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  1. CDI indexing non-published "articles"

    We are having an issue of posts to the journal/magazine's website being added to our discovery instance as a result of CDI. The linking for these items inevitably fails as the item is not actually part of the journal/magazine and was never published as part of it.

    We would like to ask for such items to be excluded from CDI indexing.

    An example of an article with this problem: https://thediplomat.com/2020/08/was-your-face-mask-made-using-forced-labor-in-china/

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


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  2. Support of CRediT - the Contributors Role Taxonomy within the article and local indexes

    120 journals are now fully supporting this NISO standard (NISO Z39.104-2022) for authorship and roles (https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/credit). We believe this emerging standard will allow additional search functionality for authors who have played different roles within the construction of the scholarly article. Over 50 publishers have adopted this taxonomy across their publications (Elsevier, etc.)

    2 votes
    0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  3. Publish synonym list for hosted non-VE customers in Primo documentation

    It was announced in the Primo mailing lists during August 2021 that the list of synonyms for Primo VE had now been added to the documentation page.

    The equivalent documentation for non-VE Primo customers such as us is at:

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/Primo/Technical_Guide/120Linguistic_Features/040Synonyms#ww1052488

    As hosted customers, however, we still can't see the contents of the synonym files as described, as we don't have that sort of server level access. Therefore we are unable to determine:

    (i) whether the non-VE synonym list bears direct comparison to the VE list,

    (ii) if it does not, where the differences lie.

    Significant staff time is taken up…

    1 vote
    1 comment  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  4. Field for MeSH-terms in CDI bib records to make it possible to search in advanced search

    MeSH-terms, primarily from PubMed, in CDI bib records are mixed with other subjects. Create a subject field for MeSH-terms and make them posisble to search via advanced search.

    21 votes
    0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  5. Add permalinks to Resource Sharing Form

    When a user submits a RS request for an item in Primo, it would be helpful to have a permalink as part of that form. There is a "Source" field, but that isn't helpful in tracking down the original record the user was on. If the metadata in the request doesn't parse into the form correctly (which it sometimes doesn't for less common material types) and the user failed to add more detail, it would be helpful to have the permalink.

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  6. The BibTex export from Primo does not include the DOI. Would it be possible to add the doi field? I know doi isn't a standard field in Bib

    Include the DOI in the BibTex export from Primo

    Would it be possible to add the doi field? I know doi isn't a standard field in BibTex, however it would be very useful and is requested by our users.

    20 votes
    0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  7. Provide system performance metrics

    The Ex Libris Systems Status page only provides simple up/down and planned maintenance information. While this is important, it does not help with other issues, such as slow response time.
    We would like to have access to system performance metrics, including volume of API calls and response time. This could be set up as more detailed information linked from the system status page, or perhaps as reports in the analytics system.

    Although I'm entering this as a primo improvement, it applies to all hosted products.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  8. Deliver more accurate faceting of search results by improved use of PNX metadata

    Can Ex Libris please look into a system whereby one content type can be privileged over another, supporting more accurate faceting of search results.

    BACKGROUND
    We recently discovered a number of CDI records incorrectly displayed the generic TEXT RESOURCE label for journal articles. It seems these records have been supplied by third party suppliers whose policies dictate that their metadata will not be updated, even upon request (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Summon/Content_Corner/Knowledge_Articles/Summon%3A_Fixes_to_Aggregator_Content_Data).

    In many cases the PNX metadata provided indications as to what these really were, even though the allocated resource type was TEXT RESOURCE.
    View search results:
    https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/discovery/search?query=any,contains,asthma&tab=all&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=64VUW_INST:VUWNUI&facet=rtype,include,text_resources&offset=0

    View PNX examples:…

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  9. Fully Index Bloom's Literature

    Fully index Bloom's Literature content so it is discoverable in Primo VE.

    2 votes
    1 comment  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  10. Incluir Miniaturas portadas Primo

    Para mejorar la experiencia para los usuarios , se hace necesario que Primo rescate la mayor parte de las miniaturas de las portadas. De acuerdo a los señalado por la linea de soporte de Primo, este usa el primer ISBN y si dicho ISBN no trae en la metadata de Json el enlace del thumbnail_url, no lo coloca.
    Sería beneficioso para el sistema y para los usuarios que se desarrollara este requerimiento

    10 votes
    5 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  11. Primo smartphone inhabilitar bajada de archivos

    El material digital visualizado en Primo a través de smartphone permite bajar y copiar los archivos. Sería necesario para proteger derechos de autor inhabilitando esta opción.

    20 votes
    4 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  12. Ability to see full bib info in Collection Discovery Resource Editor

    Greetings,

    We are using Collection Discovery to highlight new and significant items in the collection for medical specialties and topics, but the Collection Resource Editor doesn't show the pub date, making it hard to main maintain meaningful and up-to-date title lists. I'm talking about this (see attached). It would be helpful to see the publisher and pub date.

    4 votes
    1 comment  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  13. 776 first indicator and display

    The first indicator for the 776 field specifies whether that field should be displayed or not. I added some 776 fields with a first indicator 1 (do not display note) yet this field is displaying in Primo. I would suggest that when 776 is used with a first indicator 1, this field does not display in Primo as per MARC (see link below)

    https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd776.html

    10 votes
    2 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  14. Different identification system depending on the view

    In our university we have a pending important problem to solve:
    - In order to solve some Primo cases in which the user has to be identified, Exlibris technicians ask us for credentials to be able to analyze and solve the cases but logically, for security reasons, we should not give our personal credentials to anyone.
    - Our user authentication is through SAML so all of our users are external in Alma.

    • The Systems Department of our university requires that in order to create a user in the system (external to Alma), the responsibility for that account must rest with…

    9 votes
    0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  15. showPnx page as XML

    In the classic UI, if you added the parameter showPnx=true, in the address bar, to the URL of a record's full display, you were able to get an XML file with the PNX version of the record. In the NUI, on the contrary, the same parameter takes you to a web page containing the PNX record in a textarea.
    The XML view of the PNX record was very much easier to manage: colouring of tags, open/close section as well as you need them, etc.
    Why did you change this behaviour for worse?
    Could we get back the XML version of…

    4 votes
    1 comment  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  16. Request: Please make it possible to find a match only by a title in Alma linkresolver

    What I want is to make Alma link resolver find matches by a title. Now, Alma linker resolver is returning results only when ISSN/ISBN is given. And, a lot of CJK titles don't have ISSN/ISBN so that there are many occasions when a subscribed CJK portfolio without an identifier is not found in Primo service page. Unlike Alma link resolver, 360 link resolver supports title searching. This is the example of 360 link. The URL below doesn't contain ISSN information either but, it finds the correct match.

    360 Link resolver:
    http://kg6wg8ak8z.scholar.serialssolutions.com/?sid=google&aulast=이영호&atitle=한국학 연구의 동향과'동아시아 한국학'&title=한국학연구&volume=15&date=2006&spage=9

    but, Alma link resolver doesn't find…

    2 votes
    1 comment  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  17. Add Knowledge Unlatched content to PCI

    We would like to see Knowledge Unlatched fully indexed in the PCI to enhance discovery for all of the materials in this Open Access collection.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  18. Dedup process - Create Additional data PNX fied based on prefered record

    In dedup process, all fields from Additional Data section are merged and duplicate fields are removed. This design choice cause some issues with Citation service. When you merge records from differents sources, there is a strong possibility that data are not exactly the same and some data are duplicated. This problem may often be solved by choosing fields from prefered records as it is the case for display section

    4 votes
    0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  19. SRU Barcode

    We would like SRU availability fields to include barcode. Barcode is a useful identifier for items. This addition would allow us to do things like get all the barcodes in a location and do an inventory.

    9 votes
    0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  20. add date/time stamps to indexing & hotswapping sections of Job Details Report

    In the job details reports, where indexing and hotswapping are reported, there is no date/time stamp to indicate how long these portions of the job took to run. It's useful for guesstimating the length of a process before we start it and other sections like FRBR and DeDup include this information

    0 votes
    1 comment  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

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