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More contact options for "person" in Resource Recommender
Right now in the Resource Recommender, the only 'contact' option for a 'person' is e-mail. We would like more options, possibly including:
URL - This is important because maybe they have a profile page that has more information, for example, in LibGuides. Would also open up the possibility to include a URL that takes the user to a form to request an appointment
Phone number
Hours - Because we're not necessarily able to respond at all hours.
16 votes -
Add an Abstract resource type for the Primo Central Index
Primo Central Index contains many records for abstracts of conference papers that have been published in journal issues/supplements.
These records are given the Article resource type in Primo. This confuses users, who when they find these items expect a full-length article instead of a short abstract.
It also creates problems with link resolvers, which attempt to generate article-level links and fail (publishers usually do not provide these abstracts as individual articles).
To fix this, Primo Central should be given a new resource type for abstracts.
The sources for these records are usually large indexes such as Scopus or Web of…
168 votes -
Primo Central Index ( PCI ) - more granularity in excluding content from activated resources - e.g. exclude from index by resource type
Right now in Primo Central Index the customer can either activate or not a resource. But sometimes more granularity would be appreciated. Namely adding a filter by resource type allowing inclusion or exclusion in the index would be very useful. Please note: it's not a matter of adding a resource type in PCI. It's a matter of excluding records with a specific resource type from activated resources.
For example, some resources/data sources contains not only articles, but also journals and other resource types we actually catalogue. Since right now dedup does not work between local records and PCI, this ends…
103 votes -
Embargoed resources displaying in Primo
Currently records from within an embargo period are discover-able to end-users via Primo.
The user then thinks we have access to the records and selects it only to be presented with No full text available.
Embargoed records are outside of our coverage range and should not display in our discovery interface.60 votes -
Number of location codes that can be included in a scope.
Scopes currently allow only 3 location codes. We would like to have that limit increased.
4 votes -
[Primo] - frbr - improve algorythm - consider all keys and not only the first matching key
In Primo FRBR documentation is explained that (I added ** signs):
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In the FRBRization process, the keys are compared. If a record has a matching key with another record, it is added to the same FRBR group. Once a match is found, the system does not continue searching for matches since a record can belong to one FRBR group only.
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In our experience this may lead to false positives. When comparing keys between frbr candidates, the system should consider instead the whole set of matching keys, not just the first matching one. And for example do not group…118 votes -
Search with 'OR' using DeepLinks
Query params in a deep-search are correlated with "AND" by default. It is not possible to correlate two query params of a deep link with a boolean OR.
This feature could be very useful, for instance if you want to search for an author including variant spelling (think of Primo Central Index). Or to query multiply keywords via a single Deep Link.
4 votes -
Give us a way to brute force boosting any record in Alma with a local field
We have to break the rules of cataloging to add fields to get certain important titles that should ALWAYS be first in a relevance sort to show up at the top. Give us a local field to use in a bib record to always ensure a boost to the top (similar to what we can do to "top" a particular collection to offer in direct linking).
6 votes -
[Primo] - allow to set up a default view, i.e. the landing view for the user when view ID is missing or mistyped
Right now the 'default' view in Primo is the 'out of the box' view, named 'default', which is normally used as template by user for creating the View actually in use. And that's fine.
But the customer should be allowed to define which view sahll be used as default View in the Primo instance. Current feature "Session timeout URL" is not enough.
- In case for example of mistyping the URL, the system leads to the 'default/otb' view.
- If a View is deleted but a user has a bookmark, again the system leads to the 'default/otb' view.It should…
8 votes -
Ensure a title level general hold request only activates a request on the relevant holdings and campus for correctly affilated patrons.
This crosses Alma and Primo but it surfaces as an issue for us mostly in Primo.
Currently general hold requests are not checked against terms of use. So Primo/Alma applies the request to all holdings regardless of whether the patron can borrow the item or not.
As an institution with two distinct campuses (NHS and University) we have issues with requests where some of the holdings have no items attached.
For example we have a journal that has holdings at several libraries at both the NHS and Cardiff University campuses. Some of these holdings do not have any items attached.…6 votes -
Modify Primo display to use standard MARC holdings.
We're migrating well-formed MARC holdings with 85x/86x pairs but Primo cannot use them for generating displays. Instead Alma must run a job to copy that data into 866 fields for Primo to be able to display them. Primo displays should make use of standard MARC fields/subfields (our 15 year old current system's public interface can do this)
22 votes -
Activation request for "Films on Demand"
When searching the Community Zone there is a record for Films on Demand (Humanities and Social Sciences Video Collection), but there are no portfolios (titles) attached to it. It's just a brief bib record.
We'd like to request an activated record (with items attached) for Films on Demand.
14 votes -
Add the option to restrict PCI results for resources when only a physical manifestation of those resources exist in the library’s inventory
If we have a physical book/journal in stock (item status could be anything: lost / on loan / available etc.)
and we have PCI collections activated that happen to also include these titles,
then
Primo will display the PCI results for the electronic version of these Books + their chapters & Journals + their articles and present them as ‘Full text available’ with ‘View online’ tabs – even when we do not have access to the online version of the titles.This leads to an error message + makes for a confusing experience for staff and students. We understand from…
23 votes -
Check for physical copies between data sources
Currently records harvested from local sources (e.g. Dspace) can not crosswalk to records from Alma. This means that a patron who finds a record from dspace for a dissertation can not determine if the dissertation is held as a physical copy using the find it tab in Primo.
For example, see http://searchit.lib.ksu.edu/KSUD:Entire_Library_Collection:01KSU_DSPACE2097/18531
The view it tab works, but the Check for Physical Copy times out because Primo's code is not set up to support checking for physical copies from sources other than Primo Central.
I request that the code be enhanced to support this discoverability.
6 votes -
Untick the box "specific edition only" on the resource sharing form
On our user's resource sharing form, the box "specific edition only" is automatically ticked.
It's not efficient and helpful because almost nobody untick this box. And when we search the book and don't find the "right" edition, we don't know if the tick is desired or just by default.
So each time we meet this situation, we have to contact our user and it's a waste of time.If the box "specific edition only" is untick at the beginning, we know that we could trust in.
3 votes -
Total number of records in PCI
In Summon, one can leave the search box blank and press enter. The result page will indicate the number of total records in the central index and the Resource Type facet also provide a breakdown of record numbers by material type. It allows institutions to track the growth of their content and their distribution by format. It will be great the Primo can offer such statistics.
4 votes -
Include an option to set Primo Alert for specific latest issue of a Journal TOC (table of content)
Include an option in Primo Alert for specific latest issue of a Journal TOC (table of content) as in the case of Ebscohost Alert Notification attached.
7 votes -
Improve Author Name Normalization for PCI Facets
Frequently, we encounter different facet values for the same author in PCI search results. For instance, there are some PNX records in PCI with creatorcontrib facet values of "Shakespeare, William" and some with "William Shakespeare". The problem is exacerbated when results are blended with local records.
Ideally, the name forms should be more consistent and match Primo's out-of-the box normalization rules for MARC records.
We realize this is a difficult problem to solve when ingesting metadata from disparate sources, but we believe it could be better.
14 votes -
PCI Collection List in a .csv or similiar format
It would be great to have the PCI Collection List in .csv or similar format. It's time consuming to convert it to a format that is usable. It would be great to be able to easily deduplicate with the PCI Activations export and compare from version to version so we can easily see what collections have been added to the PCI without having to spend hours eyeballing or converting the document.
7 votes -
Library Stack added
To add Library Stack to your indexing so results will populate in Primo.
10 votes
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