The below communication from the support team.... I think if we justify the need and importance of the features, they may consider to activate it. (when I wrote to support team they replied -- its pasted below )
Dear Srinivasan,
Thanks for getting in touch. The Export CV feature is no longer available as part of changes to your Experience tab. Unfortunately, this means that there is currently no way to export your experience from your ResearchGate profile.
We are always interested in constructive feedback as we try to improve the platform. If you would like to reply to this message with some more details regarding why you believe the Export CV feature is a valuable feature for researchers like yourself, we'll happily pass this onto the team responsible.
The export CV feature was one of the most useful parts of RG. It was the only way to get a publication list in a format useful for CVs, references cited portions of new publications, reports to sponsors and job evaluation reports. Please restore it.
I note that several changes have occurred in RG over the last several months. Most of the time the changes just appear with out any warning. Do you have a user advisory body, or are the computer geeks taking over site design and doing what they think we want to see?
Here is the reply when I worte to support team about the restore the feature. I got this reply. So if you all write to support team 'not here', we may get back.
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" Thanks for getting in touch. The Export CV feature is no longer available as part of changes to your Experience tab. Unfortunately, this means that there is currently no way to export your experience from your ResearchGate profile.
We are always interested in constructive feedback as we try to improve the platform. If you would like to reply to this message with some more details regarding why you believe the Export CV feature is a valuable feature for researchers like yourself, we'll happily pass this onto the team responsible.
The Export CV feature makes it easy for ResearchGate users to create a summary of their experiences which comes in very handy for job applications, a promotion at work or application for a grant, and other avenues that require submitting one's research summary.
It is true that there other ways to create these experience summary, however, the format created by ResearchGate is unique and concise that makes it the favourite for a lot RG users and it is not easy to recreate manually.
There is an ongoing thread on the platform calling for the return of the feature. Please here is the link to the thread. I am writing this on behalf of the thousands of RG users that want the feature back.
Thanks for your reply. We do genuinely appreciate you getting in touch with this type of feedback, and will pass it onto the team responsible for developing profile pages. Thanks again for taking the time to get in touch with such constructive and well-detailed feedback.
When I sent a complaint email to the support team, I received this response.
"Dear Christopher,
Thanks for your reply. We do genuinely appreciate you getting in touch with this type of feedback, and will pass it onto the team responsible for developing profile pages. Thanks again for taking the time to get in touch with such constructive and well-detailed feedback.
This was I sent to the support team representative...
"Dear Karl,
Thank you for your prompt response.
The Export CV feature makes it easy for ResearchGate users to create a summary of their experiences which comes in very handy for job applications, a promotion at work or application for a grant, and other avenues that require submitting one's research summary.
It is true that there other ways to create these experience summary, however, the format created by ResearchGate is unique and concise which makes it the favorite for a lot of RG users and it is not easy to recreate manually.
There is an ongoing thread on the platform calling for the return of the feature. Please here is the link to the thread. I am writing this on behalf of the thousands of RG users that want the feature back."
If we all sent this to them via email, they could respond faster and restore the feature instead of just writing here!
Christopher Tobechukwu Okolo: How do the other scholars understand that the question "Abcd efghi klmno pqrs tuvw xyz?" means "exporting CV"? Is there anything beyond my knowledge?