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Apply Open Access Indicator only when link in search result is open access
Because article-level linking is not yet available for some open access databases, Summon is providing links in to non-open access sources while displaying the Open Access Indicator which is confusing for those searching Summon without the credentials for accessing licensed resources. Example: http://tinyurl.com/yd6qc22w Levasseur, T. J. (2012). THE ENVIRONMENT CONTAINS NO "RIGHT" AND "LEFT": NAVIGATING IDEOLOGY, RELIGION, AND VIEWS OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SOCIETY. Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 11(33), 62-88.
Either include in the Summon result a link to the open access database where a publication is available open access, or remove the Open…
7 votesCompleted as part of the 2022 Summon Roadmap.
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Ability to customize color of preview and facet panes, topic pane and right-hand menu
The ability to specify a background color, font, and font color for the preview, facet and topic panes.
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Create a method for searching an exact word which does not apply corrected spelling
Create a method for searching an exact word which does not apply corrected spelling. Sometimes there are specific words that are not "normal" spelling which get change to variants and the term you are looking for disappears within a sea of results.
e.g. frocta - a latin word gets changed to frota
and you get 18,000 results - none of them the word we searched upon.
6 votesThis is a bug; the feature should search on the word as you type it and provide a link to search results with the suggested corrected spelling. Are there other examples where this is occurring?
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Mandatory sender e-mail field in Summon
In summon you can email records / titles, from your search results to others via the small feature in the top right corner. Unfortunately, it is not a requirement that the sender of the email is obligatory to fill in a sender field (There is no sender field at all.)
In principle, you can email posts / titles with associated messages in the note field anonymously!It also means that when we at the library receive such an e-mail, we only know who sent it if the patron added a text that helps us identify him/her.
We therefore suggest that…
6 votesCompleted as part of the 2023 roadmap, courtesy of IGeLU and ELUNA NERS.
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Name and e-mail should be mandatory on the Interlibrary Loan Request form
It's possible to make an Interlibrary Loan Request on No Result Page without filling in the fields Name and E-mail in the form. This means that some request are anonymous which is of course not desirable.
6 votesA properly formatted email address is required for the ILL form as of the August 2021 release.
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"Quick Look" - Improve the quick look to be more flexible, including delivering with the four major elements in a "closed" position
Quick Look - improve the quick-look to be more flexible, including delivering the key elements (subjects, table of contents, abstract, etc.) in a "closed" position, linearly in one column, allowing the user to choose which one to see on demand. The fixed display (headed by the 1-25) does not move or actually center on screen (laptops), making the right column data extremely hard to see at the bottom right of the screen. Make the elements "on demand" with clear "back" buttons to return to the quick look landing page. Also the page is not pdf or print friendly, and since…
6 votesCompleted as part of the 2023 roadmap.
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Add Chicago Notes-Bibliography Style as an option for the citation generator.
Chicago Notes-Bibliography (NB) style is the preferred citation style for historians, but Chicago Author-Date is the only option available in the automatic citation generator in Summon. As the formats are noticeably different, it would be useful to have both options available for users to choose from.
5 votesCustom citations are now available in Summon as part of the August 2022 release. This citation style should be available. If it is not, or if any citation style does not meet your criteria, you can create your own.
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Include Oxford Reference content in the Topic Explorer
Oxford is an important reference source that would add scope and value to the topic explorer.
5 votesThis is live as of March 6, 2019. To select this as a source for Topic Explorer, if you are a subscriber, simply go to the Topics section of the main Settings page in the Summon Admin Console, and drag and drop Oxford University Press from the Disabled column to the Enabled column.
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Add Section number to Course ID in Course Reserves page
The Course Reserves page in Summon is a nice improvement for Summon Over Alma customers. In Summon, only the Alma course code is displaying as the Course Number. In the attached example, you can see that Bio 220 has 3 sections. It is not clear in Summon which section number corresponds to which course number. Please add the section number to course number in Summon.
5 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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4 votes
Custom citations are now available in Summon as part of the August 2022 release. This citation style should be available. If it is not, or if any citation style does not meet your criteria, you can create your own.
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Results Beyond Your Library's Collection
Add "Results Beyond Your Library's Collection" as a filter to the "Refine Your Search" Area.
4 votesCompleted as part of the facet improvements in December 2021.
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Intota Consortium Sharing: “Terms of use” should be shown in EJP on “From Consortium titles”
When you share a database and a license belonging to the database with a “child instance” then “Terms of use” are only shown in the eJournal Potal belong to the “parent instance”. As terms of use is as relevant to the users at the “child institution” as to the users at the “parent institution” this information should be inherited.
4 votesThe problem has been solved with the Q1 2022 update.
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Make Ulrich smarter in 360 EJP
When a user selects the arrow to see "Journal Details" information from Ulrichs is presented, along with an option to see "More from Ulrichsweb.com." When the link is selected, however, it opens Ulrich and you have to re-enter the title. The suggestion is the title should be retained.
3 votesResolved in the Q2 2019 release
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Keep search refinements when moving to Advanced search
Reported by our Business librarians ...
I lose my search refinements if I jump from search results into advanced. For example, run a default search for something like, apple company profile, then refine it to reports. Click the link to advanced search, change the drop down to Title and press search. The report refinement is gone and has to be selected again.
If there is a way to keep your existing refinements, I would like that.
3 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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Consistent link back to search results
The user leaves the search result and goes to detail page, advanced search or saved items. Then when the user wants to return to search results this is done in three different ways. We would like the link back to search results look the same in all three situations. The one we prefer is the one in the detail page.
2 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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Add "Council of Science Editors" (CSE) to Cite this Item options
Faculty has requested that Council of Science Editors (CSE) formatting style be added as an option in Summon's "Cite this Item" drop-down menu.
2 votesCompleted as part of the 2022 Summon Roadmap.
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Ability to exclude a facet value on the results page
At present you can only exclude a facet value by going into the "More" option. For example the Book Review content type is probably not that useful. So it would be ideal if the was a way to exclude them when the results are displayed. The default action when clicking on the Book Review content type would be to just include this type.
This is something available in Primo and would be a great addition to Summon.2 votesThis was included as part of the facet improvements for the User Interface in the December 2021 Summon Quarterly Release.
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Allow for the ordering of EJP results
We'd like to be able to decide how results should show up in the Journals search: a specific example (see attached image) would be if you are searching on "nature", then the journals with "nature" in the real title (as opposed to the Alternate Title) would rise to the top. Right now they come back in alphabetical order and we feel this is counterintuitive - more helpful would be how results in most other places come back, with relevancy rankings incorporated.
Please note: We know that you can remove alternate titles in the search results, but we'd like to retain…
2 votesReleased in June 2022.
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Make custom panels visible for mobile phone users
There appears to be no way for custom panels to display on mobile phones, which forces us to provide alternative instructions for doing certain things in Summon for people using phones. There should be a way for these panels to display.
2 votesThis was added as part of the user interface improvements in the August 2022 release.
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1 vote
Completed as part of the May 2017 release.
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