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Display twitter and messages in the third column
Summon allows us to display messages and Twitter in the third column. Please can Primo be made to do this?
8 votes -
Best bets
Summon has a best bets feature which enables you to have links to Library Opening Hours if that's what someone searches for. Primo doesn't have this, so we are going backwards in customer service when we implement this. Please can you replace Primo with Summon or at least bring Primo up to the same standard?
9 votes -
Harvard referencing (key for UK market for Alma and Primo)
Harvard is the most widely used referencing system in the UK. yet Primo cannot do it. Please make Harvard available asap as we are being forced to change from Summon which has this capability.
10 votes -
BX "Hot articles" is not (yet) in the NUI
It's not the most used function, but still had a respectable 5'000 hits in 2017. We'd like to have it when we change to the NUI in a few weeks, but apparently, it is not yet planned.
1 vote -
marcit loads of e-journals should have a peer-reviewed/open-access subfield
Since there is no sfx ideas exchange, I will post this idea here since there is no trigger/flag for open access or peer-reviewed as part of the MARCIt profile. This would be helpful for journal loads. Seems to me that if you're sitting on the article data, you might be able to flag the journal record within the marcit profile, no?
Thanks,
Allen1 vote -
fix Primo's proxying functionality so it can handle encoding
Propose a solution to this problem: When people try to access content from Primo to Artstor, they are being authenticated into our proxy. After initial authentication into proxy, patrons are not linked to the Artstor result; they are shown an error page (Artstor error), or a generic Artstor resource page--not the actual result. Now that they are logged into the proxy, if they try to access the same link from Primo again, they can get to the result in Artstor properly.
1 vote -
Add F1000 as a citation export option
Please provide the option of adding F1000 to the citation export choices.
1 vote -
validate normalization rules during saving
It would be good if during saving a rule ore a rule set a validation is running to check if the NR is consistent ( such as the existance of all used tables)
4 votes -
MOBILE
The Inter-library Loan option is visible, but greyed out, if the user is not signed in to the Primo new UI, however, on mobile devices, it is not visible at all, i.e. not greyed out.
We think the interface should be identical no matter what device is used.3 votes -
More contact options for "person" in Resource Recommender
Right now in the Resource Recommender, the only 'contact' option for a 'person' is e-mail. We would like more options, possibly including:
URL - This is important because maybe they have a profile page that has more information, for example, in LibGuides. Would also open up the possibility to include a URL that takes the user to a form to request an appointment
Phone number
Hours - Because we're not necessarily able to respond at all hours.
16 votes -
Add MODS template as Date Source for OAI-PMH harvest
Currently, there is no MODS template for OAI-PMH harvesting of external collections. As an example, we have many collections in an Islandora repository and have very rich metadata in MODS format. We lose most of that metadata when the collection is harvested because we must use the DC template as the Source format.
57 votes -
add autocomplete function to search scope dropdown
we have a large number of search scopes which appear in a dropdown in the new ui search box. it's currently possible to type a single letter and jump to the relevant point in the list but it would be a better experience if an autocomplete function could be implemented instead - this would mean that the number of scopes in the dropdown would reduce the more characters are typed. we implemented a customised menu in the classic ui which worked in this way and it was very popular with users...
7 votes -
Calculate item level availability
For most Primo Central Index collections, availability status in Primo is based on your activated portfolio holdings in Alma. These holdings calculate availability at the publication-level based on the coverage entered.
Currently it is not possible to calculate availability in a way that recognizes item-level exceptions, such as when aggregator sources do not receive certain article types ('secondary' articles, brief articles, reviews, etc.) from the original publisher.
The proposed idea is to calculate availability at the item-level.
3 votes -
different treatment/table would be allowed for different citation style.
Different treatment/table would be allowed for different citation formats. Because different citation format require different elements for citation.
For example, currently, the series titles is mapping in citation mapping table. However, not all citation style require this field.
Chicago, the series title, if exists, may choose to include in the citation. Disable the series title means that series title will be missing for all citations in Chicago format. If we don't disable the series titles mapping, the citation output of APA & MLA are incorrect. Allow different citation mapping table with different citation style would improve the citation output result.1 vote -
Make Publisher an Indexable Field that Can be Searched or Scoped in Primo
Many of our users like to search by publisher to find new materials or a particular edition--it would be helpful if that field could at least be picked up by keyword search.
7 votes -
Add Library pre-filter to Primo VE Advanced Search
It would be helpful if users could pre-scope their search to a particular library in the advanced search, rather than waiting to filter with the post-search facets.
8 votes -
Allow for integration with the PaperPile citation manager to Primo VE
PaperPile is a citation manager that integrates with Google Docs. We'd love to see citations that are available to be scraped by it in Primo.
1 vote -
Allow customization of the item status field in Primo
The item status field is misleading for material that is on order. Primo displays a message saying “Item not yet received, expected on DD/MM/YYYY”. This date can be several weeks in the future. It is calculated by adding a set number of days specific to a vendor to the date that the order was sent to the vendor. The number of days is set according to when it is judged to be appropriate to claim items which have not been received. We therefore tend to set it as eight or so weeks in the future for many vendors. In reality…
10 votes -
Displaying the pre-filters used, as the used facets are dispalyed
It would be very useful to display the pre-filters used in Primo New UI (from both simple search screen - as of May release and advanced search screen). Pre-filters used should be displayed in the brief results list just as the facets used are displayed, at the top of the column. Thus the patron can always see and be aware of all the active filters in the session
61 votes -
Our patrons want search function for the list of their favorites and historic loans...
I agree that it's too complicated to search what they read a year ago by scrolling all the way down to check.
4 votes
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