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Permalink popups get in the way.
Permalink popups on each records get in the way and hide the clear button when we bring up the permalink window.
And when we tried to click the clear button, cursors and popups blink and do not look very good. I hope that it will be modified.4 votesFixed in the June 5 2024 monthly maintenance release.
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Full title of search result on mouseover (titles are truncated on smaller screens)
Problem: Summon users who have smaller display screens (such as laptops) are not seeing the full title for search results – instead search results are being truncated with the remainder of the title not visible for the user.
For academic journal articles that often have long titles, this means that users are not able to properly identify a search result’s relevance.
Currently, the only way these users can find out the full title is by clicking through each result and going directly to the source. This is undesirable for users as is time consuming and clunky.Proposed solution: We propose…
48 votesDelivered in the February 2024 release.
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Don't force title case in Summon UI for Search Scope Names
Allow the Summon UI to display Search Scope Names as they have been entered by the library instead of forcing them to display in title case.
For example, if the Scope Name is Books and Journals, display "Books and Journals" in the UI, and if it's Circulating Collection (items you can check out), display "Circulating Collection (items you can check out)" in the UI.
Right now, these Scope Names are forced to be displayed as "Books And Journals" and "Circulating Collection (Items You Can Check Out)" for the end user.
18 votesSearch scopes respect library's preferred case.
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autoholdings for Springer ebooks
Hi!
we would like to get auto holdings from Springer when we buy their single ebooks.
Right now it works from eBook central and T&F and we would like the same service from Springer ebook shop as well.
Please vote :)15 votesReleased in February 2024.
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Configuring a ‘Collection Discovery’ search in Summon
Unlike Primo customers, Summon users cannot navigate to the Collections Lobby to find items available as part of Alma Collections unless they click into the details page of a record and scroll down to the bottom where they are presented with the ‘see more from *** collection’. A simple search in Summon is searching within everything we have in Alma (and published to Summon) - so individual titles are appearing in the results. But the collection names are not searchable. Summon is not able to provide a similar "Collection Discovery" search to Primo. Summon' s design is not based on…
12 votesReleased in November 2022.
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Google Analytics 4
Dear Summon
It seems Summon has not supported Google Analytics 4(GA4) yet.
Is it possible to update it to support GA4 and a customer can input a code which begins with NOT "UA-" in Summon Admin Console?19 votesCompleted as part of the May 2023 Quarterly Release.
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"Quick Look" - Improve the quick look to be more flexible, including delivering with the four major elements in a "closed" position
Quick Look - improve the quick-look to be more flexible, including delivering the key elements (subjects, table of contents, abstract, etc.) in a "closed" position, linearly in one column, allowing the user to choose which one to see on demand. The fixed display (headed by the 1-25) does not move or actually center on screen (laptops), making the right column data extremely hard to see at the bottom right of the screen. Make the elements "on demand" with clear "back" buttons to return to the quick look landing page. Also the page is not pdf or print friendly, and since…
6 votesCompleted as part of the 2023 roadmap.
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No result searches / Did you mean?
We have problems with patrons entering full citations into the Summon search box and getting no results, even though we hold the item in question.
We want the developers to alter the Summon search algorithm so it automatically removes punctuation from searches, enabling more useful search results!
(We already trying to use the translations feature to alter the ‘suggestions to improve your search’)50 votesIn the spring of 2023, we made changes to our algorithm to improve the handling of citation searches. We are now using AI to parse these queries to increase the likelihood of a successful search.
While this improvement may not solve all issues with citation searches, our internal testing shows significant improvement.
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Name and e-mail should be mandatory on the Interlibrary Loan Request form
It's possible to make an Interlibrary Loan Request on No Result Page without filling in the fields Name and E-mail in the form. This means that some request are anonymous which is of course not desirable.
6 votesA properly formatted email address is required for the ILL form as of the August 2021 release.
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Refine search sort order
We would find it useful to be able to re-order the facets listed in Refine Your Search section of the Summon results display, so that facets used most are placed towards the top.
1 voteCompleted as part of the 2022 Summon Roadmap.
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Database order in 360 Link and EJP: Make it possible to upload changes in a file
In the 360 Link Admin Console it’s possible to change the order in which databases er shown in the Sidebar Helper frame, the 360 Link results page, and the E-Journal Portal results page. As it is you can change the order by moving one database at a time on the list (either by dragging the database to a new position on the list or by changing the number the database has on the list. We would like it to be possible to download the list of databases in a file, make the changes in a spreadsheet and upload it. At…
12 votesCompleted for the June 2022 release.
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Increase the height of the Summon search box
If you have a long search string, e.g.:
(multi-disciplinary OR interdisciplinary OR trans-disciplinary) research funding barriers
You want to make sure the words are spelled and spaced correctly. This is hard to do in the current basic search interface, except perhaps by going back and forth with the arrow keys, or typing your search string in Notepad for editing then copy-pasting it on to the text field.
This is somewhat better in the Advanced Search form but can still be problematic.
A search box that auto expands based on content would be nice.
22 votesRecently changed how longer search queries are handled in Summon search box, which should address this issue.
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allow kbart uploading for library specific holdings
For collections not in Intota, if we can get kbart files from the vendor, it would be great to be able to use the kbart file provided as opposed to transfer the information a new format.
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Mandatory sender e-mail field in Summon
In summon you can email records / titles, from your search results to others via the small feature in the top right corner. Unfortunately, it is not a requirement that the sender of the email is obligatory to fill in a sender field (There is no sender field at all.)
In principle, you can email posts / titles with associated messages in the note field anonymously!It also means that when we at the library receive such an e-mail, we only know who sent it if the patron added a text that helps us identify him/her.
We therefore suggest that…
6 votesCompleted as part of the 2023 roadmap, courtesy of IGeLU and ELUNA NERS.
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Mandatory e-mail field
In summon you can email records / titles, from your search results to others via the small feature in the top right corner. Unfortunately, it is not a requirement that the sender of the email is obligatory to fill in the sender field. In principle, you can email posts / titles with associated messages in the note field anonymously - which makes correspondence difficult.
3 votesThis was delivered in April 2023.
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Make Unpaywall a trackable database in Summon
Include Unpaywall as a standalone, discoverable and trackable database within the client centre. This would then remove the dependency on other databases that include OA content having been tracked in the Client Centre from Unpaywall linking and, therefore, discoverability in Summon.
7 votesUnpaywall was added the the 360 KB in 2023.
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publication date filter- no visual indication it has been selected
When a user selects the pre-defined publication date facets (Last 12 Months, 3 years, 5 years) there is no Green Tick used to indicate that it has been selected. The date slider is changed to indicate the dates used, and the dates are filled in, but these are less obvious when selecting other facets.
This can be overlooked by end users when they then conduct another search.
I know that they probably should restart by clearing the Facets/filters but it seems like there is a lack of consistency when compared to how other facets are displayed after selection.16 votesThis was included as part of the facet improvements for the User Interface in the December 2021 Summon Quarterly Release.
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Ability to match language settings of Summon with 360Link
The interface language of Summon and 360Link has no connection.
So, when linking from Summon to 360 Link, abroad students have to change both language settings of Summon and 360Link.
This is inconvenient for abroad students.12 votesCompleted as part of the 2023 roadmap, courtesy of ELUNA and IGeLU NERS voting.
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Collection Discovery for Summon over Alma
Alma has a feature that allows libraries to manage collections of titles by grouping them in categories for easy browsing. Primo sites can expose these curated collections with Primo's built-in Collection Discovery UI. The University of California at Irvine is using it to showcase award winning books in their collection, as seen in this example:
https://uci.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01CDL_IRV_INST:UCI
We think this is a useful feature and would like the same functionality to be available to Summon over Alma sites.
18 votesSupported as of November 2022 release
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Intota Consortium Sharing: “Terms of use” should be shown in EJP on “From Consortium titles”
When you share a database and a license belonging to the database with a “child instance” then “Terms of use” are only shown in the eJournal Potal belong to the “parent instance”. As terms of use is as relevant to the users at the “child institution” as to the users at the “parent institution” this information should be inherited.
4 votesThe problem has been solved with the Q1 2022 update.
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