Currently, the BibTex data export from the full record review is non-customisable, no changes can be made to how the fields display in the exported data. This differs, for example, from other formats such as RIS and EndNote, which do have a mapping table in the configuration.

The issues we’ve encountered with this are:

1) Some fields have a custom display that we’d like to show on Primo but not in the exported data – e.g. we include author details in the Title display, but it is incorrect for this to show in the BibTex title field

2) Where we have custom resource types on Primo, these are not read at all by BibTex and come up as “@unknown”entry types

The lack of mapping options for this feature is causing significant issues for our users who need to use this referencing platform for their course. At our institution this includes Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics students, with one academic estimating that it could impact circa 650 students for the modules he is responsible for alone.

Any workarounds for it are limited and would involve fundamental changes to configuration in Primo VE, such as stopping using custom resource types at all.

It would be massively beneficial if we could define a custom mapping for this export, such as being able to map our own resource types onto the BibTex entry types, or control how each BibTex field is populated using fields in the PNX or Marc.