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Add Due Date to Real Time Availability Status in Brief Records
We would like to be able to see the status messages to include Due Dates, where applicable.
Example: add date to Not available - Loan message, something along the lines of Not available - Checked out until {date}.8 votes -
Improved Display of Coverage Statements for Taylor and Francis Journals autoholdings collection.
Taylor and Francis adds multiple coverage rows to reflect the different purchasing methods. For example, one line may represent perpetual access while another indicates current access. This is why some coverage statements appear to overlap.
We propose to:
1. Retain the purchase type (e.g., perpetual, current) for each coverage statement within Alma.
2. Present only non-overlapping coverage statements to users in primo.
This enhancement is planned as an upgrade to the current functionality, but there is no set release date as of now.
To help expedite this enhancement, the support team suggested to open an idea exchange to encourage all…71 votes -
Research Assistant Usage Statistics
Having activated the Proquest/Ebook Research Assistant capabilities it is good practice for institutions to be able to report on impact - has the functionality aided user access to material - increased length of time on site - increased usage of holdings. The FAQ state https://support.proquest.com/s/article/ProQuest-Research-Assistant-FAQs?language=en_US
Q: Are there usage report that I can download to view usage of the Research Assistant at my institution?A: Currently we do not provide a report that libraries can download to assess usage of the Research Assistant at their institution. We are looking at the possibility of adding such reports to the ProQuest Administrator…
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Add an "audiobook" indicator to CDI records
We want to make it possible for our users to facet to and search more effectively for audiobooks.
In CDI records, both non-musical and musical audio materials have the same resource type, audio, and there is no way to distinguish between non-musical and musical audio materials. Our researchers have identified this as an accessibility issue and barrier for use because they are not able to identify audiobooks in our Primo catalog. Locating audiobooks is important both for general research and to provide access for those needing audio formats.
For local records, we can identify audiobooks by creating local/secondary resource types…1 vote -
Display of Advanced Search Pre-filters in the “Searched for” section in the Advanced Search summary
Currently, the “Searched for” section in the Advanced Search summary does not display complete pre-filter information. We believe it would be beneficial for users to see a complete summary of all search parameters, including any date range pre-filters applied in Advanced Search.
For example, if a user searches with the following criteria:
All Subjects contains exact phrase North Korea
Resource Type: Books
Date: 2016–2026
the search results currently display only "Searched for: All Subjects contains exact phrase North Korea"
We ask that the “Searched for” summary reflect the full set of applied filters, such as "Searched for: All Subjects contains…
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Make "patron default sort" an optional feature
Please allow customers to disable the Patron Default Sort feature. [1]
Since this feature was added to Primo last year, we are regularly contacted by perplexed users wondering why relevancy ranking isn't working. Invariably, the users had selected a different sort option the last time they used Primo and did not realize that Primo would remember their sort options in the future.
If there are no plans to implement this feature in NDE, please disregard this request.
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List of Stop Words in Catalan
Alma/Primo clients in Catalan cannot use the Full Text Indexing utility in Primo VE with all its functionality because there is no Stop Word List implemented in Catalan.
Because of this and the 10,000 terms limit per indexed file, the included PDFs are not fully indexed.
We are 17 university libraries and a national library (Biblioteca de Catalunya) that form part of the University Union Catalogue of Catalonia (CCUC); 2 university libraries from València (Universitat Jaume I and Universitat d’Alacant); and 62 collaborative institutions with special libraries.
We contribute to the visibility of more than 12 million documents and…
53 votes -
Access to Primo Research Assistant search queries
In the same way we can view Primo VE popular search and zero results searches in Analytics, we would like to be able to see anonymised user search queries for the Research Assistant, to be able to tailor support content and understand user expectations for this tool.
24 votes -
Do not show availability for CDI/Alma records with matching GTI ID
Occasionally, CDI records will show availability for physical items (holdings/digitization offers via Rapido), and the physical records will show online availability. To our understanding, this is due to a matching GTI ID. We were informed in a SF case that it is currently not possible to resolve this. As this leads to confusion for our libraries (mainly digitization requests for an electronic resource) we would be glad if a solution could be found to no longer show these incorrect availabilities (or at least for the digitization requests to show the physical record they were actually placed on).
Example: https://ubs.swisscovery.slsp.ch/permalink/41SLSP_UBS/giv3ks/cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_978354048849174 votes -
Display Number of Renewals on Patron Library Card in Primo VE
Currently, Primo VE does not display the number of renewals for a patron’s loans on the patron’s library card. We propose an enhancement to allow the number of renewals (used and/or remaining) to be displayed in Primo VE for patron loans. This should appear on the patron’s library card.
Providing this information directly in Primo VE would improve transparency for patrons.4 votes -
Enhancing visibility of Open Access indication for CDI article records
Problem:
[see 1OAPrimo.png] Currently, the Open Access indication appears under a title in Primo for Open Access CDI article records, which can confuse library users. They might think that all collections under "View Online" are all full-text open access.Idea: To enhance clarity for users, we recommend first configuring Alma settings to control the display of the Open Access indication, followed by adjustments in Primo.
[In Alma] [see 2OAPrimo.png] We propose adding a tick box or a dedicated field within the service level settings to indicate open access. When enabled, this setting will control whether the OA indication appears.
[In…
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FRBR/Dedup reports and overviews
Experimenting with FRBR/Dedup currently requires finding ad hoc examples of records that might be frbrized or deduped. This complicates the administration of this feature as it is not possible to get an overview which records might be affected by some kind of setting.
It would be very helpful of it would possible in some way to get an overview of:
- Which records have any type of deduping
- Which records have any type of FRBR-ization
- Which records have been suppressed from FRBR/Dedup
Currently this is only possible to check on a record by record basis. The backend could improve by, for…
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Support MARC field 857 (Web Archive Links) in Primo VE
Please add support for MARC field 857 in Primo VE so that links stored in this field can be displayed in the Links section, similar to MARC field 856.
Field 857 is increasingly used by libraries to store links to archived versions of web resources (e.g., web archive snapshots). Currently, these links are not displayed in Primo VE, even when the field is present in the MARC record.
Supporting field 857 would allow libraries to expose web archive links and preserved web content directly to users and better support web archiving and digital preservation initiatives.
Why this helps many institutions:
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IZ level view configuration
As a library network with a large number of Primo views, it can be extremely laborious to update every single view for configuration options that are identical in each view. These include in particular all configuration options that can be found in the General, Links, Advance Search, Brief results, Brief record display and Full Record Services tab of the view configuration menu.
This kind of centralised view management would need to be available at the IZ level as it does not fulfil the same purpose as the possibility to distribute configuration from the the Network Zone to the various Institution…
124 votes -
Dedup and FRBR Test Utility
Could the Dedup and FRBR Test Utility (Configuration/discovery) have the ability to remember the last MMS ID numbers that were looked up? We seem to spend a lot of time going back and forth to the same records trying to get them to match and having to find and paste in the MMS of both, e.g. the print and the eBook records - usually from the Primo URL where I invariably pick up the preceding word, Alma. It would be great if it retained the last couple of MMS searched for to save a bit of time and effort.
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replace "Do not show as Full Text available in CDI even if active in Alma" with a pair of show local / show CDI checkboxes
To avoid duplicates when we have both local portfolios and CDI records, we can rely on the "Do not show as Full Text available in CDI even if active in Alma".
Enabling this feature will show in Primo local IZ portfolios, and is very good when local records are rich and CZ records are limited/poor.
Sometimes however CDI records are richer and provide indexing at chapter level. In such a case we would like to hide IZ local portfolios and show CDI records instead.
It would be therefore useful and clearer to replace the "Do not show as Full Text…100 votes -
A function for academics to easily check a reference list for AI gen imaginary references
Allow academics to cut and paste references from a student assignment to be alerted to potential 'imaginary' references created by GenAI tools.
It's currently possible to check each reference individually but a way to provide a set of references to Primo and get a report of what is probably real and probably not real (worthy of digging deeper) would be of some assistance to academics navigating assessment challenges in an AI world.
I don't intend anything punitive from this - I see this as part of the educational journey of a student in learning academic integrity.
16 votes -
Fix Core Flaw: (VE / NDE) Holdings Configurations Must Apply to All Locations, including Temporary Locations
Description:
This request is being submitted at the direction of the support team, although it addresses a critical flaw in core functionality, not a new enhancement or feature.The flaw exists in Primo VE and Support will not confirm that the flaw will not be carried over into the Next Discovery Experience (NDE).
Problem:
Primo VE effectively ignores the configurations for holdings field display when an item is moved to a temporary location. Only the default holdings statement automatically generated from the item records is displayed. Due to other known issues, this auto-generated statement presents potentially inaccurate information to library…15 votes -
Add a field "Author Affiliation"
Could you please add the field "Author Affiliation" for display? Currently, "Author Affiliation" is not displayable in Primo but only in search.
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Related titles in Primo VE records display: separate window
When records have bib-to-bib relationships via 8XX (or 7XX), the list of related titles is displayed in the Details section of the series/host record. Unfortunately, the list is currently sorted alphabetically by the title, which is very user-unfriendly with a large number of linked titles.
This behavior has already been criticized in this idea. Unfortunately, it is still not possible to sort the related titles logically by sequence or volume.
The Austrian Library Association (OBV) uses Primo BO and has implemented a user-friendly solution for displaying related titles:
In the case of multi-volume works and series, the individual volumes are…145 votes
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