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Provide Statistics about use of Primo Central Collections
It would be great if we can asses the usage of our licensed content via Primo. This will be valuable for our licensing decisions, as well it would be interesting for the hosts (Thomson Reuters, ProQuest...).
For instance, we like to know:
how often users view metadata (i.e. open details tab) of records from ProQuest's Collection for Dissertations & Theses
what is the ratio of view metadata to request fulltexts from the collection?
which providers (Thomson Reuters, ProQuest, ...) are used most (view + download), what are the top collections of each provider?
52 votes -
Add RIS export to AngularJS Primo UI
Reference management options in the new Primo UI seem limited to RefWorks, EndNote, and EasyBib. I'd like an "Export RIS" option to support users of Zotero and Mendeley.
7 votes -
Holdingsfile should take into account the holdings of physical items
In our Primo we have set up that only articles that you have access to is presented in the first result-list, but that you can remove this filter by checking the tick box on the left to include result that you do not have access to.
Currently only the holdingf for electronic journals are taken into account. If the library has only the physical journal the article will not be part of the first search result. It will look like the library does not have this article, when the truth is that the user could get it in print.
The…
40 votes -
Add functionality in relevancy ranking for Primo to adjust according to full text criteria
We would like to be able to adjust the relevancy ranking of the results page to display full-text versions above duplicate results that show no full text available.
Example:
This would be most helpful for sources coming from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT), where the PQDT result shows as full-text available but results from other PCI sources (ERIC, ProQuest, etc.), show the source as "no full text available."We think this would be helpful for other situations, too.
30 votes -
Display e-book-only call numbers
Please have Primo display call numbers for items that are only available in electronic format. For example, if we have an item only as an e-book, no call number displays and that also means that the Virtual Browse function doesn't work. Even though the call number for an e-book might seem irrelevant, it's actually very useful in determining the focus of a book (e.g., a book about politics with a BF call number tells us it's looking at the topic from a psychological perspective). Thanks for considering.
18 votes -
Add search options for atoz list
Primo provides only title search options for A to Z list. It would be useful to have more options such as ISSN, ISBN or publisher.
29 votes -
Don't filter out Primo Central records after clicking Library facets
On a blended scope, when you search in the scope and click a library facet, all the Primo Central records are filtered out because Primo Central records do not have facets:library values in PNX. For example,
(1) Go to our Primo:
http://kosmos.lib.keio.ac.jp/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=KEIO
(2) For your convenience, click "English" as UI language on the upper-right corner.
(3) On the "All materials" tab, search "cancer" (without quotes). The "All materials" scope is a blended scope that contains both local records and Primo Central records.
(4) On the Library facets, click any library.
Then all the Primo Central records are filtered out. But…
4 votes -
"XML View" in "Send to" section of record display
Librarians often need to look "under the hood" of what is being displayed in the OPAC. It would be great if "Send to" section of the record display included a link for displaying the PNX record.
4 votes -
They appear as "renewable" items that really aren't
In Primo, they appear as "renewable" copies really are not because they already have the maximum number of renovations. Why not say directly "not renewable"?
4 votes -
PCI to recognise the elements of a DOI to find the item
Errors in search results are likely to occur when users are searching for DOIs from citations. DOIs are often formatted differently in citations or online but the user will naturally just copy-paste the DOI as it appears. If the user searches for this 10.1016/j.acalib.2008.10.014 in Primo Central - you find the article. However if you search for http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2008.10.014 as it might be displayed in a citation, the article is not found. Anything preceding the DOI registry number (including doi:10.1016 for eg) will not result in a successful search.
78 votes -
Make integration with Alma more seamless in regard to the PCI and Link Resolver
When we activate our Link Resolver databases in Alma, we have to do it all over again in the Primo PCI. This is redundant effort. Yes, it is one time, but new libraries have enough else to do to configure the system and this seems like an unnecessary step.
6 votes -
Title search be split to differentiate between article title and publication title
Whilst doing a title search the results are often skewed by publication titles being included in the results lists.
12 votes -
Truncation within parenthesis
We would like Primo to work with searching with truncation even within parenthesis, like this:
"soccer injur*"
would return for example:
soccer injury
soccer injuries29 votes -
See Attachments from Alma in Primo
Users should be able to see, in a clear format, their attachments that are sent out in Alma. This would be helpful because we could attach policy specific things to their accounts and they'd have a record of what notices were sent out to them.
8 votes -
Make Relevancy Ranking values available
To assist with the fine-tuning of Field Boosting, provide a way of showing the values of the rankings of search results.
I.e. When a search is performed, for each hit make its total ranking value viewable either
- to users,
- in a comment in the page's source HTML, or
- by amending that items URL (similar to &showPnx=true).8 votes -
Adding 'Issue' as a new resource type in Primo Central
Resource types used in Primo Central are limited to 23 (book, article, journal, image...) [See pdf "Primo Central Index Resource Types" in the Documentation Center].
For digitized journal issues, the type in use is 'journal'. Archive collections like HathiTrust may contain tens of thousands of digitized journal issues; institutional repositories may also contain complete issues… This is finally confusing for end-users for who see issues labelled as journals and for whom filtering by resource type has become useless.
Adding a 24th type 'Issue' for this material would be welcome! ‘Journal’ would thus only remain for real journal records.
93 votes -
Primo: ability for Back Office users to mantain their own passwords (or integrate with SAML)
Increasingly I am opening up the Primo Back Office to staff outside Library Systems, for example for people to build reports or test FRBR and DEDUP.
It would be more secure if the Back Office users had the option to change their own password rather than for me to set it.
Even better would be integration with the institution's Single Sign On service (as Alma does).
Regards,
Ciaran
Ciaran Talbot l Library Systems Manager l Red 2.6 Main Library l The University of Manchester Library l The University of Manchester l Oxford Road l Manchester l M13 9PP
@ciaran_talbot11 votes -
Fix the RIS file export
Many Primo Alma customers have had to add additional display fields in Primo to enable correct export of Multiple authors and Publishers to a RIS file for Refworks or other Bibilographic tools.
Please can this be fixed for everyone? I am attaching our Refworks mapping file as an example.
14 votes -
cursor location after clearing search box
Choosing "new search" puts the cursor in the search box. But when I click on the small x to clear the search terms, I would like the cursor to return to the search box.
21 votes -
Combine permalinks with citations in Primo
In Primo, the ability to copy citations is very useful, as is the ability to copy permalinks for individual records. When helping a patron via virtual reference (chat or email), it is cumbersome to, first, open and copy the citation, and second, open copy the permalink. It would make more sense to either hyperlink the citation with a stable link, or include the permalink after the citation in the same window.
49 votes
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