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Setting the help page display method
When I set a link to the institution's own page in Help, the page pop up on the Leganto screen.
We would like to add a setting that allows the Help page to be displayed in another tab of the browser directly from the link.13 votes -
Make the "Disable Resolving" feature in the Citation details reportable in analytics
Please make the "Disable Resolving" feature (from the Citation details tab in Alma) reportable in the Course Reserves area of Analytics.
This would allow institutions to ensure appropriate citations have resolving disabled. This is essential in cases where publishers do not allow direct linking in any way to their content for course readings.
It would also allow institutions to do a tidy-up of citations which required resolving disabled at some stage but where it's no longer required.62 votes -
Cite it support for CiNii (ci.nii.ac.jp).
Please add CiNii (https://ci.nii.ac.jp/) as supported sites for Cite It! .
CiNii is a major service for searching articles in Japan.
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Cite it support for NDL Search (iss.ndl.go.jp).
Please add NDL Search (https://iss.ndl.go.jp) as supported sites for Cite It! .
NDL Search is a material search service of the National Diet Library in Japan.
It is a major search site in Japan.22 votes -
Shibboleth SSO authentication for Refworks
Recently the new version of RefWorks created SSO authentication process for Users. We have enabled this process. However, currently when users export records from Leganto to Refworks. It isn't allowed in many cases. As users need to use their new Refworks username and password. For Leganto to login to RefWorks and export the record.
Solution. It would be better if users in Leganto could use SSO to sign into Refworks. So a specific new RefWorks password is no longer needed.7 votesAvailable in the March 2022 release.
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Customise mandatory fields per citation type
Currently the only mandatory field for a citation is "Title". We would like to be able to customise which fields are mandatory depending on the item type, so that instructors are prompted to fill out more than just the title when adding items from outside of our collections.
We often find tutors fill out the title and add a URL, but if that URL breaks then just the title isn’t always sufficient information to find a new link to the resource. Having just the title also doesn't give students much information to work with when judging which resources to engage…
26 votesThis functionality available in October release.
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Include text of Library Discussion Note in Leganto Detailed Notifications Letter
Could the actual text of the Library Discussion Note be included for Instructors when they receive a Notification that there is an outstanding Library Discussion via the Leganto Detailed Notifications Letter.
Currently, the Letter only tells the Instructor that there is a Library Discussion waiting for them. They then need to log-in to Leganto to see what it is. Providing the text would enable the Instructor to determine whether they need to log-in to Leganto and action something in the list or not, and would bring the letter in line with other email notifications e.g. service desk messages, where they…70 votesCompleted in December 2024 release.
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List/Course status = No list by choice
There are many courses that, for a variety of reasons, intentionally do not have reading lists. The fact that this is deliberate is not immediately obvious though, and confusion can arise when people expect there to be a list connected to the course.
Students might wonder if they are doing something wrong, librarians might have to keep separate spreadsheets to note which ones are supposed to be empty and instructors might be confused when asked to make lists in their LMS.
For these courses, there should be some way to identify that the absence of any lists is by design…
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Cite it support for Amazon.co.jp.
Please add Amazon.co.jp (https://www.amazon.co.jp/) as supported sites for Cite It! .
16 votesAvailable in October release
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copy multiple citations from one list to anynother without section info
Being able to select multiple citations without one or more sections, copy these and insert into another list
1 voteThis is available in the 2023 new user experience.
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Stop adding reading lists automatically when looking at them
At the moment, when students look at a reading list in an LMS it's automatically added to their "My Lists" area in Leganto.
According to Ex Libris this is by design but they are open to change this depending on how popular this idea turns out to be.
(see Case 973700)We don't think that just a short glance at a syllabus justifies a list being added - most likey unbeknownst to the students themselves.
And if they want to add a list, it's only one click on the Add button.We don't want the feature to be abolished, but…
4 votesIt is now possible to configure Leganto such that students are not automatically added to the course when they access a list via LTI. If you would like this option enabled for your institution please open a support ticket.
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Create brand new courses during rollover
When we import course data into Alma, we use a program that extracts all the courses from our course database and produces a ready-to-use import file for any given institution. The course ID in this file is typically something like COURSE-AUTUMN-2021 (Course code, semester and year).
We use the same file if we want to run a rollover, with some manual changes to it. We don't check if the courses we extracted are new, or if there is an existing course in Alma for the year before. Our starting point is the COURSE-ID column, and in OLD-COURSE-ID we write the…
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Filter "My lists" by course
Some instructors have many lists. It would be useful if they could filter based on year and semester in addition to the existing sorting options.
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Predefined searches to Find lists
It is possible to create simple search-links to Leganto that gives you a list of reading lists that matches the query, e.g.:
https://bibsys-xc.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/leganto/readinglist/searchlists?search=MGUEN101&auth=SAMLWe would like the possibility to use other and more specified fields the same way and build up an advanced search URL.
Practical use-case: In the February 2021 release of Leganto new search fields were added to the advanced search for Term and Year. It would be useful to create a link that searches for reading lists for a specific year/term.
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HTML in list notes and list and sections' description fields
In some cases, an instructor needs to provide extra information to their student by referring to an external website.
Use case: "All the citations in this section cannot be booked through the library but can be found in the compendium. More information <a>here</a>."It would be very useful to use HTML in the list notes, or in the description field of the list or sections. Both so instructors can use links, but also to make the information more visible if it comes after a long list of citations (in the case of a list note).
57 votesAvailable in the new UI in the March 2024 release.
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Service Temporarily Unavailable Message from Primo to appear in Leganto
In Alma, you can configure a "Service Temporarily Unavailable" message via the service labels. This can then be applied to electronic collections in Alma, and displays when viewed in Primo.
As this functionality already exists in Alma/Primo, I feel it should be extended to appear in Leganto as well, otherwise Users are not getting information about services being unavailable.
68 votesDone for Dec release.
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Option to rename/customise the Rialto 'Add Items' search scope
We have recently turned on the option for instructors to 'add items' using Rialto but this terminology is confusing for them.
We would like the option to customise this heading e.g. 'Search our book supplier' or 'Rialto (Library book supplier)'
This should encourage use and facilitate training.We would much prefer instructors use Rialto rather than Cite It to harvest from publisher websites. Cite It often misses key bib information and/or brings in erroneous e-links.
1 voteAvailable in November release
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Option to rename/customise the Rialto 'Add Items' search scope
We have recently turned on the option for instructors to 'add items' using Rialto but this terminology is confusing for them.
We would like the option to customise this heading e.g. 'Search our book supplier' or 'Rialto (Library book supplier)'
This should encourage use and facilitate training.We would much prefer instructors use Rialto rather than Cite It to harvest from publisher websites. Cite It often misses key bib information and/or brings in erroneous e-links.
2 votesThis is available. In new UI use label code "search.searchScopes.dropdown.rialto".
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Add information about who published the list to Course Reserves SA in Analytics
Information about the person who published the list should be added to Course Reserves Subject Area in Analytics. We need this solution for better reporting and list management.
Right now, information about the person who published the reading list is poorly accessible. It can be found under Recent Changes in the Reading List in Alma, but it can disappear if the log is too long. We would like it to be clearly visible on the Reading List level (registered as a separate idea https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/395697-leganto/suggestions/43545540-who-published-the-list-should-be-displayed-in-read) and available in Analytics.
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Who published the list should be displayed in Reading List Information in Alma
Information about the person who published the reading list is poorly accessible. It can be found under Recent Changes in the Reading List in Alma, but it can disappear if the log is too long. We would like it to be clearly visible on the Reading List level and placed next to the Review Requester field.
We need this solution for better reporting and list management. We believe that this should be an easy fix, as all of the information is already available in the system.
Information about person who published the list should be added to Course Reserves Subject…
49 votes
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