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ABC-CLIO Daily Life Through History
Please add ABC-CLIO Daily Life Through History to Primo client resources index so it can be activated for discovery.
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ORCID to be searchable in Primo VE
I'd like to add ORCID to our catalog records, at least for our ETDs (thesis authors and their advisors), and to have the IDs being searchable in Primo VE.
22 votes -
Please add a parameter for IED on Primo Analytics
Please add a parameter for IED on Primo Analytics. We want to check the number of action usages for a specific records, but there is no such parameter.
22 votes -
Add “Request another item”, “Check current requests” and “Close” options to “Request placed” page
See the current Request placed page display attached. Add “Request another item”, “Check current requests” and “Close” options to the “Request placed” page that displays after a Primo Resource Sharing request has been placed. Also, add the ability to customise the link text, add explanatory text and generally customise the page. Our clients sometimes need to create several requests at the same time. Currently the required navigation back to the request form is not obvious. The end user must know to close the current browser tab or select the original Primo tab to the left and then re-select the Interlibrary…
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Poder configurar la ordenación de los items/holdings en Primo VE
Primo no permite configurar la ordenación de los holdings o de los items asociados a un holding en la Vista completa del registro (sección Get It).
En nuestro caso, tenemos holdings diferentes asociados a una misma ubicación y biblioteca. Primo VE no permite ordenar estos holdings por signatura (ver en la imagen adjunta el ejemplo número 1).
Por otra parte, hay casos en los que muchos items dependen de un mismo holding. En este caso nos gustaría que se pudieran ordenar por disponibilidad, es decir, que se mostraran en primer lugar los items disponibles. En el ejemplo 2 del documento…22 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.
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Add a prm-alma-mashup-after angular directive
It's hard to work with the alma-mashup without the prm-alma-mashup-after directive and the lack of the directive is inconsistent with the rest of the markup in Primo.
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Campus Activated Subscriber Access for better off-campus and mobile access to full text
Google Scholar is rolling out a programme with publishers for easier access to full-text subscription content. They call this Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA). The description from the latest press release says "CASA makes note of a user’s institutional affiliation when they access content from an authorized on-campus location, and then enables continued access to their library’s journal and book holdings from home or when using a device not connected to the institution’s network".
The way this could work with Primo is by setting a cookie on the user's device when they are on campus and access Primo. If their…
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Adoption of W3C Accessibility Guidelines
The WCAG 2.0 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines should be adopted in research and discoverability systems to allow to people with disability have autonomy and full access to available research possibilities.
21 votes -
Keep chosen UI language after login
At the moment, following login, the Primo UI changes to either
a) preferred UI user language as indicated in the user preferences, or
b) default language
This leads to odd situations, for example,
User changes UI (from German) to English -> everything is now in English
Does a search etc etc -> still in English
Logs in - Login etc window in English
After successful login, the user is returned to Primo... but in German!
This is inexplicable for the user, and unless they know about preferences, and where to set them, it happens every time.
Note to change preferences…
21 votes -
Make citation trail available in the pinned/saved records list and in full records accessed from the saved records list.
Currently when a user pins or saves an article that has a citation trail, the citation trail does not display in the saved/pinned titles list. When the user accesses the full record from their saved records list the citations trail does not display in the full record either. This is problematic for researchers etc. who may save a number of records without realizing they will lose access to the citation trail. Please make the citations trail available in the saved records list and in full records accessed from the saved records list.
21 votes -
Let patrons collapse elements of the full title display
Hi
There should be a setting in the patron account where they can decide which elements of the full display of a title are collapsed and which are open.
The patrons are confronted with a lot of information of which only a small part is relevant to them – but which part they consider relevant can be different.
You can collapse 'Get it from other institutions' (https://www.carli.illinois.edu/products-services/i-share/discovery-interface/custom_package_collapsegetitother) – in the same way it's probably possible to collapse the other elements, too.
21 votes -
General Electronic Service - Additional Display location
In Primo VE you can set up a General Electronic Service (GES) to display in Primo VE under
Getit & How to Getit
Viewit and How to Getit
Getit, Viewit & How to Getit
How to Getit only
NoneFor when you only want a GES to display on an ebook or electronic resource, the display option doesn't give this option, but you can for physical items.
Idea is for there to be more options under display locations to make a far easier and straightwards option to select specific displays, specifically Viewit ONLY
21 votes -
Field for MeSH-terms in CDI bib records to make it possible to search in advanced search
MeSH-terms, primarily from PubMed, in CDI bib records are mixed with other subjects. Create a subject field for MeSH-terms and make them posisble to search via advanced search.
21 votes -
Generic Field in Resource Sharing Request Form
We use the ILL request form in Primo VE and use the Generic Field to get users to confirm they've checked whether the resource is in stock. This is working well but now for every request it includes the text from the field "Please tick to confirm you have checked Library Search - we will not buy items that are already available.:true" in the note and request note field on the borrowing request. This makes it hard to see specific notes.
We'd like to have the option to stop the generic field text being copied to the fields.
21 votes -
Displaying author field in collections in Primo
We have a collection in Primo showcasing publications from our researchers and so we would like to be able to display the author's name to promote the book. See screenshot for what currently displays (title and book cover).
21 votes -
Pipe setting improvement: allow to exclude specific OAI sets from a pipe
We would like to have the possibility to exclude one or more specific sets when we harvest the data with OAI-PMH protocol in Primo.
This option would have 2 results:
- to reduce the number of imported records
- we wouldn't have to set specific normalization rules in order to exclude the records we don't want to show in Primo21 votes -
Enable Full Text Searching
Enable full text searching for all searches as opposed to only as an enhanced search when results are low. This is especially confusing for when the same search can return less results after a user logs in.
20 votes -
Sliding publication date range bar option
At the moment in Primo the publication date filter gives you only the option to retype the year or to use the up and down arrows. We would like to see something similar to the option in Summon where you have a slider bar which you can drag across to reduce the date range ie: 2006-2017
20 votes -
Display times in Back Office according to local timezone
Currently Primo Back Office displays all times according to the server timezone. This is particularly relevant to scheduled pipes. For smoothest operation these need to be coordinated with Alma jobs, which are scheduled against local timezones. Differences in daylight savings times mean we have to update our conversions between the two timezones at least twice a year.
Being a multi-tenanted environment, the underlying server timezone can't easily be changed. But my suggestion is to make the display of any times in Back Office depend on a configurable timezone. ie
1) Allow institutions to configure a timezone
2) Where times and…
20 votes
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