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Primo VE: Availability of print inventory with multiple holdings
In Primo VE, when availability is calculated for print inventory with holdings in multiple libraries, please show the library with the most items first.
For example if there are 25 items in the Main Library and 3 items in the Law Library, Primo should display “Available at Main Library… and other locations”.
Primo should not display “Available at Law Library… and other locations.”Thank you.
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Number of items excluding EBSCO would be shown in PCI facet
When I set a mixed search of Primo PCI and EBSCO API on Primo VE, facet doesn't display number of items of each facet and the sort of facet is out of control. I have heard that this is due to the specification of the EBSCO API. I think that if it is impossible to show the number of EBSCO results, as a second solution, only the number of PCI results, excluding EBSCO, should be displayed.
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HAL : issue about "full text access" link
HAL https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ is one of the major open repository in French.
Some publications give full text access, others not. See screenshot attached.
We did activate for search Hyper Article en Ligne (HAL) in PCI.
Our concern is that all HAL publications in PRIMO display with "full text access" link even when there is no full text.Please have a look to the example : Reconceptualizing the classification of PNAS articles.
This issue generates lots of complains from our final users. HAL is very well used in French speaking countries.so could you fix this and indicate "full text access" when…
30 votes -
Include Course Information with Coures Icon in brief record display
We would like the option to include the Course Information (from the full record) with the Course icon for the breif record display for course reserves. This way students can quickly see the information without having to open the record.
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Allow more than four fields to display in the Brief Record Display
Please allow more than 4 fields to display in the brief record display. We would like Course Informaton to display for our Course Reserves. Why is there a limit? We should be able to add as many fields as we would like to the brief record display.
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My Library Card: Indicate number of loans at each library
Listed in the left margin of the My Library Card page in our multi-campus / multi-library environment are the names of each library from which a user has requested or borrowed an item. To save the user time in finding relevant, timely information, we'd like the number of items currently "in play" (on loan, requested, with associated fines, etc.) displayed next to each library in that list.
2 votes -
short loan
Display due times for short loans in Primo, using the time format specified in Alma, rather than defaulting to showing due times in military (24h) time.
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Add Course Reserve Public Notes to Primo VE record details display
A proscribed set of Course Information can be displayed in the Primo VE record details, but there is no way to add other notes or information related to course reserve in Primo VE, as there is in Leganto. There is a Public Notes field in Alma's Reading List > Citation > Citation Parameters settings, but this note can only be displayed in Leganto. If the Public Note could be made available for display in the Primo VE record as well it could be used in conjunction with the Course Information display to provide important information to end users -- for…
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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.
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Search Loans within user Account
We have users who would like to be able to search within their list of currently checked out items. At present, the only options are (1) export the list of loans to BibTeX or RIS and search them in another program, or (2) sort by checkout date or title. When faculty have 400 items checked out, neither of these options is feasible. They would like a search box option within their account to search across all the items they have checked out.
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Add spacing between multiple entries of same marc field
Often, and especially in archival description, we use the same marc fields several times in the same record. So, more than 1 520 (description/scope&content) or more than 1 545 (bio/hist note) and many others.
The current display in primo ve kinda "smooshes" them all together. Would be great for readability if there was at least a space between multiple entries of the same field in any given record. Attachment has example in primo ve and one in - believe it or not - digitool, where there are extra spaces between each of the repeated fields. Much easier to read.
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Improve the browse callnumber functionality in Primo VE to include Moys callnumbers
As a Primo VE law academic or student I would like the Moys callnumbers to be browsable in Primo VE. They are a special classification suited to my subject area. This functionality was previously available.
Background
Moys call numbers are not supported in Primo VE, even though they display in the Alma Browse functionality.Primo NUI did display them correctly.
Having invested considerable resourcing in developing Moys classification for our Law collections it is frustrating that we are no longer able to browse these callnumbers.
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Contextual Relationships - chapters
- Only display chapters for the volume being viewed, i.e. chapters from vol. 2 of the Cambridge Ancient History rather than chapters from all the volumes (230 in all!)
- Display chapters in page number order ( we can’t figure out the logic behind the current order of display)
- For multi-volume titles, a “other volumes in this title” link in addition to other chapters from the same volume
2 votes -
Make user-created tags keyword searchable.
Currently, user-created tags are findable via the tag portal in the Ellipsis, or they can be searched in the Advanced Search by specifying the tag field. We would like to be able to make them keyword searchable in the basic search.
3 votes -
When an item has representations for use in Leganto that are suppressed in Primo VE, remove the View Online section
Currently we have print books with digital representations attached in Alma, for use in Leganto. We suppress these representations from Primo by using a note and display logic as this is the only option currently available. However this means that the book in Primo shows an "available online" status in the brief results, and when the full record is opened there is a View Online (GetIT tab) section that is just blank. Returning to the brief results then shows "Check available services". This is very confusing to users. We would like to have a different method of suppressing that means…
53 votes -
PrimoVE : Allow splitting Dublin Core Fields
As we have set up Discovery import profiles to import Dublin Core data from other institutions into our PrimoVE instance, we have discovered a few institutions that concatenate the DC:CREATOR and DC:SUBJECT fields into a single field.
The ability to split these fields in normalization would be extremely useful in the Primo environment.
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Primo VE: Campus facet
For larger libraries, it would be helpful to have a Campus facet, as a superstructure to the Libraries facet (which can be very long). Unfortunately, this cannot currently be created as a local facet.
41 votes -
Browse by government document call number
Currently, we don't have the option of browsing call numbers in the 086 field in Primo VE. This is a problem for the many libraries who work with government documents and use government documents call number schemes. Being able to search for single call numbers doesn't help for tasks where you need a list ordered by call numbers (like taking inventory, weeding, and assigning new call numbers). Please add a government documents call number browse index.
14 votes -
Provide an option for users to see all items in an electronic collection
Alma allows us to make the bib record for an electronic collection like Wiley e-Books viewable by customers in Primo. We would like the contents of the electronic collection to be displayed when the user clicks on the electronic collection name in Primo.
5 votes -
Add records from Citation-only databases and/or "Citation Availability" statements
We need to give our users access to the wide range of content to which we subscribe, including the records in citation-only databases. If we subscribe to a resource and activate it in Alma, we would like these resources to be included in our "Filter by availability" searches in Primo VE -- even if the content is citation rather than full article text. When we "expand my results", too much additional content (such as non-licensed ebooks from selected packages) are included. We want to be able to include citation records but exclude inaccessible content. There isn't a way to do…
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