight, minimalist interface, which helps reduce “option clutter” from individual issues of the newsletter, while still providing readers the opportunity to engage with your research updates in a variety of ways.