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Add library location to advanced search options
There is currently no way to do a search by location in Primo VE, where a user can choose to search a specific location by selecting one from a pre-populated drop-down menu. Please add this to the Advanced Search options.
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Primo smartphone inhabilitar bajada de archivos
El material digital visualizado en Primo a través de smartphone permite bajar y copiar los archivos. Sería necesario para proteger derechos de autor inhabilitando esta opción.
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Allow custom scopes for CDI records, for an "articles only" drop-down search profile
Currently, custom scopes that allow for setting conditions include only local data from Alma, and do not include any CDI records, even if blended with CDI. This means it is not possible to create a search profile with a custom data scope of with "Resource type: articles". Instead, in order to limit a search to only articles, the user must use the facets on the left-hand side of the page. I think this is a common search parameter that should ideally be available in the drop-down menu to the right of the search bar.
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The BibTex export from Primo does not include the DOI. Would it be possible to add the doi field? I know doi isn't a standard field in Bib
Include the DOI in the BibTex export from Primo
Would it be possible to add the doi field? I know doi isn't a standard field in BibTex, however it would be very useful and is requested by our users.
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300a (total number of pages) should put in PNX for exporting RIS/Mendeley.
Currently, Primo VE does not export total number of pages of books, which is nessesary for some styles, to RIS and Mendeley. We opened a case and asked Support to fix this, and got the answer following.
”The Product Management team has discussed this further and consider this is an enhancement request. A possible solution is to set a new rule to take, for books only, the pages information from 300a and include it in the PNX addata/pages field."
We thought the total number of pages should be included in PNX. Please support this idea.
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Integrate Retraction Watch data into CDI article records
We would like to see metadata on retracted articles incorporated to CDI/Primo from the Retraction Watch database (https://retractionwatch.com). While some CDI records indicate in titles that the articles have been retracted, not all do -- this appears to be provider-dependent. Adding a metadata element to indicate retracted status would make it possible to flag retracted articles visibly and consistently, and to create a facet/filter for retracted articles.
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Ignore 022z when linking to physical holdings
A journal has been accidentally misprinted another journal’s ISSN once and the wrong ISSN is included its bib record in 022z (I believe this description is correct according to MARC21 rules). CDI records of articles with the ISSN in question shows the wrong journal holdings with the ISSN in 022z, because CDI makes a Get It link by not only 022a but also 022z. Because of that, patrons cannot see the correct journal holdings. We think it is necessary to ignore 022z and see only 022a when linking physical holdings.
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Can Primo use a more automated fuzzy matching approach rather than requiring hard-coded alternatives or “did you mean”.
Our users are asking for alternate spellings. If you’re one letter off on a name, it won’t find close alternatives. Did you mean or synonyms will not help with this.
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Send the same enriched query (stemming, synonyms, etc) to both local index and Primo Central PC index ( important for blended search )
As default behavior, Primo not only looks for the patron's query, but according to the guessed language enriches the original keywords of the user with additional terms, in order to improve the performance. Linguistic features ( https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/Technical_Guide/120Linguistic_Features ) may be customized by the systems librarian, for example removing or adding synonyms. But these changes affects only the results coming from the local index (i.e. the index built with records coming from the library's pipes for the catalogue, the institutional repository etc.). Primo Central (PC) records are not affected: for PC records the query enrichment is run separately and using the…
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Acquire SpringShare and integrate LibGuides functionality into Primo UI.
LibGuides and the other SpringShare components provide supplemental functionality for many libraries. Many Primo customers are pointing to LibGuides for things like Database Search/A-Z, content management, and subject guides. Acquiring that resource would allow Ex Libris to incorporate the product into Primo and would allow Ex Libris to integrate the product into the secure architecture and FedRAMP approved architecture.
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Offer phone view to low-end devices
On mid-tier devices, such as a low-end laptop or a Surface Pro, Primo is very slow to respond, and quickly pegs the CPU doing trivial tasks such as simply scrolling the page. After doing some benchmarking on an Android phone, we discovered that some of the performance issues can be mitigated by rendering the phone view. I request that the more efficient phone view be available to lower-end devices.
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ahead of print
More appropriate link resolving for "Ahead of Print" (pre-publish) articles.
We recently had a report of problem linking for an "Ahead of Print" Primo article result. In this instance, linking resolved to an incorrect article - since it matched by keyword search at the journal.
If better metadata cannot be obtained for "Ahead of print" articles, and these are not formally published articles, perhaps these results should not be included for Primo results -- or be able to be pulled into results in a separate facet?
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Resource Recommender: "truncation", "starts with" and "part of" tags
Enable more functionalityfor tags. Currently we have a database for laws. Nobody search for law, laws etc. We want the option to make the database searchable with tags like "law of; "law for" "comonlaw" etc. I cant put in all the laws and synonyms as tags.
So it would good for users to get a match on all those things.19 votes -
Include Local collections in Collection Facet
Primo with PCI and CDI do not show Local Collection names in the Collection Facet. This is a disservice to our locally loaded collections. The way this facet is currently configured, it only relates with metadata fields on CDI records and will not show local collections.
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Add Next and Previous arrows to Digital Collections
Add Next and Previous arrows to Details pages in Digital Collections and, ideally, to image viewers so that users don't have to click back to the collection thumbnails after viewing each collection item/image.
This could work the same way as the Next and Previous arrows in the Primo Details page for search results.
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Browse shelf only to display electronic material
Nowadays, browse Shelf Configuration dialog box, can be configurated with one of the following options:
- Browse Bibliographic Headings – if you want to display both physical and electronic material in Browse Shelf.
- Browse Shelf Listing – if you want to display physical items only in Browse Shelf. This is the default option.I ask for a new option to display only electronic material, this is useful for those libraries that not use a standard classification system being that the physical browse shelf is a disaster.
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Registros OA en Primo VE
Actualmente Primo VE muestra registros como OA cuando los mismos refieren a enlaces de recursos suscriptos por la biblioteca.
Una solución podría ser la de eliminar el icono de OA, pero este cambio aplica para todos los registros, incluyendo los que efectivamente enlazan con recursos de OA, de momento no es posible modificar un registro en particular o un conjunto.
Esperamos que se pueda solucionar este problema y que los registros que enlazan a recursos suscriptos no muestren el icono de OA.
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New records facet according to Inventary record
Primo VE facet for New records (last month, last week) retrieves records according to the bibliographic record creation date.
The problem in some institutions is it takes an average of one month from when the record is created until it is available to the user, therefore, the new records that are available in the last week for the user appear under the last month facet or even, sometimes, in the last three months.We ask for theese facets take into account the Inventory Date instead of the Bibliographic Record Creation Date
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Show unnormalized facet Academic Department in PRIMO VE
We want the PRIMO VE shows the Facet as an unnormalized text as we see in ALMA.
It only displays the initial letter of each word in uppercase and removes hyphens and other punctuation marks.
For example in ALMA we see a Academic department "FCS- Nutrició" and in the Primo VE now we see as "Fcs Nutrició"
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Configure new searches to automatically exclude facets from result list (2022)
As a user, I want to configure Primo to automatically exclude certain facets from search results so patrons do not have to exclude the item with every new search
The solution would be configurable.
The default configuration would have no exclusions defined.Using Resource Type: Reviews as an example:
- The institution uses the solution to exclude Resource Type: Reviews.
- The solution adds [facet=rtype,exclude,reviews] to the query. The behavior would be the same as if the user clicked the Exclude button next to the resource type: reviews.
- Users would be able to modify their filters like usual.
Query without configuration:
/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Carrots&tab=Everything&search_scope=Everything&vid=[institution…19 votes
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