In this release, we’ve made a number of improvements including a brand new global navigation. Here’s a summary of what’s changed:
Global navigation sidebar
We moved the global navigation menu in Discovery from a top bar to a sidebar. This change should make it easier to know where you are while providing you quick access to your home feed, Pinboards, and Topics.
Search results page UI
To keep Discovery easy to use, we've made some layout and user interface (UI) changes to the search results overview page:
- Layout change: We've improved the layout of the page to make it simpler and faster to scan results.
- Switch to other sections: We've also added a top dropdown that allows you to switch to other sections of the platform and access different data views.
Enriched expert profile
We’ve redesigned expert profiles, so you can see even more information at a glance—including affiliated institutions, research fields, conference data, top publications and citations among publications. You can also add expert profiles to your Pinboards. This allows you to save any person, company or content of interest in a single place.
Export functionality
It's now easy to export patent and news data from Discovery to Excel. This export functionality will soon be available for additional data types so stay tuned!
New data sources
We’re continuously expanding our data coverage across sectors and regions. In this release, we’ve incorporated new data sources covering the following fields: Food & Beverages, Electronics, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Telecommunications. To find out more, see Discovery data coverage.
We hope that these new updates help you do even more with Discovery. These features were built based on feedback from our users so if you have any ideas, suggestions for data sources or use cases you’d like us to improve, please let us know!
