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Primo VE: subject searching with hyphens
When I click on a subject heading in a record in Primo VE (https://catalog.library.vanderbilt.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991029907089703276&context=L&vid=01VAN_INST:DIVINITY&search_scope=MyInstitution&tab=LibraryCatalog&lang=en), Primo VE does an exact subject search and gets no results, not even the record on which I clicked the subject heading. This only happens with some subject headings, not all. An example: the subject heading Self immolation -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism gives zero results (not even the record which contains the subject link I'm clicking on shows up, nor any other records with that subject heading -- 2 others); while the subject heading Buddhism -- China -- Customs and practices seems fine.…
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Incorrect citation formatting
Below is an email that I got from one of our reference librarians:
Here’s a citation issue, we’re coping with.
I expect you can’t fix this because it looks like a broad indexing issue, but can it be reported?PROBLEM ONE (this affects MLA & APA & Chicago)
The Primo citations often include extra information, for example:
-- that it is a “report” or includes an “author abstract” or “Brief Article”
In these cases, it looks like it stems from Primo including too much info in the title field.PROBLEM TWO (this affects only MLA)
Primo citations often include not…2 votesHello All,
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Add ability for Local Resource Types to look at multiple fields
For some resource types (like streaming video) where we use community zone records that aren't all RDA, the bibs are missing a consistent way for me to identify them and we can't update the records to add whatever field is necessary (like a 655 $a Internet videos.). I would like to be able to write a rule for local resource types that uses an OR statement, rather than just a single field. That way I could indicate that if it had the 655 OR a 347 $a Video file it should have Streaming Video as its resource type.
10 votesHello All,
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Primo VE: Availability of print inventory with multiple holdings
In Primo VE, when availability is calculated for print inventory with holdings in multiple libraries, please show the library with the most items first.
For example if there are 25 items in the Main Library and 3 items in the Law Library, Primo should display “Available at Main Library… and other locations”.
Primo should not display “Available at Law Library… and other locations.”Thank you.
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Number of items excluding EBSCO would be shown in PCI facet
When I set a mixed search of Primo PCI and EBSCO API on Primo VE, facet doesn't display number of items of each facet and the sort of facet is out of control. I have heard that this is due to the specification of the EBSCO API. I think that if it is impossible to show the number of EBSCO results, as a second solution, only the number of PCI results, excluding EBSCO, should be displayed.
1 voteHello All,
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HAL : issue about "full text access" link
HAL https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ is one of the major open repository in French.
Some publications give full text access, others not. See screenshot attached.
We did activate for search Hyper Article en Ligne (HAL) in PCI.
Our concern is that all HAL publications in PRIMO display with "full text access" link even when there is no full text.Please have a look to the example : Reconceptualizing the classification of PNAS articles.
This issue generates lots of complains from our final users. HAL is very well used in French speaking countries.so could you fix this and indicate "full text access" when…
30 votesHello All,
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Include Course Information with Coures Icon in brief record display
We would like the option to include the Course Information (from the full record) with the Course icon for the breif record display for course reserves. This way students can quickly see the information without having to open the record.
1 voteHello All,
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Allow more than four fields to display in the Brief Record Display
Please allow more than 4 fields to display in the brief record display. We would like Course Informaton to display for our Course Reserves. Why is there a limit? We should be able to add as many fields as we would like to the brief record display.
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My Library Card: Indicate number of loans at each library
Listed in the left margin of the My Library Card page in our multi-campus / multi-library environment are the names of each library from which a user has requested or borrowed an item. To save the user time in finding relevant, timely information, we'd like the number of items currently "in play" (on loan, requested, with associated fines, etc.) displayed next to each library in that list.
2 votesHello All,
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short loan
Display due times for short loans in Primo, using the time format specified in Alma, rather than defaulting to showing due times in military (24h) time.
1 voteHello All,
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Add Course Reserve Public Notes to Primo VE record details display
A proscribed set of Course Information can be displayed in the Primo VE record details, but there is no way to add other notes or information related to course reserve in Primo VE, as there is in Leganto. There is a Public Notes field in Alma's Reading List > Citation > Citation Parameters settings, but this note can only be displayed in Leganto. If the Public Note could be made available for display in the Primo VE record as well it could be used in conjunction with the Course Information display to provide important information to end users -- for…
1 voteHello All,
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ORCID to be searchable in Primo VE
I'd like to add ORCID to our catalog records, at least for our ETDs (thesis authors and their advisors), and to have the IDs being searchable in Primo VE.
22 votesHello All,
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Search Loans within user Account
We have users who would like to be able to search within their list of currently checked out items. At present, the only options are (1) export the list of loans to BibTeX or RIS and search them in another program, or (2) sort by checkout date or title. When faculty have 400 items checked out, neither of these options is feasible. They would like a search box option within their account to search across all the items they have checked out.
2 votesHello All,
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Add spacing between multiple entries of same marc field
Often, and especially in archival description, we use the same marc fields several times in the same record. So, more than 1 520 (description/scope&content) or more than 1 545 (bio/hist note) and many others.
The current display in primo ve kinda "smooshes" them all together. Would be great for readability if there was at least a space between multiple entries of the same field in any given record. Attachment has example in primo ve and one in - believe it or not - digitool, where there are extra spaces between each of the repeated fields. Much easier to read.
2 votesHello All,
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Improve the browse callnumber functionality in Primo VE to include Moys callnumbers
As a Primo VE law academic or student I would like the Moys callnumbers to be browsable in Primo VE. They are a special classification suited to my subject area. This functionality was previously available.
Background
Moys call numbers are not supported in Primo VE, even though they display in the Alma Browse functionality.Primo NUI did display them correctly.
Having invested considerable resourcing in developing Moys classification for our Law collections it is frustrating that we are no longer able to browse these callnumbers.
15 votesHello All,
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Contextual Relationships - chapters
- Only display chapters for the volume being viewed, i.e. chapters from vol. 2 of the Cambridge Ancient History rather than chapters from all the volumes (230 in all!)
- Display chapters in page number order ( we can’t figure out the logic behind the current order of display)
- For multi-volume titles, a “other volumes in this title” link in addition to other chapters from the same volume
2 votesHello All,
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Make user-created tags keyword searchable.
Currently, user-created tags are findable via the tag portal in the Ellipsis, or they can be searched in the Advanced Search by specifying the tag field. We would like to be able to make them keyword searchable in the basic search.
3 votesHello All,
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PrimoVE : Allow splitting Dublin Core Fields
As we have set up Discovery import profiles to import Dublin Core data from other institutions into our PrimoVE instance, we have discovered a few institutions that concatenate the DC:CREATOR and DC:SUBJECT fields into a single field.
The ability to split these fields in normalization would be extremely useful in the Primo environment.
4 votesHello All,
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Browse by government document call number
Currently, we don't have the option of browsing call numbers in the 086 field in Primo VE. This is a problem for the many libraries who work with government documents and use government documents call number schemes. Being able to search for single call numbers doesn't help for tasks where you need a list ordered by call numbers (like taking inventory, weeding, and assigning new call numbers). Please add a government documents call number browse index.
14 votesHello All,
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Provide an option for users to see all items in an electronic collection
Alma allows us to make the bib record for an electronic collection like Wiley e-Books viewable by customers in Primo. We would like the contents of the electronic collection to be displayed when the user clicks on the electronic collection name in Primo.
5 votesHello All,
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