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Primo VE item filter by ChronJ item field
In Primo VE, in the Get it section, button "location item filter" we can see and filter the items associated to an specific holding. Sometimes, for example with daily newspapers, there are lots of items associated to a holding.
We have the issue's year codified in chronI field, following ExLibris recommendations, month in chronJ field and day of the month in ChronK field.If users want to reach, say, an issue dated July 16th, they should select the corresponding year and Primo VE loads the first ten issues of the year, starting in January. Now, user should be clicking many…
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Resource Type Filter Bar buttons: users expect them to unclick if they change the search scope dropdown
Users raised that they would like the Resource Type Filter Bar buttons to reset themselves to "All" when they repeat their search in a different dropdown scope.
This is especially relevant when the new combination of search scope and resource type doesn't give any hits, e.g. searching the print catalogue scope with the button clicked to see only electronic articles.
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Can Note be added to the list of field search options in Advanced Search in Primo?
Adding Note to the field search options filter would enable patrons to more effectively search for titles. For example, someone searching for materials in languages not currently available for limiting searches could select Note and write Text in Tagalog or similar to refine their search. Keyword searching does this, but the results lack context and are much less helpful.
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Using FRBR local key to force certain similar records to FRBR in a group
When having records with the same title (245 a) and also very similar subtitles (245 b) or section titles (245 p) or section numbers (245 n) you may want to FRBR them (and no others) in certain (sub)groups by using FRBR local key.
Examples:
In one group:245 a Sveriges rikes lag p Processrätt I
245 a Sveriges rikes lag. n 3, p Processrätt I
245 a Sveriges rikes lag. n 4, p Processrätt IAnd these in another group:
245 a Sveriges rikes lag p Processrätt II
245 a Sveriges rikes lag. n 3, p Processrätt II
245 a…1 vote -
Articles not yet made available
I would love to see some regulations or procedure set in place for articles not yet published from being published in primo. I understand this is a vastly complex issue but curious if anyone else has had these issues as well.
Per Ex Libris
Ex Libris's goal is to reflect the provider’s content and metadata and cannot directly make changes in our databases without the provider making these changes. If the provider has sent us a record for an article that is not yet published, or not yet assigned to a specific volume/issue, you will see it as a search…1 vote -
Change newspaper indexing from weekly to daily
The CDI indexes newspaper content, like Proquest Newsstream, once a week. We would like to see newspaper specific content, that have daily issues updated in Primo on a daily basis. Patrons conducting newspaper searches in Primo report missing content, but need to redirect them to the individual databases for daily news.
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Make "Subject is(exact)" a precision search that returns results based on exact subjects
Currently in legacy Primo, a Subject is(exact) search returns items that do not have the specified terms in the visible records, but returns matches from the CDI metadata that is not presented in the record. For clarity of functionality, returning only results that include the specified terms would be preferable. (Similar to NERS 8871 which was focused on the Title fields.)
(An alternative would be to increase transparency of results so that the CDI metadata that constitutes a match is visible to end users.)
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Add ability to display item status in locations list in Get It section
Currently, the locations list displays a holdings summary for each location. To view the status of held items, users must click into each location's details. It would streamline the user journey if the item status (item in place, on loan, on order, etc.) could be displayed within the locations list itself, in addition to the holdings summary.
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Change CDI handling of Language data for Primo
CDI Language data in handled in ways which have undesirable impact on patrons in Primo, such as:
• A default language is applied to all records in a CDI feed for use in Primo in the Language field display, search, and facet. This may be done when the CDI provider feed has no record-specific Language information available automatically and the provider has not otherwise advised that all the records are in a specific known language and confirmed that this Language can be applied to the records in CDI
• Records may be allowed to merge into a CDI logical record…1 vote -
Primo default language
When opening discovery, the language showed is the default one set in the Alma configuration. Many website today are capable to adapt the default language depending on the language set in the browser or the ip adress or other technologies.
The current idea propose to investigate and eventually apply the technologies that allows an automatic adjustment of the primo default language.1 vote -
Adding Facets on Citation Trail in Primo VE
Adding Facets on Citation Trail in order to filter results.
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Collection discovery - have an alert when using unsupported elements such as emoji
Hello,
In Alma Under Add New Collection Fields for Name and Description fields: "Non-text characters such as emojis are not supported."
In fact, they cause a major side effect : the codes are then no longer translated into labels throughout Primo.
I suggest:
- either correcting this dysfunction
- or, if emoji are prohibited (I'm personally not a fan of them for corporate communications), setting up an alert for the user when they attempt to include them in the relevant fields.
Sincerely,1 vote -
Develop web browser bookmarking tool/extension for pre-populating Purchase Request
With the recent development of the Order It tool, we have realised that for our purposes, we would like to have a similar toll available related to Purchase Requests.
Quicker, easier more accurate.
The form would help keep things accurate without giving access to order it to ordering librarians and help us utilise the requester information in the purchase request form (ours is behind a login and restricted to set user group)
The tool would grab and place the metadata from websites such as amazon, waterstones, and our suppliers, place the information into the purchase request form (which for us…
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Allow conditionality/logic toggles for fields in Primo Forms
Description: Currently the Resource Sharing Request form is fixed/non-customisable in the options available, e.g. format everything is available Digital or Print. However, for some circumstances we need to hide the options that don't apply to the request being made (see use case below) Given that conditionality/logic toggle is in the form for the chapter fields, this would is an additional application of the existing functionality in Primo forms, but that we could control.
Use Cases: Where we can only provide a resource type in one way (print or electornic) we want the selection of resource limits the format type appearing…
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Recommendation system for learning and research resources
Academic libraries increasingly act as an ecosystem for learning and research resources. Therefore, they need a platform that can serve as an ecosystem to guide academic users.
Target: Incorporate into Primo VE a recommendation system that, based on users' searches, gives recommendations at the resource level (e.g., article, book, book chapter, case study, image, thesis, etc.).
Output: After the user searches, Primo VE provides a list of prioritized learning or research resources, sorted by their thematic relevance or visualisation-based popularity.
Parameters: The recommendation system should match the query with the users' profile (e.g., career, under|postgraduate level, etc.) after they log…
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Add a Collection title field for Collection Discovery, for full record display and search
Adding records to a collection in Collection Discovery automatically adds them to the out-of-the-box Digital Collections facet in main Primo by the Collections title value.
It would be a significant boost to discovery of these resources both individually and collectively in the main Primo environment if there was also a Collection title field available to be added to the full record display, which could be configured as a lateral hypertext link, and searchable by the collection title as keywords.
This would marry together the main Primo environment with the Collection Discovery environment, with the ability to travel between each to…1 vote -
Add a uniqueness comparison check for local fields in a dedup record, and only display one instance of a non-unique field
It became possible in November 2024 to display instances of a local field from all records in a Dedup record in Primo VE (Configuration > Discovery > Other > Local fields to display from all dedup members).
The feature displays up to 10 instances of a field from records in the dedup group.
This is a useful and welcome development to ensure patrons have access to all the metadata of the work.
However, there is an issue that the data displays regardless if it is exactly the same in multiple records, despite that there is no usefulness for a patron…1 vote -
Consistent display of the "Search Inside" feature for Journal, Magazine, and Newspaper records
Primo VE was developed in 2017 with a "Search Inside" feature, originally appearing only on Journal type records. In 2019 when CDI was developed Newspaper and Magazine types were added to the discovery environment.
Unfortunately It appears that Ex Libris forgot to consider local records holistically, despite that Newspaper is an out-of-the-box configured type for Alma in Primo VE and many of their customers offer a blended search experience for their patrons.
This is evidenced in an inconsistency that Search Inside displays on Newspaper records from CDI and fails to display on Newspaper records for local records. It will also…1 vote -
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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AI based tool for suggesting alternative search queries to users with saved searches and email alerts
I was wondering if there could be an AI based tool for suggesting alternative search queries to users who have saved searches and have set email alerts. When they receive an email alert they could be suggested an AI generated search query (similar to what the AI Research Assistant could elaborate, with synonyms and boolean operators) to be checked for more results.
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