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HTML Language Tag customizable for Screen Readers
In order to improve the accessibility of Primo, it would be helpful if one would be able to choose country-specific language settings for screen readers by the HTML language tag. We would be interested in the language setting “de-AT” to be available to recognize the Austrian variety of the German language. This could also be interesting for a lot of other languages.
60 votes -
Improve resource accessibility with a new field «Request accessible document» in “Digitization optional parameters”
To provide better access to resources for users with disabilities, ETH Library would like to offer its users accessible digital copies. This service requires an additional field in the digitization request form in Primo VE, in which users can indicate if they would like to request an accessible document. This field could be named “Request accessible document” and be added to Discovery > Configuration > GetIt > Digitization optional parameters, so that libraries can enable and disable the field as they like. We think that it would be best if there was a dropdown list available for this field with…
45 votes -
Inform patrons about Pick from Shelf
This is something we are really missing since we switched to Primo VE.
I find a book I want to borrow, my library has it, but it's open stacks, which means I can't request it online to be picked up in the owning library.
In our older catalog we had a pop up message to inform the patrons that they can fetch the item from the shelf themselves.
DTU (https://findit.dtu.dk) solves it like this, which is exactly what we need - see screenshot dtu1.png
Under B, we'd show the possible pickup locations, as we do now.
A is…
30 votes -
Make the PIN code field in Primo My Account a secure text field with eye icon to show/hide the PIN
As a user, I would like to have the possibility to hide the values I have entered in the Pincode field (Update Login Credentials in My Account > Personal Settings) so that the data isn't visible to others. In order to check for typos, I would like to have the possibility to display the data (e.g. by clicking on an eye symbol)
93 votes -
Language field in Brief Record Display ought to use the Language codes Labels (VE)
For institutions with multi-lingual collections, the out-of-the-box Language field can be a useful addition to the record display. When Language is added to the Full Record display, the "Language codes Labels" code table is used to convert the abbreviated codes used in metadata records into generally understood language names–e.g. the code 'gle' displays as 'Irish'.
When the Language field is added to the Brief Record display, however, the labels are NOT used and the code is displayed as-is. Ex Libris recognizes this as a defect (case #06659538) but a solution is not part of the current development work plan. We…
14 votes -
Display Licenses for Results from CDI if holdings are associated with a license
For Primo VE search results, display the license for results obtained from the CDI. Primo already displays the license terms of results obtained from Alma holdings. License terms are displayed next to a Primo VE result that is from an institution’s Alma holding if the Alma holding has a license assigned to it (shown in the Electronic Collection Editor’s General tab in Alma), but the license is not currently displayed when Primo VE search results are obtained from the CDI for the same holding (that does have a license assigned to it.). This would benefit ILL staff who rely on…
13 votes -
Share on social media: add Mastodon and Bluesky
Share on social media from full title display:
Please add Mastodon and Bluesky as options.
Can't speak for Threads as that's blocked in Europe, but would probably make sense to add it at the same time.
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Resource type filter bar: after a search, terms with no hits should be inactive or a counter should be visible
The resource type filter bar under the search field will remind patrons of Google. Which is good, because they know how that works.
But: there is no indication in Primo VE that the filters are also visible and clickable if there are no hits behind them.
Please either add a counter (which would be consistent with the facets in the side column), or deactivate the terms that don't have hits, so that they are not clickable.
Clicking on something and landing on an empty page is frustrating.
-> Book chapters and Music scores have no hits, but the…
1 vote -
Displaying author field in collections in Primo
We have a collection in Primo showcasing publications from our researchers and so we would like to be able to display the author's name to promote the book. See screenshot for what currently displays (title and book cover).
21 votes -
Remove Pickup location entry from digitization entry in my requests
When digitization requests are in process, a pickup location is displayed. This doesn't make sense for something that is a digitization or document delivery request, since there is nothing to "pickup". I realize this is a holdover from the photocopy days, but perhaps it might make more sense if patrons had the option to request physical delivery for a digitization request ("request physical copy") and ask them to designate a pickup location rather than having users assign a pickup location for all digital requests.
1 vote -
Add document delivery transactions to Requests tab in 'My Account'
Current digitization (document delivery/digitization) requests are shown when requests are in process. I would like docdel and digitization requests to be available in the Requests tab until they are expired.
Ideally, a download button would be available while the document is available ( before the doc expires or max views has been exceeded) and the number of remaining views is displayed (see image).
1 vote -
Separate the Primo My Account Update Login Credentials form into two different forms for PIN code and Password
As a user, I would like to have two different forms for Pincode update and Password update (Update Login Credentials in My Account > Personal Settings) so I am sure that I can also change only one of the two. With the current design (=one form for PIN and password update), it is suggested to me that I always have to update both.
10 votes -
Support "Exact year" date search in Advanced Search
If a user knows the exact year they want to limit to, they have to type it in twice, whether they are using the facet option or the Advanced Search dropdown for Date Range. It would be helpful if the Advanced Search had a "Exact year" option with a single field to fill in.
4 votes -
Title in "digital collection" section
In Primo VE, within the "Digital Collections" section, digital records currently display the entire content of field 245 as the title. This results in excessively lengthy titles for certain entries. Ideally, we would prefer that only subfield 245$$a be shown as the title within the "Digital Collections" section.
6 votes -
Hide collections
Right now public Primo collections need to be deleted in order to hide them from public view; correspondingly, if a collection is suppressed from Discovery when it is created, it cannot be unsuppressed. It would be useful to be able to simply hide and unhide collections easily, for things like making changes, or themed collections whose time have passed.
6 votes -
Make the Blank Request Form Customizable Based on User Group
Make the Blank Request Form customizable based on which user group is logging in to use it.
We are switching to using the Blank Request Form for resource sharing, however as a library that serves a university, college and community we would like to be able to customize which fields patrons see based on their user group.
Our university students have the option of picking up items at any of our consortium partner schools. The college and community members do not have this option. However there is no way to prevent them from seeing the pick up anywhere option on…
3 votes -
Inform users when wildcard limit has been reached for local records (when still displaying CDI results)
Based on Salesforce case 06390632.
When using wildcards in a Primo search, there is a limit to how many you can use before the search triggers an error that excludes all local records.
This limit is only for local records. The CDI search does not follow the same limitations and will still gather results even if this limit is reached.
If a users crosses the wildcard threshold when searcing in a scope containing only local records, there will be an error message displayed that explains why no results were found. However, if the same search is done in a…
43 votes -
Collection Discovery: "new" pagination method instead of endless scrolling
Already some time ago (May 2021 Release) Ex Libris has rolled out the "new" pagination method: users can now specify whether to display 10, 25, or 50 results per page.
This works also in the "Database Search" and the "Journal Search" but not in the "Collection Discovery" section of Primo.
"Collection Discovery" still provides the old endless scrolling method (Button "Load More Results") where you quickly run into brower performance problems if a collection contains my items.Please make the "new" pagination method also availalbe in the "Collection Discovery" area.
Thank you in advance!35 votes -
Make both the label and the code from the controlled vocabulary registry searchable
When adding a controlled vocabulary to the registry and afterwards connecting it to a certain MARC field in Primo VE, patrons now can only search using the code and not the label.
As an example imagine a controlled vocabulary with the entry ECON (code) and Economy and Finance (label). If ECON (the code) is stored in the record and the patron searches for Economy and Finance in that field (in advanced filter), he or she will get no results. If you search for ECON however all relevant records will be returned.
Of course the patrons are not supposed to know…1 vote -
Fill the gap of Open Access CDI records not marked with the Open Access icon and facet
The Open Access icon and facet were added to Primo in May 2018, per previous submission: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/19130257-open-access-flag-for-open-access-content
This is applied at metadata level by provider feed first for PCI and now CDI.
This current decision is the root cause for a significant gap in the number of OA records incorrectly not marked as OA.
For example, tens of thousands of PloS One articles not marked as OA.In September 2022 a change is made in terms of the link proxy being removed when it is determined at the link level that the access is OA.
But unfortunately this change is…19 votes
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