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Relevancy rankings
Change relevancy rankings to push articles above books and e-books (or at least not favor books). Most Summon users want articles more than books.
1 voteWe have made adjustments to the boosts for articles vs books and e-books. If this is still an issue, if you could provide some examples, that would help.
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Improve handling of duplicates with common titles
Currently, Summon prevents certain common titles from participating in the match & merge process if they are on the "Bad titles" list or the reach a certain count in the "Overmatch" algorithm. This process should be improved so that "real" titles are allowed to merge.
1 voteWe revised the match and merge rules around Overmatch as part of the upgrade to CDI. Hopefully this cleared up some of these issues. Please enter a new idea if there are specifics you’d still like to see included.
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Usability of Advanced Search
Certain elements of the advanced search screen are very difficult to use on mobile devices, particularly the 'Content type' and 'Discipline' multiple check-box options, where scrolling through a long list is problematic.
Is there a way to improve this, perhaps by using a larger pop-out box that can be scanned at a glance?1 voteCompleted as part of the November 2022 release.
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Merge Reference & Newsletter Types
Often we will see duplicate records because one is labeled Reference and the other is labeled e-book, or one is labeled an Article and the other is labeled a Newsletter. Allow multiple categories on a record and merge them.
1 voteWe now include Newsletters as part of the match and merge process; if enough of the records match, they should now merge.
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Top menu bar - Feedback, Help, Language
Some suggestions for the top menu bar.
- Allow enable/ disable for Feedback & Help in top menu. Currently, feedback and help are able to pointing to specific links. But not able to disable/ enable the links.
- Move the language dropdown to the top menu, instead of under the manual button then click and select from the dropdown. It's not easy for patron to find out this option and change the language.1 voteThe language dropdown was moved out with the recent User Interface changes
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Add ability to apply your EZproxy to the DOI field links in Summon search results
Currently in Summon search results, the DOI field provides a link that does not include EZproxy. So users might get to the item via this DOI link but since they have not arrived there through EZproxy, they might not be properly authenticated for access. Please give the option to prepend your EZproxy URL to the DOI links.
1 voteIncluded as part of the May 2021 release
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Make View Changes in Client Center Exportable
We'd really appreciate if the View Changes in Client Center had an exportable format, such as Excel.
1 voteThis has been completed as part of the Summon 2021 Roadmap.
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Add style guide for ACS (American Chemical Society)
Now that we've added IEEE, could we add ACS style format for citation style options? Thanks!
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/book/10.1021/acsguide1 voteCompleted as part of the 2022 Summon Roadmap.
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Creating reliable linking to open access content, depending on authentication
We have run into issues with open access materials leading to a paywalled (authentication required) link, within Summon. From a patron's perspective, when they click the "Open Access" facet, all results should be open access content, but this is not always the case, based on the Match & Merge process. To fix this, and allow patrons interested in OA content to reliably link to OA content, could we order the links in records based on whether or not a patron has already logged in and authenticated in our Summon instance? If they have not authenticated and choose open access, the…
1 voteCompleted as part of the 2022 Summon Roadmap.
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EJP: Limit autocomplete suggestions to subscribed resources
In the eJournal Portal you can activate autocomplete to get suggestions for journal titles based on what the end-user begins to type in the search-box.
We find this useful. However, as it is ALL Knowledgebase titles can display via the Autocomplete feature. Both title we subscribe to and titles that are not tracked. This means that the end-user will often get suggestions that gives 0 results. We would therefore like to be able to select that the autocomplete feature only suggests journals that we subscribe to.
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Refine search sort order
We would find it useful to be able to re-order the facets listed in Refine Your Search section of the Summon results display, so that facets used most are placed towards the top.
1 voteCompleted as part of the 2022 Summon Roadmap.
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