News

2026-04-21

✨ New Publications

  • Data management in literature reviews: The C5-DM Framework (2026), Research Synthesis Methods — Wagner, Gerit and Prester, Julian and Lukyanenko, Roman and Paré, Guy

2026-04-04

✨ New Publications

  • Teaching Python package development: A structured course with learning resources and an instructor’s guide (2026), Journal of Open Source Education — Wagner, Gerit and Thurner, Laureen and Tang, Carlo and Ott, Stella [https://jose.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/jose.00292]

2026-02-25

🔄 Software Updates

  • colrev → v0.16.2 (https://pypi.org/project/colrev/)

    Release notes:

    • Activate search-query validation for pubmed
    • Add support for Python 3.13
    • Simplify setup (activate crossref per default, dblp, pubmed are optional)

2026-02-23

✨ New Publications

  • search-query: An open source Python library for academic search queries (2026), Journal of Open Source Software — Eckhardt, Peter and Ernst, Katharina Maria and Fleischmann, Thomas and Geßler, Anna and Schnickmann, Karl and Thurner, Laureen and Wagner, Gerit [https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.08775#]

2026-02-06

New releases: - search-query v0.15.0 (https://pypi.org/project/search-query/)

Release notes:

  • Polish docs (automate page, with pinned colrev version; functional overview)
  • Extend tests (covering code in the paper; dist smoke test)
  • JSON: make SearchQuery(query=...) the (safer) default

2026-01-29

New releases:

  • colrev v0.16.1 (https://pypi.org/project/colrev/)
  • search-query v0.14.1 (https://pypi.org/project/search-query/)

2026-01-28

New releases:

  • search-query v0.14.0 (https://pypi.org/project/search-query/)

    Release notes:

    • Documentation and demo notebook: Revised the documentation and extended the demo notebook.
    • Generic query syntax: Make fields case insensitive.
    • Linter message refinement: Formatting (cli) and internal handling revised. WOS_0005deprecated.
    • Extend QueryErrorCode.JOURNAL_FILTER_IN_SUBQUERY: Added ISSN and ISBN fields.
    • Dependency: Removed packaging dependency.