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  1. 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 votes
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  2. 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 votes
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  3. Bring back the "preview" visible on hovering over the title

    Our users really miss being able to see the preview in the right-hand pane when they hover over the title in their search results. Please bring it back, or last make this optional!

    25 votes
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  4. Ability to add customizations and links in the right pane

    Ability to add a tile in the right hand column with custom headline, text, links and images. Allow for these to be persistenst or to be triggered by tags.

    43 votes
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  5. Ability to customize color of preview and facet panes, topic pane and right-hand menu

    The ability to specify a background color, font, and font color for the preview, facet and topic panes.

    6 votes
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  6. More Topic Pane configurations

    The ability to turn components of the Topic Pane on or off, configure the order, and customize the background color and font. Components include Reference Content, Suggested Librarian, Recommended Topics.

    17 votes
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  7. Ability to customize advanced search fields

    Ability to turn fields on or off as available from the All Fields drop down.

    9 votes
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  8. Book reviews spotlight

    A rollup of book review content, with any book reviews removed from the main results set and presented in a spotlight. The spotlight would present the top 3 to 5 results with summary informatino and a "more" link to see all book reviews.

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  9. Page feed interface for search results page

    Currently, Summon displays hidden search results by scrolling down the search results screen. It would be good if users and administrators could select "page feed type" as an interface for displaying hidden search results at their discretion.

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  10. Make it possible to construct a search box for all online material plus physical material from one location only

    At present it is possible to construct a search box which excludes all physical material from one or more library locations. Unfortunately it also excludes physical material found at both those library locations and others, when these share a bibliographical record in the LMS. Make a truly location-specific search box possible.

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