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  1. Open Access Flag for Open Access Content

    Open Access Content in Primo Central should be marked with an open access flag in the search or the facet section.
    As a result it should be possible to search or filter on open access content regardless of the frontend (Primo or via API).

    94 votes
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  2. Enable actions for loans/requests in My Account

    Right now in Primo, if you have items checked out at your library, you can't do anything with them in the UI. You can't send to RefWorks, email, etc. Users would like to be able to send these items to citation management tools and they currently can’t do that. From the loan list, there is no link back to the full record.

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  3. The "my account" feature in Primo shows other institutions even if no holdings are checked out--these are schools whose holdings have bee

    The "my account" feature in Primo shows other institutions even if no holdings are checked out--these are schools whose holdings have been viewed by the user only. We'd like to ONLY display other schools in this area unless the user has items requested or checked out.

    91 votes
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  4. Change the "Guest" button to a "Sign In" button.

    The new Primo interface has a "Guest" label/button which you have to click to get to a "Sign In" button. This is ridiculous. This confuses a "who you are" label with a login button. There is nothing intuitive about this. Users have to click twice to login.

    90 votes
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  5. Make hyphenated compound searchable as closed compound

    Hyphenated compounds are indexed for search as open compounds in Primo when "remove hyphens" option is enabled.

    In German language it is also very common to concatenate them as closed compounds, thus creating a single word without spaces or hyphens. This variant should be indexed for search as well.

    Example:
    "Passagen-Werk" (hyphenated compound)
    • at the moment also finds "Passagen Werk" (open compound) when "remove hyphens" option is enabled
    • at the moment does not find "Passagenwerk" (closed compound) but should be able to find this!!

    85 votes
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  6. Copy citations to the clipboard in rich text format

    The "citation" tool copies citations to the clipboard in plain text format. Could Primo be modified to allow citations to be copied in rich-text format, in order to preserve the formatting in the citation?

    70 votes
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  7. Collection Discovery: search in all sub-collections

    We would like to allow the user to use the Collection Discovery interface also for discovery. Currently, it is only possible to search at the collection level. It is important to enabling a search across all levels of all collections as the user cannot know in which collection/sub-collections to search for needed items.
    Following are a couple of user stories:
    * We have various collections of photos. We would like to allow the user to search across the various collections and sub-collections for the pictures of the Knossos temple. We have relevant photos in two different sub-collections.
    * We would…

    68 votes
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    Completed  ·  AdminNili Natan (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    We are not providing users option to search across All Collections from the Collection Lobby and also users are being prompt to expand search to all collections from a specific Collection page.

  8. Make persistent search history a user customizable option

    Would like to have this option be at the user level instead of the system level: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Knowledge_Articles/How_to_disable_the_option_to_save_authenticated_user's_search_history

    I realize users can delete individual searches at anytime, but if they don't want any searches saved there is no way for them to do this. Since this can't be controlled at the individual user level, for privacy concerns we have to disable it at the system level and therefore users who might not have privacy concerns do not get to benefit from the feature.

    65 votes
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  9. BibTeX export

    Primo only offers one export file format for bibliographies: RIS

    Unfortunately not all citation management tools directly support this file format. The users have to use conversion tools.
    Therefore please add the very popular BibTeX export file format.

    52 votes
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    Completed  ·  Yuval Kiselstein responded

    I’m happy to announce that we added this functionality as part of Primo May release

  10. Email results in new interface - records too long and not currently configurable

    With the new UI, the emailing function appears to have been altered from a minimised style that we have in the classic primo to a very full view in the new one.

    • in the Classic UI, indeed, the different formats have been used when user was sending results by email: (a) sending from Brief View or Full View creates a long version of formatted content (b) sending from eShelf creates a brief list of formatted content

    However, in both cases, there is no configuration available as to define which fields should be part of the format, this is currently hardcoded…

    51 votes
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    Completed  ·  AdminNili Natan (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    Thank you for this suggestion. The ability to customize the email is available now in Primo November release and planned for Primo VE in February 2020 release.
    Please read more on the options to customize in “Improved Email Template for Send To Email Action”
    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Release_Notes/2019/001Primo_2019_Release_Notes
    and in https://github.com/ExLibrisGroup/primo-explore-package/blob/master/VIEW_CODE/html/README.md#email-templates

  11. Adding link to MARC record from the Primo user interface

    The user shall be able to view the MARC record from the Primo user interface.
    Once the user selects specific record, he shall be able to view the MARC record from the Primo user interface.

    46 votes
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    Completed  ·  Yuval Kiselstein responded

    We are glad to inform you that we added this feature as part of Primo February release

  12. Add "modify search" option to retain facets/filters

    Facets used to refine searches must be re-selected if the search keywords are modified. It would help to offer the ability to modify a search while retaining the selected facets.

    42 votes
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  13. No way back to original/seed article when using either the new Citations or Cited By buttons

    The pages a user reaches when clicking either the new "Citations" or "Cited By" buttons do not provide any way for user to get back to the original/seed article. Making users rely on the browser's back button is not user-friendly.

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    Completed  ·  Yuval Kiselstein responded

    This functionality is now available as part of the citation trail in the new Primo UI

  14. Add AMA (American Medical Association) as Citation Style

    Currently, the Primo Action functionality allows for APA, Chicago, and MLA citation styles. In order to benefit students of Medicine and Science, we would like to add AMA (American Medical Association) as a possible citation style.

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  15. Allow users to personalize default scope for them

    Option to allow a Primo user to select which scope they prefer to work with when multiple scopes. Two possibilities - allow this to be set for as a saved option for signed-in users only, or allow this to be set as a cookie for guest users and be saved as a cookie on that computer. This could apppear as a "Personalize" selection.

    This will truly empower users - e.g. if they don't want to see Primo Central results most of the time, they will not be hampered by the library's choice of "All" as a default scope. Or if…

    32 votes
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    Completed  ·  AdminNili Natan (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    Thank you for posting this suggestion. The direction we choose to implement to allow users to easily navigate to their recent used scopes, you can find more details in Primo August release notes – Easy Selection of recent used search scopes. this is planned to be released in Primo VE September release .

  16. Keep search preferences between searches

    We find it annoying that facet selections made in a search are lost when a new search is run. (In both Advanced and basic searches)

    So for example if I select a library location or if I expand my results for one search, these settings are lost if I change my search terms.

    We would like the selections to stay but with an easy way to clear them if desired.

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  17. "Give Us Feedback" tool / "Report a problem": separate e-mail addresses

    We have been waiting for this enhancement for a long time:

    Give Us Feedback Tool (NERS "Report a problem for records in Primo") / Primo May 2022 release:
    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Release_Notes/Primo/2022/001Primo_2022_Release_Notes

    Since full-text links in Primo are displayed in different places and come from different sources (Alma "View it" section, CDI - "Link in record", Primo Link section), the "Report a Broken Link" option is of course difficult to implement. The "Report a Broken Link" feature as it was available in SFX (an option directly at each full-text link) would of course be more intuitive for the users, but unfortunately it is…

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  18. Searching in Collection Discovery (New UI)

    Searching within a collection (or across collections) would be extremely beneficial to the user experience.

    This is especially true for digital collections that hold a large number of items, or have significant descriptive metadata in the item record.

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  19. My Favorites: while pinning item, allow user to choose label

    When a user pins an item to My Favorites from the search results or detail view, the item goes to My Favorites without a label. Users would like to choose the label at the time they pin it.

    Otherwise, they have to pin things, then go into My Favorites and go through all the things they just pinned a second time. By this time the user may not recall the specific reason they pinned it. We would like My Favorites to work similar to Pinterest and other similar tools, where the user can assign a tag/label as they are pinning,…

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  20. Update default Chicago/Turabian citation style in Primo to current 17th ed.

    Chicago/Turabian citation style 17th ed. was released in 2017, but only the 16th ed. is available as a citation style. This is one of the most common citation styles in use, and Primo should offer the current version as a default option.

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