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Show all Availaility information of library catalog records.
When there are multiple availability information on library catalog, one of them shows up on results page and the others are hidden in current Summon interface.
It is favorable for library if all the availability information would be shown as default.11 votesThis was included as part of the User Interface improvements in the December 2021 Summon Quarterly Release. Availability is now available under each result.
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Top menu bar - Feedback, Help, Language
Some suggestions for the top menu bar.
- Allow enable/ disable for Feedback & Help in top menu. Currently, feedback and help are able to pointing to specific links. But not able to disable/ enable the links.
- Move the language dropdown to the top menu, instead of under the manual button then click and select from the dropdown. It's not easy for patron to find out this option and change the language.1 voteThe language dropdown was moved out with the recent User Interface changes
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Add "sent from" box in "email this item."
Currently, if you want to email an item to another person, there is no space to indicate who the sender is.
14 votesCompleted in the 2023 May release as part of the 2023 Summon Roadmap.
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Add Section number to Course ID in Course Reserves page
The Course Reserves page in Summon is a nice improvement for Summon Over Alma customers. In Summon, only the Alma course code is displaying as the Course Number. In the attached example, you can see that Bio 220 has 3 sections. It is not clear in Summon which section number corresponds to which course number. Please add the section number to course number in Summon.
5 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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sorting results by publication date
The sort by publication date newest/oldest in Summon does not sort by the displayed publication date but by the merged record date which is invisible to the end user.
The user is seeing the results screen and so it seems really odd to provide a publication date sort and then not allow the user to sort by the date that they can see since the behavior on the backend is entirely and completely transparent to them and doesn't seem to serve the user well by any stretch.
There needs to be a true publication date sort that uses the displayed…
11 votesThis feature was added as part of the upgrade to the Central Discovery Index (CDI).
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Label peer-review results as such
On the results page, add a label to each entry that is peer-reviewed (like you do for "open access" content).
29 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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Clearing search will not let the user enter a new search directly
When the user clicks the x that clears the search-field in order to make a new search, the cursor is not placed in the search field. The user has to click in the search field in order to write something. The way this works it is quicker to just select the text in the search field and erase it by hitting the Back space.
14 votesThis feature is included on the 2020 Summon Roadmap courtesy of the ELUNA / IGELU New Enhancement Request System (NERS).
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filter results by vendor and/or database name
The ability for Summon to filter results by vendor and/or database name (IEEE, ProQuest, Taylor...).
38 votesAs part of the upgrade to the Central Discovery Index (CDI) we added a collections facet that filters by database.
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Display edition and publication year in brief results, for books and ebooks
I have been told by Ex Libris support that Summon only exposes the edition in the short summary for records that have a content type of 'Book'. This makes it difficult for patrons to determine which edition is the most recent, where both books and ebooks are available. See attached image for an example of how both can be displayed, to reduce confusion.
24 votesEdition, volume and publication year are now displayed in the brief result.
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Offer the option of having the library location facet expanded by default
We would like to be able to have the libraries under LIBRARY LOCATION visible by default on the Summon results page
8 votesIncluded in the August 2019 quarterly release
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Usability of Advanced Search
Certain elements of the advanced search screen are very difficult to use on mobile devices, particularly the 'Content type' and 'Discipline' multiple check-box options, where scrolling through a long list is problematic.
Is there a way to improve this, perhaps by using a larger pop-out box that can be scanned at a glance?1 voteCompleted as part of the November 2022 release.
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Include PMID in Advanced search
Add PMID explicitly as an option under Advanced Search along with DOI and others. PMID is heavily used by health sciences fields.
17 votesCompleted as part of the 2022 Advanced Search form update.
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Include Oxford Reference content in the Topic Explorer
Oxford is an important reference source that would add scope and value to the topic explorer.
5 votesThis is live as of March 6, 2019. To select this as a source for Topic Explorer, if you are a subscriber, simply go to the Topics section of the main Settings page in the Summon Admin Console, and drag and drop Oxford University Press from the Disabled column to the Enabled column.
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Summon Advanced Search for Courses and Instructors
It would be great to have "instructor" and "course" fields as an advanced search for patrons via Summon/Alma, as we currently offer that option as part of Voyager.
26 votesIn 2018, in addition to the instructor and course facets in Summon/Alma, we added the ability to browse or search by instructor or course. This can be found on a separate course reserves page via a tab at the top of the Summon search results page.
The page lists all courses by default, but these can be filtered down by typing in your search term.
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Consistent link back to search results
The user leaves the search result and goes to detail page, advanced search or saved items. Then when the user wants to return to search results this is done in three different ways. We would like the link back to search results look the same in all three situations. The one we prefer is the one in the detail page.
2 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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Displaying all links available in Summon results page
We would like to suggest ExLibris to enhance in Summon results page by displaying all fulltext links subscribed in the knowledgebase. Having only one fulltext link available when there are multiple sources available to choose from can help maximize the use of the library’s resources and most important offer users a solution when the 1st link presented doesn’t work. EJP is already doing this.
It’s kind of a problem also. The situation happened this week when the Proquest research platform was experiencing connectivity issue and performed a temporary maintenance. Because Proquest fulltext links are direct linking, the user was not…
104 votesThis has been completed as part of the Summon 2021 Roadmap.
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Language selection
We have received complaints about the difficulty in changing the language on the Summon-page. It's not intuitive to have to click on the language you already see in order to get the other alternative/s. We would like the alternative you click on first to be called Change language or maybe just "language". As it is now, if I want to change language from Swedish to English, I first have to click on Swedish to get to the Language-menu and be able to chose English.
67 votesThis was completed as part of the February 2022 release of Summon.
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Summon results not displaying custom coverage dates
On Summon results, show custom coverage dates next to links so researchers know what they should have access to before clicking on an e-Resource. The EJP seems to do this. Without this feature this is causing much frustration and confusion for users.
91 votesCompleted as part of the 2022 Summon Roadmap.
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Add public note text to Summon results
Display public note text onSummon results to show users access restrictions or special instructions that users should be aware of before clicking on an eResource link. This same info on the preview pane may be an option.
106 votesThis was completed as part of the Summon August release.
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Better Facet controls
The ability to set expand or collapse as default by facet; ability to add facets, remove facets and change facet order
54 votesIncluded in the August 2019 quarterly release
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