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Automatic holdings update message
Change the link behind the 'New!xx/xx/2019' message that displays when Ebook Central Perpetual and DDA automatic holdings have been updated so that the link displays the updated titles themselves, not the summary screen of total titles held in the package.
It's not possible currently to easily identify which titles have been added on that date to match against Libcentral & ensure all the titles we have access to display in Summon
6 votes -
New LexisNexis / Nexis Uni linking solution
It feels like a very small minority of links to Nexis Uni content resolve successfully. I've opened a number of support tickets without much progress, only to be told that LexisNexis/Nexis Uni simply doesn't work well with the OpenURL resolver. I'd like more development work to go into this connection as it renders a large amount of content in a very popular database inaccessible.
44 votes -
Add ability to exclude specific citations from full text rights based on 'advance online' - epub ahead of print - status.
Add ability to exclude specific citations from full text rights based on 'advance online' - epub ahead of print -status.
2 votes -
Minimise requests by patrons for locally subscribed content by filtering via Summon Citation Linker
As a small team processing many document delivery requests, it would be good to minimize the number of requests for items already held in locally subscribed e-journals. Proposing that citation details entered via a local online form could be submitted to the Summon Citation Linker for checking and identification of subscribed content. If held, a return to the patron of a link to the full-text content would be provided. If item is not subscribed, form information is forwarded to library staff as usual. Would greatly benefit both the requester who can receive access to required content instantly and also library…
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Apply the same tag to multiple Best Bets
We enter our databases as Best Bets and add tags for their title and title variations. There are a few instances where we have multiple collections with similar title variations, such as Joanna Briggs Institute. It would be a great improvement if we could add the same tag to multiple Best Bets and have all of them display when that tag is searched; this would also be more consistent with how our database entries in our 'classic catalogue' can be searched.
15 votes -
OBI usage statistics : Access source IP address
We would like to get the usage records of IP address to access Summon.
Old Summon Usage system had provided it.8 votes -
I would like Summon to have the functionality to connect to Endnote via Z39.50 allowing users to search all our resources.
I would like Summon to have the functionality to connect to Endnote via Z39.50 allowing users to search all our resources. Currently, we can only set up a connection to our Voyager catalog in EndNote, and our Voyager catalog does not have records for all the journals and databases we subscribe to.
8 votes -
"Citation Online" + Open Access logo in Summon
In the Summon results page, the mention "Full Text Online" is replaced by "Citation Online" for results beyond library collection.
I suggest an exception where this mention "Full Text Online" is not replaced for results beyond library collection, when these results are Open Access and when the Open Access logo is displayed.
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2 votes
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Create widgets that include limits by publication
Currently you can create widgets with filters by discipline, content type, etc., but it would be very handy to create widgets that could search within a set of publications--for example, if you could add a query for a string of ISSNs and limit the search to certain highly specialized journals. This would be great for niche fields or some disciplines that are not represented in the list of disciplines (like rhetoric and composition).
6 votes -
Make it easier to add hyperlinks to custom panels
At present, URLs can only be added to custom panels with HTML. It would be good to have the option of using the rich text editor (or, failing that, adding a URL below the panel's main text, as is possible with Best Bets)
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OBI usage statistics : scheduling reports for email delivery
It should be great if we can schedule usage reports to be sent automatically to a special email address every mounth
7 votesMoving this back to no status and adding a note to clarify. For Summon over Alma customers, we can schedule delivery of reports via email. But currently OBI statistics from the Summon UI are not covered under these reports.
This idea covers reports and usage outside of Alma.
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Ability to add custom pre-set publication date to facets, e.g. "Ten years".
It is currently possible to use pre-set publication filters in the Publication Date facet, with "Last 12 months", "3 years" and "5 years" as options. However, it would be useful to toggle, i.e. both add and remove, pre-set publication filters for this facet in the Summon admin centre for Search Results and Advanced Search.
8 votes -
export search results
It would be helpful if users could export an entire set of search results without first having to send them to the folder one by one. If it's too complicated to engineer a way to "select all" with any quantity of results, perhaps just being able to "select and export all" when there are fewer than 100 results would be of some use.
136 votes -
Signature search
Our users search directly for the signature of a book. It would be a good supplement if this search option were supplemented.
4 votes -
Show the details of contract with publishers concerning search target
Contents which are searchable in Summon differ per publisher or database.
It will be helpful for librarian if they could confirm the details of contracts about search target or the breakdown of search target in ClientCenter.4 votes -
Topic explorer enable when advanced search.
Using advanced search, topic explorer is not displayed now.
I think it will be convinient if topic explorer is display when we using advanced search too.9 votes -
360 Link citations - add Harvard style
We would like to add the Harvard style as an option when exporting citations in 360 Link.
2 votes -
Ability to match language settings of Summon with those of linked contents
At present, the interface language of Summon and that of linked content has no connection at all.
So, sometimes abroad students have to change both language settings of Summon and those of contents.
It is troublesome and loses comfort in research.17 votes -
LC Call Number Browse Relevance Searching
When searching by LC call number in Summon, it matches to the Cutter number as well as to the LC call number. The default "relevance" ordering doesn't put the call numbers that begin with the LC call number at the top of the list. There isn't a choice to force that ordering. In Alma, it is possible to search by shelf list, so it shouldn't be that difficult to do the same on the public side of a shelf list.
2 votes
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