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Abilty to customise default search screen
The default search screen is currently empty other than the search box and our logo. We would like to add some custom content to the screen - e.g. info boxes suggesting some resources to try that are not discoverable in summon or some help guides. also to flag up new resources or future training events (e.g. on how to search summon and ebooks. When we set up Summon last year we were told that it wasn't possible to put any of this info on the default search screen.
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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 votesAs of the July 2017 release you can now review up to the first 1,000 results. To do this you will need to configure the number of results retrieved at a time from 10 to 25.
We maintain a limit at 1,000 to prevent crawlers from scraping content or overloading the system with traffic.
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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.
90 votesCompleted as part of the 2022 Summon Roadmap.
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Add visibilty of local notes to item detail view
Many libraries add additional notes to MARC records to enhance the findability of items and relevance of search results (e.g., a ToC or chapter listing when not already part of the record). Make these visable to the user.
12 votesThis functionality has been added. To turn on public notes, go to the Admin Console under Settings > Search Results. At the bottom, there are options to “Display eResource Public Notes” and “Display eResource Location Notes”. Change the setting from Default to Custom and set the option to Yes, then scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save.
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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.
103 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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Make citation formats customisable
We would like to be able to customise the Harvard citation format to our house style, and to add custom citation formats to the list.
30 votesCustom citations are now available in Summon as part of the August 2022 release.
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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 votesAs part of the July 2017 release, we added the ability to hover over the preview link or icon to activate the preview pane below the result.
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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.
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Ability to add Google Tag Manager information instead of Google Analytics
Google Tag Manager is a Google Analytics toolf ro managing multiple tags for a single page or site. The ability to add the Google Tag Manager to the institution's site via the admin console.
38 votesCompleted as part of the 2023 Summon Roadmap.
Summon now has both Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager support.
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Add autocomplete to search widget
The widget should make suggestions for words and phrases as the user types into the search box. This should be the same functionality as is present on the default Summon search box.
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Automatically searching for the corrected spelling
Google-like searching using misspellings; automatically searching for the corrected spelling with a link to search the original misspelled terms; current behavior presents results using misspelling and link to search on corrected terms
67 votesThis has been completed as part of the Summon 2021 Roadmap.
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Ability to customize advanced search fields
Ability to turn fields on or off as available from the All Fields drop down.
9 votesCompleted in May 2018
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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 votesWe added this functionality as part of the November 2017 release. You’ll find the controls to enable this in the admin console, under Pages > Custom Panel Sections.
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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 votesAdded to the product in May 2018
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Better Facet controls
The ability to set expand or collapse as default by facet; ability to add facets, remove facets and change facet order
54 votesIncluded in the August 2019 quarterly release
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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.
8 votesRelated items has been added to Summon. Now, when possible, book reviews are associated with the book and are presented in the right hand column
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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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