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Ability to prioritize databases in the Database Recommender
We want to prioritize the list of databases in the Database Recommender so that we can emphasize certain databases over others.
42 votesThis has been completed as part of the Summon 2021 Roadmap.
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The publication date filter is currently designed to allow filtering within the last 100 years, insufficient to finding U.S. primary sources
The publication date filter is currently designed to allow filtering within the last 100 years. This is insufficient when trying to limit results to find primary source documents, e.g., related to the U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865.
30 votesThis issue was addressed with the facet improvements in December 2021.
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Fix the date issue when searching books.
Currently, if you search for books within a time frame, e.g. last five years, you will also get books that were published outside the date range, e.g. 1980. This is a serious problem for students needing to be current, yet having to sift through older material to find newer material. This is not an issue with journal articles.
12 votesCompleted as part of the July 2017 release. We improved our match and merge process to resolve this issue.
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Provide the ability to separate books and ebooks when searching.
Currently, we cannot search print books only. We can separate ebooks/books if we want ebooks only be either selecting the full text limiter or the electronic books subject limiter. However, we can't do the same for print (hard copy books).
409 votesIncluded in the May 2021 Release.
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Add search history and allow searching with sets from the search history
Filter options and relevance ranking is one way to search, explore and discover, but it has limitations. To combine previous searches is standard in all kind of bibliographic and full text databases and would be a true enhancement. Most professional information specialists lack confident in search systems that only rely on filter and relevance ranking. Give us boolean search using sets from the search history!
137 votesAdded ability to save to Google Drive or MSOneDrive or to save only during your session in 2018.
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Exclude Content Type Newspaper Article should include Online Newspaper Content
The Newspaper facet in Summon should also include/exclude online content from newspapers. Online newspaper content is currently coded as a Web Resources
If you do a search for "Devos education" with newspaper articles excluded, 25 of the first 30 citations are from:
Washington Post - Blogs
Washington Post (Online)
New York Times (Online)
53 votesThe initial work for this has been completed as part of the August 2022 quarterly release. We have identified content that should be labeled newspaper content and will continue to improve that content as we process it for ingestion in CDI.
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Don't limit search results to 200 items
Don't limit search results to 200 items. Many students use Summon as part of their literature review strategy to gather information for dissertations. Removing the limit of only 200 results being returned would allow users to get a far more accurate picture of what is available to them from the literature they are reviewing.
39 votesAs of the July 2017 release you can now review up to the first 1,000 results. To do this you will need to configure the number of results retrieved at a time from 10 to 25.
We maintain a limit at 1,000 to prevent crawlers from scraping content or overloading the system with traffic.
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Make citation formats customisable
We would like to be able to customise the Harvard citation format to our house style, and to add custom citation formats to the list.
30 votesCustom citations are now available in Summon as part of the August 2022 release.
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Automatically searching for the corrected spelling
Google-like searching using misspellings; automatically searching for the corrected spelling with a link to search the original misspelled terms; current behavior presents results using misspelling and link to search on corrected terms
68 votesThis has been completed as part of the Summon 2021 Roadmap.
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