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  1. Show amount of records of a Discover Import Profile

    In Alma it's not possible to use the adv search bar/jobs/analytics to list records from external data sources. We can see the records loaded in the History option of each profile execution. But to have a total, we would need to open one by one.

    Could it be possible to have the amount of records and MMS IDs of each discovery import profile available to see?

    For example, in the same menu list where we see the History, Reload and Delete, etc, add an option called: Total and when we click on it Alma searches for all records of the…

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  2. Allow patron authentication with Openathens or similar

    Allow patron authentication with Openathens or similar

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  3. Create search alerts for results obtained from selecting a "view sources citing this" link from an original article

    Our users would like to be able to track when new citations are added to a list of sources derived from the "view sources citing this" feature.

    They suggest this could be done by creating a search alert to advise them of the changes.

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  4. add a link to the location section

    We would like to be able to create an embedded link to the location section in PRIMO VE (please see image attached)

    This embedded link would then be added to a libguide to provide real time information on the location of the item

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  5. Map location

    When "Location" is selected for an item, open an image of the map within the record instead of a separate window.

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  6. Resource type filter bar: after a search, terms with no hits should be inactive or a counter should be visible

    The resource type filter bar under the search field will remind patrons of Google. Which is good, because they know how that works.

    But: there is no indication in Primo VE that the filters are also visible and clickable if there are no hits behind them.

    Please either add a counter (which would be consistent with the facets in the side column), or deactivate the terms that don't have hits, so that they are not clickable.

    Clicking on something and landing on an empty page is frustrating.

    Example:
    https://basel.swisscovery.org/discovery/search?query=any,contains,filters&tab=UBS&search_scope=UBS&vid=41SLSP_UBS:live&lang=en&offset=0

    -> Book chapters and Music scores have no hits, but the…

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  7. Landolt-Börnstein collection

    Can you please add the Landolt-Börnstein collection since it isn't available in SFX? Our library has the entire collection through Springer Materials. Thank you

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  8. Recuperar en búsqueda avanzada por título el campo 740, desde la opción de Comienza por

    En búsqueda avanzada, por título, con la opción "Título comienza por" recuperamos los campos marc 130 y 245, pero no el campo 740. El campo 740 únicamente se recupera eligiendo la opción "titulo contiene". Solicitamos que el 740 tenga las mismas opciones de recuperación en PrimoVE que los campos 130 y 245.

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  9. Que Primo tenga en cuenta todos los tipos de comillas posibles

    Actualmente sólo el carácter UTF-8 22 (UNICODE 0022) se considera como comilla en las búsquedas Primo. Se trata del carácter ", accesible mediante Mayúsculas-2 en la mayoría de los teclados.
    Pero otros dispositivos y telcados utilizan otros tipos de caracteres, que Primo no tiene en consideración a la hora de ejecutar las búsquedas, y así, cuando se introduce una búsqueda entre comillas, los resultados varían según el dispositivo que utilice cada usuario, porque si Primo no detecta que esos caracteres son comillas, combina las palabras de búsqueda con el operador OR.
    Entendemos que es necesario que Primo tenga en cuenta…

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  10. Include authentication in QR Code link for favourites

    On Primo VE you can generate a QR Code for the page you are viewing.

    If the page is a search the QR Code link works, once scanned the search is replicated.
    If the page is from your account, LibraryCare, My Loans, My Requests, when the code is scanned it invokes authentication.

    However, for Favourites, when the code is scanned it shows a "blank" screen if the user isn't already authenticated on the scanning device.

    I would like to propose that the link generated for Favourites invokes authentication in the same way as pages for Loans, Requests etc,

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  11. New export all function without be logged in

    To use the new “Export ALL results” feature in Primo VE, we've noticed that you need to be logged in.
    we would like to be able to use this feature without being logged in, like the other ways of exporting results.

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  12. Consolidated booking calendar view for patrons in Primo

    Ability for patrons to view all bookable items in a single calendar.

    Our library uses bookings for 9 student student rooms, so students may have to begin 9 separate booking requests before finding an available room. This is a tremendous frustration and waste of their time.

    A consolidated booking calendar should allow students to preview availability of all rooms before attempting to place a request.

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  13. Consolidated booking calendar view for patrons in Primo

    Ability for patrons to view all bookable items in a single calendar.

    Our library uses bookings for 9 student student rooms, so students may have to begin 9 separate booking requests before finding an available room. This is a tremendous frustration and waste of their time.

    A consolidated booking calendar should allow students to preview availability of all rooms before attempting to place a request.

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  14. Prepositions, conjunctions and articles must be written in lowercase in the "Journal Title" facet.

    In Primo in the facets section there is one called "Magazine Title" where prepositions, conjunctions and articles such as "Of", "And", "The" appear with letters in capital letters which is incorrect,

    since they must be shown in lowercase .

    I attach a sample image.

    Thank you.


    En Primo en la sección de facetas hay una llamada "Título de la revista" donde aparecen las preposiciones, conjunciones y artículos como "De", "Y", "La" con letras en mayúsculas, lo cual es incorrecto, pues deben mostrarse en minusculas.

    Anexo una imagen de muestra.

    Gracias.

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  15. Expand Primo VE Browse Search to include dc:subject tags from Discovery Import Profile targets

    The Primo VE Browse Search currently includes only those bibliographic items that are managed within Alma.

    Since Discovery Import Profiles bring external data sources into the Primo VE search index, it would be an improvement to incorporate harvested dc:subject (or similar) fields into the Browse Search.

    Often libraries have collections - especially digital ones - managed outside of Alma, but metadata is brought into Primo VE in order to provide a true all-of-library-collections search. Adding the ability to run a Browse Search across this imported metadata would be a useful feature.

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  16. Research Assistant suggested subjects

    In Research Assistant, it may be beneficial to offer users a list of relevant Primo subjects. Users may go to Primo VE & look excatly for the subjects suggested by the Research Assistant.

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  17. Linked Open Data - Discovery of Person Entity with HKCAN name authorities

    With the Primo VE May 2024 release, an option to enrich our library catalogue with linked open data of person entities is available. We understand that currently this enrichment is only available to personal headings linked to LC name vocabulary. However, in all of JULAC libraries, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean personal headings are mostly linked up with HKCAN name authority vocabulary. So, a vast amount of our records are not enriched with the linked open data. We'd like to propose extending this linked open data enrichment to person entities with HKCAN name authorities. Thank you for considering!

    Salesforce ref. 07228906

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  18. Book Covers en ALMA- Very good service for the user.

    The Spanish Conference of Bookstore Guilds and Associations (CEGAL) has created a functionality on its All Your Books platform with which to automatically include book covers.
    Information that other Integrated Library Management Systems are executing this functionality.
    https://www.baratz.es/todos-tus-libros-nueva-opcion-para-las-portadas-automaticas-en-absysnet/

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  19. Enable more fields for export to Mendeley, at least the permalink to the record

    It would be very helpful for users if the permalink to the record could be exported to Mendeley.

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  20. Allow Indexing and Display of 788 Field

    Would like for the indexing and display of 788 field in Primo VE.

    The 788 field allows catalogers to make discoverable parallel descriptions in another language https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd788.html and https://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/7xx/788.html

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