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Add A-Z list for databases
Add A-Z list for databases or allow A-Z order from the list of results in Summon to set a query for custom link.
80 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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Add Unpaywall database to the Summon index
Unpaywall is a service which harvests Open Access content directly from over 50,000 repositories. It's rapidly becoming the leading source of information about legal OA content across the web.
Unpaywall offer a 'database snapshot', a complete dump of everything we know about every Open Access DOI that exists.
I think it would be a great idea for Summon to incorporate this data in its index. It would allow a much greater level of direct linking to Open Access content for all Summon users.
(It's already possible to integrate Unpaywall's API with 360link for individual, article-by-article requests.)
164 votesLinks directly to PDFs from Unpaywall are included in the November 2019 quarterly release. In 2020 we will expand on this functionality to include facet support and reporting.
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Fields 530 and 550^i not displaying in Summon for records from Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (database F1W)
I would like to propose that the default settings for the content type=Government document record to be changed. Currently, the default "brief" view does not include the volume/Issue data for content type=government documents. Instead, the Issue field data is located in the Preview section and the client would need to know to click on the Preview button in order to see the volume/issue number. This is not user-friendly or obvious to clients. In particular, this is not working for the display of Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstract records.
36 votesCan be addressed with the new 5xx display functionality. To add 5xx display to your instance of Summon, please open a support case.
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Make View Changes in Client Center Exportable
We'd really appreciate if the View Changes in Client Center had an exportable format, such as Excel.
1 voteThis has been completed as part of the Summon 2021 Roadmap.
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Update Summon's AGLC citation style - AGLC4 is now available
We would like to see the AGLC3 citation style available in the Summon UI replaced by AGLC4 (or at least AGLC4 be made available as an option).
11 votesCustom citations are now available in Summon as part of the August 2022 release. This citation style should be available. If it is not, or if any citation style does not meet your criteria, you can create your own.
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Ability to remove the long URL when exporting from Summon to RefWorks
When bibliographic data is exported from Summon into RefWorks the Summon link is included.
Is it possible to not include this link for books specifically?
Or to have an option to exclude the link.Currently they look like this: and as you can imagine this does not look good in a bibliography (We have to tell students to remove the links, which is far from ideal)
Goleman, D. (2005). Emotional intelligence (10th anniversary ed.). New York: Bantam Books. Retrieved from http://staffs.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwY2AQNtIz0EUrE0D9Qg_TgABLtygjJ8RyJ-j4GrAdlJZWDN08BesUZudnJII7jrqQxZTQHWk5QOdC7soAdr_NTYGlLyP4yHxjP8TQiqUJsNQ1AO9MNQV3wQxhZ-3A-Magk0HBtiLVJm6CDCygHQZCDEypecIMXPAiqFKEQcwVcqtOYo5CJtJZmaIMMm6uIc4euhDD4qFjLvEQtxmJMfAmghaq55WAN7SlSDAoGCYlW6SlpqQap6ZamFiagfo7KRbAOtIoMdnSwsQ4RZJBFKtZUjjEpRm4wKeJgkcFZBhY04CpNlUW5js5cMgAAHTYbd8
96 votesThis has been completed as part of the Summon 2021 Roadmap.
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Add "Council of Science Editors" (CSE) to Cite this Item options
Faculty has requested that Council of Science Editors (CSE) formatting style be added as an option in Summon's "Cite this Item" drop-down menu.
2 votesCompleted as part of the 2022 Summon Roadmap.
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Allow A-Z order for Best Bets admin display
When you have a long list of Best Bets and they don't automatically get ordered alphabetically, the admin work becomes quite unpleasant when editing/removing entries etc.
34 votesCan be achieved using the bulk update proces.
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Add library location and genre to advanced search options
Several facets are already on the advanced search option screen, but we'd like to see added the library location facet and genre for those that use the advanced search feature regularly.
29 votesCompleted partially as part of the 2022 Advanced Search update for Summon. Library Location is now available as an option on the Advanced Search form.
For Genre, you can still search that as an option at the top of the Advanced Search form, but it is not available in a similar format as Library Location.
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Full text link
Must provide full text link PDF in the first result page itself, to click and get for users very easily
25 votesThis has been completed as part of the Summon 2021 Roadmap.
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RestrictionsOnAccess
Make access restrictions visible (MARC field 506 / mapping "RestrictionsOnAccess").
In mapping, MARC field 506 is assigned under RestrictionsOnAccess. Unfortunately this field is not visible in Summon. For the user it would be a big advantage if the access restrictions are shown at the hits.5 votesReleased in 2023. Displaying Library Notes in Summon - Ex Libris Knowledge Center
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WhatsApp, Skype for business available in right pane
At the moment only a few chat programs can be integrated. I would love to integrate WhatsApp or Skype for Business, or common chat functionalitied in the right pane.
So the library can use the chat software of the organisation instead of buying edxtra software24 votesWe added WhatsApp support in the May 2020 Summon release.
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Add ability to apply your EZproxy to the DOI field links in Summon search results
Currently in Summon search results, the DOI field provides a link that does not include EZproxy. So users might get to the item via this DOI link but since they have not arrived there through EZproxy, they might not be properly authenticated for access. Please give the option to prepend your EZproxy URL to the DOI links.
1 voteIncluded as part of the May 2021 release
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Allow more than 2 custom panels to be expanded by default
At present, no more than 2 custom panels in the right-hand section of the Summon results page can be expanded by default. Others are only accessible by a More... link. Give libraries the option of setting how many custom panels are open by default.
13 votesCompleted courtesy of ELUNA and IGeLU NERS.
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Facets usage - request to view 'excludes' as well as 'includes'
A while back I was looking at our facet usage stats for 2017 to date, and I noticed that although we have Newspaper Articles excluded from searches by default, this facet has the highest amount of 'uses'. I asked Ex-Libris Support if this was because every search a user runs is, by default, including the exclusion of Newspapers as a facet use. I also asked if there was a way to get stats on the number of people who remove the exclusion of newspaper articles after running their first search.
For an example, this was our top-used facet at the…
121 votesCompleted. See Summon: Search Results Facets and Refinements - Ex Libris Knowledge Center for details.
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Add 'date last updated' to database details
In the Data Management section of Serials Solutions, it would be useful if the database details screen displayed when the metadata was last updated for each database. This could be accomplished by having a 'date last updated' field in the database details screen.
This would be helpful for finding out how current the database's included titles, URLs, etc. are in the knowledgebase.
245 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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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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Mechanism for Best Bets to 'harvest' LibAnswers FAQs (from SpringShare)
LibAnswers FAQs have topics, keywords, titles and serve a similar purpose to best bets (in our approach anyway).
An automated regular harvest of these merged with existing best bets makes it easy to share the workload managing this sort of content and pushes us closer to the idea that searching Summon is literally searching the Library.
11 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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Include MARC 505 and 511 fields in the Details Page
For music recordings and films, it is particularly important to include the 505 and 511 fields to identify the unique aspects of an item. These fields are currently indexed in Summon, but not displayed, and Syndetics is not complete enough to replace them. Additionally, it can be confusing to users to have items in the search results for key terms found in the 505 and 511, but not displayed in the record.
15 votesCompleted as part of the 2023 roadmap, courtesy of ELUNA and IGeLU NERS voting.
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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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