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Primo VE: enable search fields for the deepURLs
InPrimo VE, in the "search" : {} section of the PNX record there are some fields that are still not searchable,
like the "unimarclocalfields". It would be nice if all these would be accesssible with the deepURL query parameter
I.E.: query=unimarclocalfields,contains,XYZ.35 votes -
Create/add in the ability to show and filter ALL content by place of publication and other data point relevant for decolonising collections
With linked data being such a big part of what has being talked about so far in relation to NDE and AI being used in some new projects such as Primo:Research Assistant, we feel that it's the best time to think about using this data and the data in the CDI records to try and develop tools to identifying, show, filter place of publication or nationality of authors.
We have developed our own facet using local fields, regular expressions and information in the MARC 008 to display the place of publication for items in our collection and filter by facet…
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Primo VE: Facet «Publication format» displays entries with capital letters and suppresses apostrophes
We noticed that the facet "Publication format" displays the entries with capital letters at the beginning of each word, and sometimes suppress the apostrophe too (see enclosures). This is a problem, because we never do display words in this manner in French or German. It really looks weird and we would like to avoid that for our users.
Thanks !
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Allow deduping between MARC and DC records with non-filing characters in title
It is currently not possible to dedup MARC and Dublin Core records if the title field contains non-filing characters.
Primo VE can perform deduplication between MARC records in Alma and DC records that are ingested via discovery import profiles. However, the dedup title keys that are generated for MARC records take into account if the title has non-filing characters (such as initial articles), as indicated in the 245 second indicator. It is not possible to indicate non-filing characters for DC records. Therefore, records that would otherwise be matches for deduplication have different titles.
For example, a record with the title…
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Allow Indexing and Display of 788 Field
Would like for the indexing and display of 788 field in Primo VE.
The 788 field allows catalogers to make discoverable parallel descriptions in another language https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd788.html and https://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/7xx/788.html
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Add option to filter out Global title index results without any offer
When creating a scope that include CDI records non filtered per availability (Rapido-CDI expanded index), Global title index without any offer (no Get it section, no view online section and no item available in the Rapido tile) are retrieved (example). These records are owned by libraries participating in any POD (outside of ours) of Rapido.
We would like to have an option to exclude the Global title index results without an offer.
102 votes -
Enable more fields for export to Mendeley, at least the permalink to the record
It would be very helpful for users if the permalink to the record could be exported to Mendeley.
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Use "Receiving Date" as a search facet to allow for the configuration of "New Arrivals" pages/searches.
being allowed to use the "receiving date" field, rather than the "creation date" as a facet will help libraries to be able to display new arrivals to the collection; items that are actually in the library and read to circulate. As the "creation date" is often the date of the order, these items are not available for use for many months depending on the supply chain.
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Book Covers en ALMA- Very good service for the user.
The Spanish Conference of Bookstore Guilds and Associations (CEGAL) has created a functionality on its All Your Books platform with which to automatically include book covers.
Information that other Integrated Library Management Systems are executing this functionality.
https://www.baratz.es/todos-tus-libros-nueva-opcion-para-las-portadas-automaticas-en-absysnet/1 vote -
Primo VE, Quicklinks and "Available Online" indication
We’d like the "Available Online" text in be suppressed if Quicklinks are displayed for the citation in the brief results display.
As the librarians put it:
"to turn off the "Available Online"
link/message if the quick links are available. “And alternately, "... make the "Available Online" link go directly to the article like the "Read PDF" Quicklink option does? "
Reducing the number of possible links to click on would improve Primo VE.
Thanks.10 votes -
Export to Leganto from OneSearch - course information
Export to Leganto from OneSearch under 'full Record Services' - to include course information in addition to the already existing reading list information. Or, e.g. allow the lists to be searchable by typing e.g. the title/name
− Role: Course instructors
− Proposed feature: Be able to additionally see the course information as well as the existing reading list pneumonic/title when making a selection from the list, or be searchable by typing in the name of the list
− Feature’s benefit: Make it much easier and quicker to find the right resource list to add the title to. It is currently…
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Linked Open Data - Discovery of Person Entity with HKCAN name authorities
With the Primo VE May 2024 release, an option to enrich our library catalogue with linked open data of person entities is available. We understand that currently this enrichment is only available to personal headings linked to LC name vocabulary. However, in all of JULAC libraries, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean personal headings are mostly linked up with HKCAN name authority vocabulary. So, a vast amount of our records are not enriched with the linked open data. We'd like to propose extending this linked open data enrichment to person entities with HKCAN name authorities. Thank you for considering!
Salesforce ref. 07228906
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Research Assistant suggested subjects
In Research Assistant, it may be beneficial to offer users a list of relevant Primo subjects. Users may go to Primo VE & look excatly for the subjects suggested by the Research Assistant.
1 vote -
Add label to view it section in front of service provider link
Add a label to the front of the service provider name in the view it section so that it can be made clearer that users should click on this to access the resource. At the moment we have to use a customization to add text but it would be easier to maintain if this was a standard label.
3 votes -
Reference to public licenses of other institutions within the consortium
Public licenses can be viewed in Primo VE's electronic holdings information area, but public licenses are not displayed in the electronic holdings display area of other institutions.
I would like to be able to display public licenses from other institutions within the consortium on my own institution's Primo VE.
Without this function, I think that being able to view information on other institutions' electronic holdings would have little effect.
Detailed information is attached.45 votes -
Remove the total number of results
It would be useful if the total number of results are hidden by default from the search results page, but patrons have the option in their user account settings to enable the total number of results.
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Ask for confirmation when deleting saved searches
In “Saved searches” and “Search history” sections, when clicking on remove icon, the query is deleted immediately.
A popup asking for confirmation could help preventing unwanted deletions
3 votes -
Resource Recommender: allow users to dismiss
This is important especially on small screens, where RRs can get in the way when not pertinent to a user's needs.
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Expand Primo VE Browse Search to include dc:subject tags from Discovery Import Profile targets
The Primo VE Browse Search currently includes only those bibliographic items that are managed within Alma.
Since Discovery Import Profiles bring external data sources into the Primo VE search index, it would be an improvement to incorporate harvested dc:subject (or similar) fields into the Browse Search.
Often libraries have collections - especially digital ones - managed outside of Alma, but metadata is brought into Primo VE in order to provide a true all-of-library-collections search. Adding the ability to run a Browse Search across this imported metadata would be a useful feature.
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Suppress Resource Sharing Request Form when consortium-owned items are unavailable
Please provide a pathway, via Display Logic Rules or otherwise, that would allow us to suppress the Resource Sharing Request Form in instances where an item owned by another institution in our consortium is UNAVAILABLE. Right now, all we can do in this case is modify a text message at the top of the form and hope that the user understands that s/he will need to use the interlibrary loan request form instead.
3 votes
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