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full text
Currently "full text" is limited to first 65K characters of an article or of a complete [!] book (along with chapter abstracts only) from CDI, or even less from Alma, and not from all sources (e.g., not from JSTOR). Thus tweak results to full text is misleading. For articles, entering from google scholar may circumvent the problem partially. For books, true research now requires search full text (possibly not available or only available in snippet view) in google books for finding the required source and pages, then searching the discovery for the book for electronic access, similar to finding a…
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Display only the last entered Date Range facet
When a person refines a date a second time in Primo, Primo simply displays an additional date facet in the Active Filters area. For example, a person initially filters a search to Years: 1919-2025 and then decides to filter again by Years: 2024-2025. Instead of removing the first date facet and replacing it with the second, Primo simply adds the second facet underneath the first facet. This does not make sense and presents a usability problem for the end user. In all other cases, when two facets are used within the same category, they are to be regarded as having…
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Sort by date for Primo favourites - option to change sort order (newest / oldest)
We would like to be able to change the sort order (newest / oldest) when sorting by date in Primo favourites.
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Suppress blank yellow box in "View It" section
Currently, when there are no online access links in the "View It" section on the full details page, a blank yellow box appears. Can this be suppressed when there are no links to display?
We receive numerous problem reports each year from students who are confused. Thank you!
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PressReader
PressReader uses Webhook functionality to enable direct search of its content within Primo VE.
In Brief Search Results the link displays as "check for available services'. This is not configurable (Salesforce #07245690).
In the Full Record Screen the default text 'Link to Resource' is used.
This is sourced from Links and General Electronic Services Labels.
Can there please be a separate label, created specifically for PressReader, with text configurable by the library?
Screenshots attached
Thank you!
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opensearch description support in Primo VE
Primo supports opensearch description allowing a better integration with modern browser but this functionality is no longer support in Primo VE. It would be very useful for users to be able to continue to integrate the search engine with browser.
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Make alternative text for book covers and icons in results more meaningful
To improve accessibility for users of screen readers, please enhance the alternative text for images in Primo search results. In the brief results list, each image in the results has "Image 1", "Image 2", etc. as alt text. The cover in the full display has "Image" as the alt text. I saw in the Primo Accessibility Roadmap https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Materials/Primo_Accessibility/Primo_Accessibility_Roadmap
that Alternative Text is a checkpoint on the road map (1.1.1.a), but Ex Libris Tech Support said that checkpoint does not include these images.3 votes -
Include eBooks in Browse by Call Number Search
I would love to see eBooks (that have call numbers, of course) included in Browse by Call Number search results – or have a way to toggle their inclusion/exclusion in results. We spend a fortune on eBooks but they're excluded from this search. It seems many of our eBooks have a call number as they appear in the shelf carousel on item records.
A keyword search is enough to bring up resources for typical undergraduate assignments, but many faculty want their students to know about the information landscape of their area/field that call numbers provide. This is unquestionably important for…
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Option to specify different price categories in the Request Sharing form
Depending on where the library can obtain a document ordered by interlibrary loan, our patrons have to pay different fees (price categories in our case: 1. from Swiss libraries, 2. from Europe, 3. from overseas). Our patrons should be able to specify in the ILL form up to which category they are willing to pay the costs. Unfortunately, in Primo VE it is only possible to display the field “Maximum fee”, in which patrons can enter any amount they wish. In our experience, customers do not understand the meaning of this field and do not know what to enter there,…
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Display "to present" for journals with current coverage
Primo displays current journals by displaying only the start date - the "to present" is implied, but we've heard from our users that they are confused by this. Please allow the system to display "to present" for journals with no end date in coverage.
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Add more granular CDI suppress settings per electronic collection
When Ex Libris changed the "Exclude CDI ebooks" setting to allow ebooks from Database type collections through, we ended up with a lot of duplicate ebook records. The only way to fix that is to select "Do not show as Full Text available in CDI even if active in Alma" for each of our ebook collections. However, that suppresses everything from the filtered search, including book chapter records. I'd like the ability to only suppress the CDI ebook records per collection.
I understand the need to allow ebooks from Database type collections through, but we've got to come up with…
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Create scopes/search profiles of Open Access CDI content
We are starting to promote Open Access content and would like to create a view that holds only this content. Alma currently allows you to create custom/local scopes that are associated with being OA. OA information does exist within the CDI, but there isn't a way to filter it into a scope or profile.
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Link to Reading List in Leganto at "More from the same Course" in PrimoVE - allow for the link to possess course code instead of course name
Currently in PrimoVE, when a title is present on a Reading List in Leganto, at the "More from the same Course" area of the title search result, the link to the list in Leganto possesses the name of the course and not the course code, which is more meaningful to our users. It would be great to have the ability to change this information which is not currently available.
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Allow GES to access coverage information to calculate available services for articles
Our library uses GES service availability rules to disable our ILL services request link for articles “when resource is owned by the institution and available.” However, GES interprets a journal as available if we have coverage for any length of time, even if coverage is not available for the article in question. This leads to a number of CDI articles showing “No services available,” as we do not have an available link for access (not having coverage for that particular date/issue), and the ILL link is disabled because the system thinks we have coverage. It would be helpful to have…
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A URL that points to the Primo Research Assistant internal help page
At the moment it is not possible to use a URL to access the internal help page for the Primo Research Assistant because it is handled/resolved by AngularJS.
We would like this help page to be made available via a URL that could be used in other web pages.
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Allow Primo Research Assistant proxy definition to be determined by electronic collection's service
Currently, there is only one proxy definition allowed for the electronic services in Primo Research Assistant, but a one-size-fits-all approach is not sufficient for our needs. Alma allows for multiple proxy definitions to be used with electronic services, as they are configured in each electronic collection's service editor. We currently use 3 different definitions: 1) OpenAthens Redirector, 2) OpenAthens Proxy, and 3) no proxy. Please mirror this functionality in PRA so that we can create the correct links for all of our electronic services.
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search profile slot drag and drop
Like many other Primo VE libraries, we have a single search profile slot (Everything) with a lot of difference search profiles (105 in total). Whenever a new search profile is created, it will be at the bottom and since you can only move item by clicking up & down each times, for libraries that have a lots of profiles, it is a nightmare. Imaging moving just 1 item to the top will take 105 clicks. It would be very helpful if it can be drag & drop instead to change position of an item on the list.
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Add an option to move the "Show more" link above the "Additional Services" link for "Display All Links in Full Display for CDI. "
Current design: Additional services will appear before "Show more" link when "Display All Links in Full Display for CDI ." See the documentation here: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/Primo_VE_(English)/030Primo_VE_User_Interface/Display_All_Links_in_Full_Display_for_CDI.
Suggestion: add an option to change the order of the links,
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Add a language limiter to the Journal Search
Adding a language limiter to the Journal Search in Primo (VE or NDE) would be immensely helpful to students who need to find journals in specific subject areas.
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Improve Primo VE drool editor messaging to display an error if the rules fail
Currently the Primo VE drool editor will not display error messages in some situations where the rules crash and fail.
Instead the Discovery Administrator flows through the process of updates believing that their changes to the rules are correct and have taken effect, only to find perhaps much later after reindexing request that they have not.
Actually what happens is that if the rules fail, there is no error shown, and the entire ruleset fails back to the out-of-the-box rules.
This is a considerable hindrance given the situation of no option to test display rules.Ex Libris advised in a…
3 votes
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