Display Multiple Links in View It for Newspaper Articles in Newspapers Search
The April/May 2022 releases introduced the ability to display multiple links (both Link in Record and Link Resolver) in CDI records in Primo VE and Primo. However, this functionality is not in place for newspaper article records in Newspapers Search results. Newspaper articles in the npsearch interface still display only a single link. We request that the same multiple link display functionality in Search be extended to Newspapers Search. It is very helpful to offer users the option of Link in Record or Link Resolver link, especially for newspaper article content where link reliability and metadata matching may vary greatly.
Nancy Babb
shared this idea
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Nancy Babb
commented
To underscore the impact this has on access, we have indeed discovered that links for some content may never be displayed, in Newspapers Search nor Primo search. If a Link Resolver electronic collection has CDI setting "Yes, Newspapers search only", links for any content that is also held in a Link in Record collection will not be displayed anywhere. The Link Resolver links won't be displayed in Newspapers Search records because they are blocked by the Link in Record links, and the records themselves are not included in Primo Search results, so of course no links there.
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Cindy Bowen
commented
I don't think I fully understood the implications of how Newspaper Search provides links previously. The inclusion of only one link is hugely detrimental to our patrons if there are problems with that one link, either in the linking data or because the platform is having a server issue, as they have no other recourse to obtain the particular article even when we have multiple portfolios available for that newspaper. As an example, a recent newspaper article from the Sydney Morning Herald has only a ProQuest link listed. Pulling up the record for Sydney Morning Herald in our regular search (or Journal Search) reveals we have seven additional linking options across five other platforms in addition to ProQuest, all of which include current article coverage, so the presentation in Newspaper Search is extremely deceptive about the availability of newspaper articles in our holdings.
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Ken Lin
commented
This is a problem with Proquest Historical Newspapers links never being exposed as well.
For example when you are subscribed to both the current Los Angeles Times and Historical Los Angeles Times, you have no control which one you are redirected to when you are only exposed to "Access content in Proquest"