Stop indexing Ebsco "abstract" results so they no longer appear in Summon "Full-Text" Results with broken links

One persistent problem we have between Summon and EBSCO is abstracts indexed as articles in Summon. Some journals index these abstracts as individual titles, which is why they get pulled into Summon as standalone full text articles, but EBSCO (which is where we have full text) does not index them at all. So not only does the openURL break, if you search for them in EBSCO you often get zero hits. Since we have so much full text in EBSCO, this accounts for a good many of our bad urls in Summon and it is frustrating and confusing for librarians and users.

Make display of all 5xx note fields the default in Summon in the Catalog Detail page, results screen and elsewhere. These fields already appear in Primo, with various labels (General note for 500, Language note for 546, Awards note for 586, Bibliography for 504, etc.). With these omitted from Summon, patrons are missing vital, helpful information from bibliographic records, such as: accessibility features for patrons with disabilities (532, 546); detailed language information--not just the languages themselves, but whether they’re for subtitles, described video, certain articles in anthologies, etc. (546); awards won for picture books, Academy Award winning movies, etc. (586); translation information (500, 546); DVD special features (500); “based on” information for movies, graphic novel or mass market adaptations, etc. (500); issues included in collections (vital for graphic novel reader continuity) (500); target audience for reading levels, content advisories, etc. (521); cast and crew of movies (511/508); dissertation information (502); open access information (506); whether bibliographies are included (504); and so on. We include this information when creating bibliographic records to be helpful to patrons; having it invisible in Summon is counterproductive.

Make display of all subfields from the 300 physical description field the default in Summon for all types of materials, in the catalog detail screen, results screens, and elsewhere. Currently, Summon only displays 300 MARC physical description information for books in search results and catalog detail pages; and even for books, only subfield “a” (pagination) is included. This means that patrons can’t see information like: number of DVDs or CDs in a set; whether movies are in black-and-white or color; playing time of DVDs or CDs; any accompanying materials like booklets with DVDs or CDs in book-and-CD sets; types and amount of illustrations; etc. This makes selection of desired materials more difficult for patrons. Please map and display subfields, including $a, $b, $c, $e, $f, $g, $3 from the 300 field.

Please take information for the “Language” field in Summon and the Alma Display Services page from the 546 language note bibliographic field, instead of the 041 language codes bibliographic field. The 546 language note contains more detailed information about the languages included in a resource than the 041, including whether they’re for subtitles, described video, summaries as opposed to full articles, translations, etc. The current information in the Language display is not helpful for patrons. Not only does it not give details about how the languages appear in a resource, the displayed languages aren’t consistent with the language of the rest of the bibliographic description.

There's no consistent format for book review titles appearing in various periodicals. Across the Summon index, one sees entries like:

• {author name} {book title}


• {book title}


• Review: {book title}

and all manner of different combinations of these elements. Unfortunately, OpenURL linking to destination databases fails unless both sources agree upon the format of the title. Summon describes book review titles one way and it might match some databases, many it will not. Links from Summon to ProQuest databases don't even work consistently (see attachment).

Summon needs an approach superior to naive OpenURL linking or poorly formed searches using title metadata. Often, plenty of non-title metadata uniquely describes the item in question (date, issue, volume, and starting page rarely have the same disagreement issues as textual data).

Currently, the contents of the brief record displayed at the top of the Summon over Alma Service Page are not customizable. We would like to be able to define this display freely, as in Primo VE.

For example, in addition to the fields currently displayed, we would like to add Record type, Statement of responsibility (author from 245 $c), Publisher name and place, Series name and number, etc.

Example (parts in brackets are not displayed in current service page)

[BOOK]
Winnie-the-Pooh[ / A.A. Milne ; with decorations by Ernest H. Shepard ]
Milne, A. A. 1882-1956 Alan Alexander; Shepard, Ernest H. 1879-1976 Ernest Howard
[Tokyo : Kodansha International] , 1996
[Kodansha English library. 135]