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one-click-unsubscribe link for saved searches emails
saved search emails that are send on regular basis should include a link to quickly unsubscribe from the alert.
It is a common and userfriendly practice to include unsubscribe links in newsletters so they wont need to login to their account to change this. Email alerts may be annoying to the patrons in case of shifting interests unsubscribe/subscribe easily will uplift the usage of this particular service.
6 votesThank you for this suggestion. This was released in Primo in May release and planned for Primo VE in the second half of 2019
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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.
144 votesThis is to update that this feature is now available in February 2023 release for Primo / Primo VE.
Best regards,
Yael.
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Ability to choose more granular subject links and not just the entire string, as in: "Comic books, strips, etc -- Social aspects -- United"
Ability to choose a section of a subject links and not just the entire string. E.g. "Comic books, strips, etc -- Social aspects -- United States" can only be selected as a whole, but not as individual parts, such as "Comic books, strips, etc."
81 votesThank you for this suggestion. This is now part of Primo November release, read more “|Support Display of Subject Chains in Full Display (New UI Only)” https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Release_Notes/2019/001Primo_2019_Release_Notes
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Add AMA (American Medical Association) as Citation Style
Currently, the Primo Action functionality allows for APA, Chicago, and MLA citation styles. In order to benefit students of Medicine and Science, we would like to add AMA (American Medical Association) as a possible citation style.
34 votesPrimo now supports Citation Style Language (CSL).
You can now manage and include additional citation style languages, which are stored in GitHub’s CSL Style Repository -
Enable actions for loans/requests in My Account
Right now in Primo, if you have items checked out at your library, you can't do anything with them in the UI. You can't send to RefWorks, email, etc. Users would like to be able to send these items to citation management tools and they currently can’t do that. From the loan list, there is no link back to the full record.
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No way back to original/seed article when using either the new Citations or Cited By buttons
The pages a user reaches when clicking either the new "Citations" or "Cited By" buttons do not provide any way for user to get back to the original/seed article. Making users rely on the browser's back button is not user-friendly.
40 votesThis functionality is now available as part of the citation trail in the new Primo UI
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Improve APA citation format to include the DOI for an article
APA citation format should include the DOI information for journal articles. As recommended by APA.
http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/digital-object-identifier-doi/
However citations from Primo do not include a DOI.
We note that Summon is able to do this and hope that the defect be resolved.
eg from Primo
Hooper, L. (2012). ExLibris's Primo and Musical Research. Music Reference Services Quarterly, 15(2), 119-124.
and from Summon
Hooper, L. (2012). ExLibris's primo and musical research. Music Reference Services Quarterly, 15(2), 119. doi:10.1080/10588167.2012.672088126 votesThank you for this idea, with the enhancement of supporting Citation Style Language (CSL) in Primo, the mapping of data was improved. The DOI is included for APA style taken from CSL official repository
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Include the item barcode as part of the data published from Alma to Primo in the AVA field to improve item search in Primo
Request for Alma item barcode be included in the data that is published to Primo as part of the Alma publishing functionality to enable barcode searchability in the Primo keyword search. We have discovered that items migrated from our previous ILS do contain the item barcode(s) in the MARC 945 $$i and is written to the search:general field of the PNX. As such, those items are keyword searchable via their barcode in Primo. However, for items created in Alma, the item barcode is not written to the bib record and is therefore not searchable in Primo. Adding the item barcode…
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API for Primo Analytics
Idea: ExLIbris to provide an API for access Primo Analytics in a similar manner as Alma Analytics API
Reason: Without an automated way to extract data from Primo Analytics the usefulness of Primo Analytics is greatly reduced.
We need the ability to extract data from Primo Analytics reports via an API so we can use this data in other ways. Such as importing into other reporting systems (databases, BI tools, etc.. ), merging with out Library/University data/reports, etc..
Any new ExLibris product should provide an API as a standard, from initial release.
Cheers
Justin Kelly
Swinburne17 votesWe are glad to inform you that this idea was released in May 2016 Release.
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Keep search preferences between searches
We find it annoying that facet selections made in a search are lost when a new search is run. (In both Advanced and basic searches)
So for example if I select a library location or if I expand my results for one search, these settings are lost if I change my search terms.
We would like the selections to stay but with an easy way to clear them if desired.
28 votesThank you for posting this idea, this was delivered as a NERS enhancement “Make facets sticky by default”.
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Add "modify search" option to retain facets/filters
Facets used to refine searches must be re-selected if the search keywords are modified. It would help to offer the ability to modify a search while retaining the selected facets.
42 votesPrimo allows users to make active facets persistent for an entire session,
For More details refer to https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/030Highlights/027Primo_August_2017_Highlights#Sticky_Facets
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Remove "Add to e Shelf" from copied text
Users often copy and paste titles of works from Primo brief search results, to use in other searches or documents. The user selects the hyperlinked title text and copies. When it is pasted, the phrase "Add to e Shelf" is added in front of the title, even though it doesn't appear in the brief search results. This is very confusing to patrons, who frequently don't notice this sneaky addition to their copied text and wonder why their new search is "not found". We would love to see this phrase removed from the copied text.
15 votesavailable with the new Primo UI in August release
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Display of earlier editions in 'View x versions' feature instead of latest ones
Unfortunately, and I've noticed this with other titles in Primo, e.g. Begg Economics, the latest editions of titles are hidden in the 'View x versions' area of Primo while the earliest edition is displayed in the search results. It would be better perhaps if the latest edition displayed with the option to view earlier editions under the 'View x versions' feature.
63 votesThank you for this suggestion, this was released in Primo VE May release and planned as part Primo August 2020 release.
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BibTeX export
Primo only offers one export file format for bibliographies: RIS
Unfortunately not all citation management tools directly support this file format. The users have to use conversion tools.
Therefore please add the very popular BibTeX export file format.52 votesI’m happy to announce that we added this functionality as part of Primo May release
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Offer library-controlled "Looking for...?" suggestions
When a user is searching for a common title but not necessarily easily found, like "Wall Street Journal," we want to offer a highlighted link, "Looking for the Wall Street Journal" that goes to the destination of our choice, which in this case would be the WSJ online database. We have many records for WSJ different editions etc. and it can be challenging for the user to find the "primary" one.
72 votesThank you for this great idea. we are pleased to announce that this functionality is implemented in Primo as part of the Resource Recommender.
Recently we have enhanced it: allowing suggested resources to be returned through the enrichment of searchable tags by adding synonyms, inflections and more.Please refer to knowledge center for more information
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Improve Primo Alerts format
Customers should have the abilty to modify and change the format of the alerts sent to the users, both the text and the visibililty of the email.
111 votesThank you for this idea, In the recent release Primo and Primo VE offers improved format out for the box for the Saved Searches Alert email with option to customize it (in Primo using mapping table , in Primo VE using the Alma Letters Configuration )
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Add send to Mendeley
Add a configurable option to send items to Mendeley reference manager.
23 votesThis was released in Primo August 2019 and will be released in Primo VE in Q4 of 2019
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Find Databases in Primo without Metalib
Primo shall provide an Out-Of-The-Box A-Z databases list that references data from the ILS as an alternative to the current Primo find Databases function that relies on MetaLib,
143 votesThe Database Search in the new interface supports now the ability of Browse Databases by Category.
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Adding link to MARC record from the Primo user interface
The user shall be able to view the MARC record from the Primo user interface.
Once the user selects specific record, he shall be able to view the MARC record from the Primo user interface.46 votesWe are glad to inform you that we added this feature as part of Primo February release
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Add sort order in e-shelf
User shall be able to sort his eShelf lists based of the folowing field: title, upadted date, author
103 votes
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