Improve precision of locate process for digital resource sharing article requests
Currently, when identifiers are not included in a resource sharing request form, Alma uses a search mechanism based on keywords to guide the locate process. This results in many false positive matches. Additional locate by fields (title, author) selected in the partner’s locate profile and Resource Sharing Library lending setup are not considered in the process. Turning on the Locate only when all fields match setting does not improve the accuracy of the locate for article requests, as article author is not considered in the matching process for article, with the journal title being the main matching element.
We would like additional metadata, such as the article title and author, to be considered in the locate process for resource sharing article requests and/or have a more targeted keyword search mechanism that only consults certain MARC and Dublin Core fields (e.g. a keyword in the title should not match to the publisher field).
Marie Song
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