Title search be split to differentiate between article title and publication title
Whilst doing a title search the results are often skewed by publication titles being included in the results lists.
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Athena Hoeppner
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I heartily support this idea. Faculty often tell students to find articles on a topic that are from a select set of pre-approved journals. Primo VE offers no user friendly approach to search for a articles within more that one specified journal. The email below from a frustrated librarian illustrates the need:
"I had this student earlier looking for articles on a topic, but the assignment says they can only use articles from a specific list of journals. 22 to be exact. I thought it might be easiest to search in Primo then go under Journal Title and take out the irrelevant titles (note: almost every one has the word “counseling” in the title so I thought it would be easy).
1. I have a list of 22 Counseling journals, and when I searched for HOMELESSNESS and MENTAL HEALTH in Material Type=Articles (start data 01/01/2017), I got 17,325 results, and none of those top 10 were on her list and I have no option to dive into the full results.
2. Under Any Field in Primo advanced search, there is no journal (source) title option, only “Title”. Does that search in the title of journals as well? How do we search if we want a topic in a single journal that we have the title for?
3. Decided to test it, putting “Title Contains Counseling” got a better list, with all Journal titles that contained “Counseling” as well as article titles. That’s not what I expected it to do.
4. In the list of 10 journals, only 4 were from her list and I had no option to narrow the other results by journal.
5. Of the various ways to Sort a results list, sort by source title is NOT one.
6. So I took out Any field contains Counseling and replaced it with "Adultspan Journal" OR "Counseling and Values" OR "Journal of Employment Counseling" OR "Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling" OR "Journal of Mental Health Counseling" and got 54 results
7. The only way I can narrow this down to mostly her titles is to go through the top 10 list and EXCLUDE the journals she’s not using, hit apply, then it reloads with the new top 10 list. I go through and exclude the unwanted journals, and apply again, and so on. Is there a better way?
Thanks for your attention on this. It’s the first time I’ve really seen that there is distinction between journal or article titles on Primo."