July 9, 2026
Submit a work directly from SCMS
Direct submit-to-site from the work-details page is the headline this week, alongside a new scheduled-jobs and cron admin for SCMS operators and a cleaner upload-and-extract flow for authors. On the reader side, openRxiv Labs picks up sharper citations, references, and abbreviations from a substantive JATS-processing upgrade, and preview pages across Curvenote Theme now render without the site top-nav so drafts look like the article they’ll become.
Curvenote SCMS¶
Submit a work to a site from work details. The work-details page now includes a version-aware submit control that sends the chosen work version to any eligible site in one step. Sites appear in the picker only when they have an open collection and matching submission kind — or when the work is already on them — so authors don’t see venues they can’t actually submit to. Draft versions stay hidden, and a version that’s already been sent to a site can’t be re-sent by accident.
The version-aware submit control on the work-details page sends a chosen work version to any eligible site in one step, offering only sites with an open collection and matching submission kind.
Cross-version check summaries in the submit bar. When choosing where to submit, the submit bar now shows the most recent run of each check across every non-draft version of the work — so “Not run” only appears when a check has genuinely never been run. When the latest run came from a different version than the one being submitted, a small v{n} badge makes it obvious.
Scheduled jobs. Administrators now get a real cron admin page in SCMS with a name-and-description form, validated HTTP verb and target, and a live schedule preview that shows the next fire time as you edit. Scheduled jobs promote themselves when they’re due, the background queue drain can be paused and resumed for maintenance, and failed check runs now carry retry state that the system can act on.
A cleaner upload metadata flow. Authors uploading works see a per-file document preview with capped scroll, tidy tab titles, and a dedicated state for each file. The authors and affiliations panel gets a simple/edit toggle so the common case reads as a summary and edits are one click away. Metadata auto-extract now only fires on a fresh upload with empty details — not every re-upload — and re-run and clear links are always in reach at both the top and the bottom of the form.
Only offer image checks when there are actually images. The checks form now knows whether an upload contains figures and only offers image-based checks when they apply.
Tighter access control on works. Checks dispatch is now a per-work role granted to owners and contributors instead of an app-wide scope — viewers get read access to check history without being able to run new checks. The whole checks UI is now gated behind a feature flag.
Curvenote Sites¶
Docs and glue for submit-to-site. The site-side of the new submit-to-site flow ships with an operator-facing walkthrough of how a work moves from SCMS into a site collection, and the site’s submissions loader is updated in step with the SCMS change above.
Curvenote Reader¶
A shared layout header for preview and article routes. The rendering core now carries an explicit layout-header slot in its layout components, so downstream apps can control the site header from the layout tree instead of re-implementing the same guards inside every header. That’s what makes the Curvenote Theme preview-page change below possible without every reader-family app repeating the work.
openRxiv Labs — Curvenote Reader¶
openRxiv Labs uses Curvenote Reader for all bioRxiv and medRxiv content — see openRxiv Labs.
Sharper citations, references, and abbreviations. Articles on the openRxiv Reader come through with materially cleaner citations, references, and abbreviations after a substantive upgrade to how JATS content is converted. Superscript citations followed by a separator now parse correctly. Identifiers are pulled out of unstructured citation text so a reference like “Smith 2020” links where it should. Definition lists can serve as abbreviation sources. A MathML bracket-rendering error is fixed and table cross-references (ref-type=tab) now resolve as tables.
Curvenote Theme¶
Preview pages render without the site top-nav. Preview routes in the standalone Curvenote Theme app no longer show the site top-nav — so authors and reviewers looking at an unpublished draft see the article the way it will read once published, without a global header that will be replaced at publish time.