Add the ability to detach citations from the repository in bulk
E-resource records regularly change and as a library we have to de-activate and suppress electronic records because they have been withdrawn from a platform or they have migrated from one platform to another. We also subscribe to packages where content regularly drops in and out.
If a citation record is associated with inventory that has been withdrawn, we may need to re-link it to an alternative version of the record that is active. The process and enrich citations tool can locate resources in bulk across multiple resource lists, but it only picks up citations that have been detached from the repository, and there is no bulk way to do this. It has to be done manually record-by-record which is not feasible when dealing with a large package of titles.
Can the ability to detach in bulk be developed? This would complement the enrich citations tool: a job could be run to bulk detach a group of citations, then the enrich tool could be run afterwards to re-link them again to active alternative records.
Lee Houghton
shared this idea
The Reading List Citation Update Task (Admin > Run a Job) includes the option to detach citations from the repository in bulk.
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Chris Jones
commented
I thought there was a "detach from repository" option in the Reading List Citation Update Task job? Have you been ale to try that? Admittedly having reports in place to point to the metadata deletions would be necessary I suppose.