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Allow patrons to order a specific item in a fulfillment network
Hi
We are in a consortium with a fulfillment network.
Which in many cases means that the patrons can not pick which copy of a book they want to order.
While this may make sense as the default (1), it is frustrating for many patrons, myself included.
- When more than one copy is available, I want to be able to decide which one to get
- When a book is on loan I may prefer to wait for the copy of my favorite library to come back instead of getting the book from somewhere else
This is especially relevant when I'm…
155 votes - When more than one copy is available, I want to be able to decide which one to get
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Filter collections (in Primo) to show 'online' or 'physical' items
Currently, when you click into a collection on Primo, there are a few sorting options (relevance, date, title, author), but it would be useful to let users see only 'online' items or only 'physical' items (libraries with more than one site may want to let users see physical items at particular sites).
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TOU should be hidden when users Not logged in.
In Primo VE, when a user is logged in, the TOU according to the user's category is displayed. However, when the user is not logged in, the TOU could be displayed as "Loanable" even if the book is loanable only to faculty members. When the user is not logged in, the TOU should be hidden.
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Ability to collapse elements in full title display per view and per search scope slot
Please add the ability to collapse elements in full title display
- per view
- per search scope slotWe are in a consortium, and some information in the full title display is confusing for our patrons and we have no way to hide it.
We would like a setting to collapse each element of the full title display separately. This setting needs to be configurable per view and within the view per search scope slot.
Example:
We have the search scope slots
- our IZ
- NZ & CDISection 'Other loan and request options' should be collapsed in…
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Add support for the following HTML tags : <ul>, <li>, <sub>, <sub>.
So that they can be embedded into records to improve the frontend display.
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blockchain
Please consider adding blockchain technology to Primo for tracking the provenance/use/download of research content.
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Allow the available figure for Physical items to be configured
The available figure in Primo for Physical items includes all items which are not on loan. We want to be able to exclude items with certain item policies or item locations from this figure.
These items will still be displayed within Primo but will not be included in the available count.3 votes -
Add target_url to DisplayCTO output
There is a feature in Primo VE to debug OpenURLs. You add to the OpenURL the parameter &displayCTO=true, e.g. https://uzb.swisscovery.slsp.ch/discovery/openurl?institution=41SLSP_UZB&vid=41SLSP_UZB:UZB&id=pmid:24881163&sid=Entrez:PubMed&displayCTO=true
Now you find between the metadata and the inventory a button "DISPLAY CTO". If you click there, you get an XML file with the metadata details that are available to Primo VE at the moment as well as data for the online services Primo VE will offer the user. However, one important information is missing: The target URL the service will link to is not displayed.
If you, however, use the debug URL of the Alma Link Resolver: https://slsp-uzb.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/uresolver/41SLSP_UZB/openurl?svc_dat=CTO&debug=true&debug=true&id=pmid:24881163&sid=Entrez:PubMed
You…
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Publish synonym list for hosted non-VE customers in Primo documentation
It was announced in the Primo mailing lists during August 2021 that the list of synonyms for Primo VE had now been added to the documentation page.
The equivalent documentation for non-VE Primo customers such as us is at:
As hosted customers, however, we still can't see the contents of the synonym files as described, as we don't have that sort of server level access. Therefore we are unable to determine:
(i) whether the non-VE synonym list bears direct comparison to the VE list,
(ii) if it does not, where the differences lie.
Significant staff time is taken up…
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Change the normalization rules for local resource type book
Change the normalization rules for local resource type book and create a new publiction type called Monographic series. The OTB rule in Primo VE is (Leader(06-07) = ac or ad or am) OR (Leader(06-07) = ab|ai|as AND 008(21) = m): https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/Primo_VE_(English)/120Other_Configurations/Mapping_to_the_Display%2C_Facets%2C_and_Search_Sections_in_the_Primo_VE_Record
This rule should be created for Monographic Series:
(Leader(06-07) = as AND 008(21) = m)
We also think that ExL should reassess their rule and exclude this part: (Leader(06-07) = ab|ai|as AND 008(21) = m) and set up a new rule for monographic series (check:https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd008s.html). The codes for ‘ai’ and ‘ab’ are so rare we think they…31 votes -
Add scite.ai badges to Primo
Add scite.ai (https://scite.ai/badge) badges to publications surfaced on Primo to show how publications have been supported or disputed.
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Sorting of multiple copies according to item policy "available for loan"
Our library for medicine offers a large number of copies of some standard works. Some of them are not borrowable because they belong to the reference collection (item policy 63). Other copies have the item policy "available for loan, 1 day" (item policy 59) or "available for loan, 28 days" (item policy 01).
Example; https://slsp-network.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/41SLSP_UBE/hnud4r/alma99116892929105511In the details display (get it), the items that can be borrowed for 28 days are displayed last and are very difficult for users to find.
Ideally, the filter function should be adapted to contain the option "available for loan", so that patrons can choose…85 votes -
Show both in-text and reference citation formats for APA 7
With version 7 of the American Psychological Association (APA 7) citation format, there are two formats: one for in-text and one for reference citations.
The first (in-text) is to be used within the body of the text; the second (reference) is to be used in a bibliography.
There are differences between the two styles. For more information on the differences, please see https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations and https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references.
It looks like when Primo uses the Citation Style Language (CSL) Repository (https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles) to add styles, it only picks up the In-text format citation from the APA 7 definition on the CSL…
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Hide digitization button when items of a title are on loan / unavailable
We would like to suggest the option to hide the digitzation button when all items of a title are on loan / unavailable.
Currently, titles can be requested for digitization while all items corresponding to a title are on loan or unavailable, which can result in significant waiting periods between requesting a title for digitization and the fulfillment of said request.
Therefore, we propose that the digitization button only appears when an item is available for the title in question. This would benefit patrons, since they can assume that if a request can be made, it will be processed right…89 votes -
300a (total number of pages) should put in PNX for exporting RIS/Mendeley.
Currently, Primo VE does not export total number of pages of books, which is nessesary for some styles, to RIS and Mendeley. We opened a case and asked Support to fix this, and got the answer following.
”The Product Management team has discussed this further and consider this is an enhancement request. A possible solution is to set a new rule to take, for books only, the pages information from 300a and include it in the PNX addata/pages field."
We thought the total number of pages should be included in PNX. Please support this idea.
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Option to deactivate the Resource Sharing Request Service for records without physical item of electronic/digital services
Dear colleagues,
this idea is for adding the option to deactivate the Resource Sharing Request service in Primo VE for some groups of records without physical item of electronic/digital services, without having to deactivate the Resource Sharing Request rule in Discovery Interface Display Logic.This deactivation should be applicable only to local records (catalogued in Alma) and the single institutions should be able to decide if enable it or not.
We would like the same behavour that exists for Primo also for Primo VE (for example, indicating to Primo VE that when the availability is "no inventory" ILL must be…
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Able to filter search results in collections
Once doing search under collection (AlmaD), we need a filter option to filter search results.
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Field Pickup in Resource sharing form with default to leave blank
Now in the Pickup field, the first library in alphabetical order always appears by default. Many users click ENTER without having correctly filled in the Pickup field.
The best thing is that this field, even though it is mandatory, by default remains blank in opción, to force the user to choose.61 votes
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