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Embed copyright notice in the resource sharing form to reduce clicks
Can acceptance of the copyright notice be included on the first page of the resource sharing form? Users should be able to enter request information and accept copyright conditions all in one step.
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Direct linking for Digital Objects to have an order in case of several DOs
Currently direct linking for digital objects when there are more than one does not follow any order. Hence, when a record has several D.Os any of them could benefit arbitrarily of the direct linking.
For example, take an English record that is accompanied by several DOs of the document in different languages. The ideal scenario will be to have the English Record and Direct linking to the English D.O. and in the Full Display the options to see other language versions. Currently, the Direct Linking takes any D.O. , which could be confusing to users.
We would like to have…4 votes -
Searchable Training Videos
Enable the content of all training videos to be retrievable when searching the Ex Libris Knowledge Center. This would improve training by making the video content more accessible. By indexing audio transcripts of training videos, customers can more easily retrieve information relevant to their query and help ourselves.
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Pin Title-Level bibliographic record at top of Newspaper Search results
Many users at our institution simply want to browse the most recent issue of a newspaper we have a subscription to. They are not searching for specific articles.
It would benefit our users if the newspaper search results provided easy access directly to the record (and view-online link) for a specific newspaper title. Perhaps this could be similar to the "Highlight Reference Entry On Top" where the appropriate record is pinned to the top of the results.
So, a Newspaper Search for "New York Times" ought to pin the title-level bibliographic record (that our institution has full access to) to…
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In CDI Non-OA items appearing with OA unlocked icon
We have results that are not open access leading users to paywalled articles, and since these are all 'link in record', it is/was nearly impossible to determine which collection is leading users astray.
Is a fix in the works? Right now the collection I suspect is European Union Publications, which has no Alma portfolios, shows as Type 'Selective package', and which shows the option to 'Remove CDI-only full text activation'. I have not yet clicked that.
I hope a fix is in the pipeline.
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Our library would like you to add a second email address option in the dialogue box coming from My basket in order to streamline c & c
Our library would like you to add a second email address option to those provided in the email dialogue box accessed from My basket so that clients can send a list of items for click and collect to both the Library email and their own email as cc if desired. (Some clients may not wish to use this option, so it should be optional and not essential.)
Also please add another slot to the dialogue box specifically for the name of the patron to be inserted before the slot for the notes, i.e., Name of patron: John Smith
This slot…1 vote -
Penalization date visible in users' loan page
Hello! It would be great once we had read the bar code of the user, and we have the general information to do a loan or a return it will be great if there we can see the date until they can't borrow books. If not it is a problem because they ask you until when they are ban and we have to go until their profile to penalty section to see it.
Thank you!
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Sub-collections: allowing a different description at the top level from a click further down
With sub-collections, we would like to be able to have a different description at the top level, than at a click further down.
For instance, on the collections page, a sub-collection description might simply read:
"Relating to agriculture and rural development"
, whereas, once the user has clicked into that sub-collection, they would see a different, and potentially more ample, description, such as:
"Material relating to all aspects of agriculture and rural development including material dealing with soil, irrigation, crops, farming material and village life."
6 votes -
Adding fields to purchase form
Currently the purchase form in Primo has a limited number of fields. We want to see the class/course name and professor and campus name as fields so we can better plan collection development.
8 votes -
Auto Populate Email in Primo
Auto-Populate Email in Primo from user record while sending the search results to the user's email instead of reentering the email manually.
3 votes -
Primo alerts - user defined frequency and digest options
Based on user suggestions, it would be helpful if, when users set themselves an alert for a saved search, they could choose the frequency with which these came through.
Some users might want them more/less than weekly.
Also, perhaps users could also choose to receive the alerts in a digest form: with the update for every search bundled into one email.
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add abstracts scanning in scrolling view
When Primo (now Promo VE) switched from a book catalog interface to a journal (Central Index) database interface, one new functionality was desired/required by researchers.
The ability to toggle on/off viewing Abstracts in the results is an important option for real-time exploration. Many scholars perform a preliminary scan of titles to remove obvious non-matches, but they then prefer to view the abstracts from
possibly important materials before downloading items into their personal databases. What is missing is the ability to select scrolling through records with the abstracts in view. This could either be added as an option on the initial…1 vote -
Enhanced Hypertext Linking on locals fields to not be affected by pre-filters
We have added enhanced hypertext linking on fields. However, when users click on these links, pre-filters make only searches for the same specific local field possible. This means that's if local field 31 shows an older version of a journal. When a user clicks on it. It will only search for local field 31 within all other local field 31s. Rather than the title or other fields. It would be helpful if pre-filters weren't affected by enhanced hypertext linking.
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Display Copy ID field in Get It
Alma has a Copy ID field but it does not display in Primo in the Get It section. This value should display. It does not have to be in its own column, it could be concatenated with a label of "Copy" and show in the Description column. This was possible in the Aleph/Primo configuration.
57 votes -
To have possible filtering FRBR groups to display only records that match with the search definition
it is important to have possible filtering FRBR groups to display only records that match with the search definition. It happens in recommended bibliography. They are reprints of the same book with the same ISBN, but students need only the last reprint. So, it would be useful to filter FRBR groups and display the last reprint not all of them.
3 votes -
When an item has representations for use in Leganto that are suppressed in Primo VE, remove the View Online section
Currently we have print books with digital representations attached in Alma, for use in Leganto. We suppress these representations from Primo by using a note and display logic as this is the only option currently available. However this means that the book in Primo shows an "available online" status in the brief results, and when the full record is opened there is a View Online (GetIT tab) section that is just blank. Returning to the brief results then shows "Check available services". This is very confusing to users. We would like to have a different method of suppressing that means…
53 votes -
A-Z option in Primo VE Journal Search
Add an A-Z browse option for Primo VE Journal Search, like the one available for Primo Classic as of the May 2017 release: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/030Highlights/028Primo_May_2017_Highlights#Support_of_Alma_Journal_Search_%28New_UI%29
184 votes -
An option for excluding search results from reference lists
Sometimes search results are not quite relevant because the search keywords appear in enriched data - which I don't see on PNX - like bibliography (a reference list). Though it's not perfect Google scholar has a checkbox option 'include citations'. If Primo gives an option like that it would save the time of users searching more appropriate records.
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Primo Back Office: In a consortial environment, Ability to localize Alma collections to a specific instance of Primo
Hello.
Our university system is in a consortial configuration of Alma and Primo Back Office.
Currently, we cannot use Alma collections because one university's (local and institution-specific) collections display in all other Primo instances in our consortia. This is problematic and confusing because a collection at University A displays in University B's Primo as if it were University B's collection. But the collection is local and specific to University A only.
The "collections" I'm talking about are described in the following Exlibris documentation: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/040Resource_Management/050Inventory/050Managing_Collections
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/060Back_Office_Guide/060Configuring_Primo%E2%80%99s_Front_End/050Collection_DiscoveryWe opened Salesforce cases 00636941 and 00708998 and were told by the Exlibris analysts that…
55 votes -
Add facets into the Collection Discovery UI
While we are really happy that the functionality to search withing collections is planned, we propose to implement the facets also for the Collection Discovery.
Facets are very useful to limit results in big collections for discovery and browsing, when the user doesn't know exactly what he is looking for. We do have several big collections.
Also, functionality would be more consistent with the Primo Search interface.230 votes
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