Allow view configuration to exclude retracted and withdrawn articles from results list
The CDI Document Types labels and facets are valuable information. Now that we have that information, and the Document Types are also facets, can we please get the ability to set our discovery views to exclude these Retracted and Withdrawn articles (similarly to how we have the ability to set a view to exclude CDI ebook records)?
I set up our custom primo search box widget on our library website to exclude these two resource types by default, and I locked those facets so they aren't lost on the next search. You can search the Combined Search box on our library site to try it out: https://www.normandale.edu/current-students/academic-resources/library/index.html
But it's not a good work around. First, any time the user clicks on the New Search link in the menu, the facets are cleared. Second, when a user navigates from a CDI search to a local search (like our book search) or journal search the excluded facets are sticky in those searches too, even though they have no effect in those contexts. Also, by using the facet functionality to exclude these resource types, we are also in effect drawing extra attention to the existence of these unreliable sources in the library's collections.
Although not a preferred solution because they would still be discoverable, I thought about possibly down boosting these two resource types. Currently, CDI document attributes are not boostable.
Lacey M.
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WilliamsWelsh
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Nice suggestion — giving users the option to automatically exclude retracted/withdrawn articles from results list by default would help reduce clutter and improve result quality.