A major Reader polish release
This was one of the biggest Curvenote Reader polish windows of the cycle: a rebuilt landing page, clearer submission listings, faster cold loads, richer links, and a JATS release that makes papers render more faithfully end-to-end.
Curvenote SCMS¶
General platform improvements this week: a refreshed Submissions UI, faster works-listing search, quicker DOI resolution, a new content check on upload, and direct publishing from the ETL pipeline.
Curvenote Reader¶
Faster at scale. A new runtime cache sits in front of content lookups (with a tested memory fallback), so cold paths stay snappy even under heavy load.
Under the hood. Improved math rendering, a sharper image optimizer, more consistent analytics, and a Content Security Policy at the edge.
openRxiv Labs — Curvenote Reader¶
Many of this week’s Reader improvements are live at openRxiv Labs, which uses Curvenote Reader for all bioRxiv and medRxiv content.
A rebuilt landing page. A new front page and navigation with refreshed messaging and tuned layout widths, and an openRxiv Labs banner.
Clearer recent-submissions listings. Publication dates now use a calendar-day difference instead of a rolling 24-hour window, so “how recent” matches what readers expect. The ambiguous “Today” filter is gone, and “Published” is now labelled “Posted” to match preprint terminology.
Better manuscript reading. A friendly rate-limit page instead of a hard error; a clearer path for brand-new preprints that haven’t been processed yet; an article-version notice with link prefetch so moving between versions is instant; and a refreshed mobile article bar with more visible feedback links.
Figure 1:The refreshed Reader experience at openRxiv Labs — a rebuilt landing page, clearer recent-submission listings, and a smoother path through to preprints.
JATS processing. The pipeline that turns publisher XML improved:
Math renders for images as children.
Figure and table numbering is preserved from the source paper, so “Figure 3” stays “Figure 3”.
Bibliographies serialize cleanly — references that used to break a build now work.
Figure and table titles render as styled text rather than naked inlines.
Abbreviations expand cleanly, with no stray parentheses in the glossary.