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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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Indicate when content is freely available (but not tracked)
When searching with 'add results beyond your library's collection' ticked, all non-tracked content is labelled 'Citation Only'. However some of this content is in fact freely available, for example lots of content in institutional repositories.
Summon should have a way to indicate that content may be freely available even when not tracked, for content in non-tracked open access journals or open repositories. If it's too difficult for Summon to know when something is available, maybe we could have a third label (other than 'full text online' and 'citation only') for content from repositories where there is a high probability of…
23 votesOpen Access indicator maybe be enabled for search results.
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Add option to force 360 Link to load over HTTPS
In October, Google Chrome release 62 will begin labeling any website loaded over http and containing a form (i.e. every library webpage ever) as "Not Secure." You can read more about that here: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/04/next-steps-toward-more-connection.html
We currently route traffic from Summon and other services we control to 360Link over HTTPS, but we can't force all our users onto HTTPS (especially those coming from Google Analytics). Since the *.search.serialssolutions.com wildcard certificate covers every instance of 360 Link, why not add an option to force all connections to use HTTPS? (Or just make it the default.)
80 votesCompleted in 2018
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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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Make Open Access facet statistics available in OBI
It would be great to be able to look at usage stats for Open Access facet(s) in Summon searches. Since the "Is Open Access" facet is already available in the OBI interface, it makes sense for this functionality to be added to the enhancement list. Considering that Open Access materials are becoming more important globally, and in our library we are looking into raising the profile of our Open Access resources in general, being able to report on statistics would be great for us.
47 votesThis functionality was included as part of the August Summon release.
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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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Show whether "We only subscribe to some titles" is an option.
When you search a title and need to choose a database to subscribe in, it is not clear until you subscribe to the database whether "We only subscribe to some titles" is an option. It would be great if we could see in advance whether we are going to be able to select that option before subscribing to that database, either in the list of database options or in the database details. This would prevent a lot of extra clicking and frustration.
9 votesCompleted in the December 2020 release.
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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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Create an LTI for Summon so that it can be integrated into LMS (Canvas or others).
We want to integrate Summon into our Learning Management Ssystem (LMS) which is Canvas. The easiest way to do this is if we use an existing library service that has an LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability').
Libraries who add search option are using some kind of library LTI product. That's the only way to add something in the sidebar of a Canvas course. Our ILS/catalog does not off an LTI application for connecting it to an LMS. It would be a great improvement if Summon offered an LTI.
92 votesCompleted in the February 2024 release.
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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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"Exact" search for certain fields
Add the functionality to do an "exact" search on certain fields. For example there are very short titles which can be search much better this way. Also signatures in the LCCallNumber field could be found much easier. We are api users (Backend Summon, Frontend VuFind) and are helping ourselves at the moment with "constructed" values for the (for example) LCCallNumber to simualte the possibility of an exact search - but this is far from optimal.
62 votesThis has been completed as part of the Summon 2021 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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Exclude Newspaper Articles and Book Reviews in default basic search
The ability to configure the exclusions of either newspaper articles, book reviews or both from the default search for an institution. Any search conducted would begin with these excluded, and the user could turn off these filters via the user interface.
191 votesThis was added to Summon. See Summon: Search Results Facets and Refinements in the Ex Libris Knowledge Center (exlibrisgroup.com) for details.
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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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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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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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Integrate LibGuides Database A-Z list into Summon search
We add all our databases and library resources as Best Bets so that users can find them when they search Summon. This doesn't work particularly well as the Best Bets search and display functionality is minimal.
We also maintain a complete Database A-Z list in LibGuides. It would save staff time and provide a better user experience if these could be indexed in Summon using the LibGuides API (as our LibGuides are indexed in Summon), instead of relying on Best Bets which isn't suited to this task.
104 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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Create system agnostic ways to integrate with the UI e.g. chat and readings
At the moment, you have to cross your fingers and hope ProQuest/ExLibris partner with the system you want integrated. For example Summon supports LibraryH3lp, Springshare's LibAnswers or OCLC's QuestionPoint chat widgets. We use a different system. I would like to see fields in the Admin console that are not provider specific. e.g. Enter your chat widget code here. Similarly we would like to see integration with our course readings system. That system has APIs that would allow us to link out to lists based on a course/unit code search. It would be great if there was a way to introduce…
38 votesThis functionality is available via custom panels: Summon: Administration Console: Custom Panel Sections - Ex Libris Knowledge Center
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