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  1. Journals A-Z: Subject-indexing or discipline-indexing of titles

    Librarians and faculty members alike would like the ability to search the Journals A-Z list by subject or discipline. This is available in SFX's A-Z/Journal Title Finder functionality, and would be highly useful in Primo as well. User Services and Teaching/IL Librarians would use it to create Subject Guides and other instructional materials, while Collections Librarians would use it to help in acquisitions decision-making. Faculty members would like to refer students to quick lists of discipline-specific resources, as well as use such lists for their own current awareness and professional development.

    356 votes
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  2. Better analytics for resource recommender to tell how many times recommendation is triggered and how often it is clicked

    The resource recommender can be a very new tool to help improve the user experience of searchers.

    However without proper analytics it is hard to tell if all the effort done to create them have had an impact.

    Hence it would be helpful to have data like

    Analytics that tell staff

    a) How often a recommendation is triggered or most common recommendations shown
    b) How often a recommendation is clicked

    41 votes
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  3. Add IEEE citation style

    For engineering users, they would like to be able to format the bibliographic information into IEEE citation format.

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  4. Session Timeout Warning

    It would be most helpful if a 'Session Timeout' warning could be displayed a certain amout of time before the session actually ends. Included in the warning could be the options to 'keep me logged in' or 'log out now'.

    60 votes
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  5. Open Access Flag for Open Access Content

    Open Access Content in Primo Central should be marked with an open access flag in the search or the facet section.
    As a result it should be possible to search or filter on open access content regardless of the frontend (Primo or via API).

    94 votes
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  6. Email results in new interface - records too long and not currently configurable

    With the new UI, the emailing function appears to have been altered from a minimised style that we have in the classic primo to a very full view in the new one.

    • in the Classic UI, indeed, the different formats have been used when user was sending results by email: (a) sending from Brief View or Full View creates a long version of formatted content (b) sending from eShelf creates a brief list of formatted content

    However, in both cases, there is no configuration available as to define which fields should be part of the format, this is currently hardcoded…

    51 votes
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    Completed  ·  AdminNili Natan (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    Thank you for this suggestion. The ability to customize the email is available now in Primo November release and planned for Primo VE in February 2020 release.
    Please read more on the options to customize in “Improved Email Template for Send To Email Action”
    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Release_Notes/2019/001Primo_2019_Release_Notes
    and in https://github.com/ExLibrisGroup/primo-explore-package/blob/master/VIEW_CODE/html/README.md#email-templates

  7. Citation Trail on the Brief display in Primo New UI

    Our users miss the Citation trail on the brief display in the New UI.

    eg "when researching a new subject one strategy is to look for articles that have a number of citations. This helps to find those articles that are cited a lot and so are especially significant within a domain and also allows a way to quickly expand reading to cover other relevant articles. Having the citations appear on the results list therefore helps to identify such articles without having to click through each one in turn, making searches more efficient.

    I am doing my MSc dissertation research…

    26 votes
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  8. Add an option to "expand my results" from the "no records found" page

    Currently the "no records found" page doesn't provide an option to "expand my results". Since the default behavior is to search without that option, a properly formed query for an existing item outside our collections yields the discouraging no results page. The message provides suggestions like "check your spelling." Please provide an option to try the search again with "expand my results". Ideally, Primo would know ahead of time if such an expansion would yield results and would only offer it if that was the case.

    72 votes
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  9. Delete and Monitor User-Submitted Tags in Primo

    I would love our students and patrons to adopt the tag functionality in Primo. I like that adding a tag requires being logged-in, which reduces possibility of automated or commercial spam significantly. But there's still significant likelihood of users applying tags with humorous or malicious intent.

    Two functions would greatly increase our likelihood of using this functionality rather than just hiding it via CSS:
    1. Allow administrators to delete tags.
    2. Allow administrators to review tags by searching and browsing in order of most recently applied first.

    Our implementation coordinator stated that this is currently unavailable for multitenant hosted Primo…

    31 votes
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  10. New Search link in new Primo UI should unlock & reset sticky facets

    Can the new Primo UI be configured so all locked facets are unlocked and reset when the user clicks the “New Search”link on top of the new Primo UI toolbar?

    Since the locked facets are programmed to remain active for the session, even after clicking “New Search”, the user may receive unanticipated results, and/or a result set of “No Records Found” if the sticky facets don’t apply to the new search.

    For an example: A search on history narrowed to the subject of “History & Archaeology” with facets “Available in the Library” and NOT “Video” does a nice job of…

    12 votes
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  11. allow all fines (closed and open) to show in patron's library account online

    Patrons can only see active fines in their library account, but they need to be able to see all closed and paid fines as well so they can review what has been charged to them and what they have already paid. This is key especially when fines are exported to the bursar office since those are marked as 'closed' and students can no longer review them!

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  12. New books Carousel

    Hello, we all saw EDS New books Carousel and liked it.
    We want Ex Libris to develop new books carousel for Primo customers. please look at AUR Library - The American University of Rome page [https://www.aur.edu/], from the university main page choose the library and you'll get to EDS.
    I'm attaching a screen capture of the library home page with the new books carousel.
    Thank you!

    153 votes
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  13. Integrate the Alma Digital Viewer into the Primo UI

    I see a breaks in the user experience consistency with the Alma/Primo combination with the link to digital objects in Primo. The link is opening the Alma Digital Viewer and it's look and feel is totally different from the Primo UI. Primo is the interface to the customer. Please integrate the UI into Primo and let Alma manage the objects and the metadata.

    What my webmaster is missing and criticising on the Digital Viewer page:
    - it delivers the wrong favicon
    - link behind the Alma logo points to the actual Digital Viewer page
    - link behind the institutional logo…

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  14. Institutions are able to choose how a record is selected as the record to appear in the results list as part of the frbr process

    Where there are different editions of a work available, Primo groups these and uses the record with the richest metadata to display as the top record in the results list. Often this is not the most recent edition of the work. This can be misleading for users who believe the edition appearing in the results list to be the latest edition and so seek this out. For us, this has meant requests for items held on off-campus stores have been requested rather than a more recent edition held on the open stacks. I would like to suggest, therefore, that institutions…

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    Completed  ·  AdminNili Natan (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    You can now define the preferred record displayed for FRBR to be the recent edition – this is coming with Primo November 2020 release and already released for Primo VE in Q2 2020, as part of NERS 6230 – Enable option to favour latest edition of bibliographic work to top the FRBR group.

  15. Allow users to personalize default scope for them

    Option to allow a Primo user to select which scope they prefer to work with when multiple scopes. Two possibilities - allow this to be set for as a saved option for signed-in users only, or allow this to be set as a cookie for guest users and be saved as a cookie on that computer. This could apppear as a "Personalize" selection.

    This will truly empower users - e.g. if they don't want to see Primo Central results most of the time, they will not be hampered by the library's choice of "All" as a default scope. Or if…

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    Completed  ·  AdminNili Natan (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    Thank you for posting this suggestion. The direction we choose to implement to allow users to easily navigate to their recent used scopes, you can find more details in Primo August release notes – Easy Selection of recent used search scopes. this is planned to be released in Primo VE September release .

  16. Lateral linking as standard option for more fields

    At this moment, lateral links are available OTB for authors and subjects; and can be implemented for local fields.
    We ‘d like lateral linking to be a standard option for more fields like : ispartof, relation and unititle.
    Use case is a series link in tab Details.

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  17. Add starts with functionality to Call Number field in the advanced search

    "starts with" functionality should be added to the Call Number field in the advanced search in Primo.

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  18. Copy citations to the clipboard in rich text format

    The "citation" tool copies citations to the clipboard in plain text format. Could Primo be modified to allow citations to be copied in rich-text format, in order to preserve the formatting in the citation?

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  19. exclude/include reviews from resultlist

    There should be an option "expand my results to include book reviews", similarly to the option "expand my results beyond library collection" in the facets. While having reviews in the list is helpful for some tasks (e.g. acquisitions) they appear misleading to our students and we wish to exclude them by default.

    119 votes
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  20. Citation Linker: Article should be default tab instead of Journal or option to configure

    The Citation Linker defaults to Journal. We would like the default to be Article since that is how we use Citation Linker the most. We have found that in order to get this to work we would have to do custom java coding.

    We would like for Citation Linker to either default to Article or have the ability to easily configure it to show a tab of our choice.

    21 votes
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    Completed  ·  Yuval Kiselstein responded

    We are happy to announce that this functionality is available in the Primo new UI from May release

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