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  1. Allow hyperlinks in the Custom Text feature of the Detail Page

    It would be great to be able to link to a contact form (or other webpage) from text in the Custom Text that can be added to the Detail Page in Summon.

    3 votes
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  2. A more user-friendly way to manage Library Specific Holdings for our print serial

    We would like to see a more user-friendly way to manage Library Specific Holdings for our print serials. Often, our holdings are not continuous; we have gaps in coverage. The only way to add additional dates of coverage is to "Add title" for each date range. 360 then merges the multiple date ranges into one serial record. Having the ability to manage multiple date ranges within one record would be helpful. This system limitation also affects editing. Right now, if you need to edit date ranges for one of these serials, you are only given the option to edit one…

    3 votes
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  3. hamburger

    Currently, our user can change language in the hamburgermenu of Summon.
    We like to have a flag for each language instead of the choice in the hamburgermenu.

    3 votes
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  4. 360 Resource Manager - Contacts

    With many providers moving to URL-based customer support portals, it would be great if the 360 Resource Manager Contacts area had a URL field to record the support portal URLs.

    3 votes
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  5. Integrate Summon with Sierra for Live Catalog Updates and Deletes

    Instead of sending the daily updates/deletes in Sierra catalog, having a process that preform this task instantly will improve the search results immediately and will free library staff to do other pending tasks

    3 votes
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  6. User defined facet

    Please add the feature "User defined facet".

    As Summon over Alma user, we feel current default facets sometimes are not enough to filter library records. For exmaple, there is no way to filter Print Journal. If Summon prepares "User difined facet", we can provide the detailed library records via Summon to our patrons.

    3 votes
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  7. SAML authentication

    We would like to login with SAML through eduGAIN

    There is a "new" interfederated login with SAML through eduGAIN

    Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) is a member of the Swedish Academic Identity Federation – Swamid.
    There are similar solutions for universities around the world.
    Swamid is a member of the Interfederation eduGAIN (https://edugain.org/).

    Our IdP is published through the Swamid Metadata and eduGAIN interfederated Metadata.
    The metadata for the IdP (supplied through Swamid/eduGAIN) is stripped, so it only contains the necessary information for the federated authentication.
    We prefer that all federated authentication and Metadata exchange are handled through…

    3 votes
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  8. Allow merging of duplicate metadata records for newspaper articles prior to January 1, 2000.

    I reported a case of 12 metadata records for the same NYT newspaper article. Search: "carmichael oregon high desert"

    This was the response from support:

    Records with the resource type "newspaper articles" from before January 1, 2000 - CANNOT MERGE.
    Unfortunately it seems that CDI is currently not designed to provide the functionality described.
    The next step is to pursue this as an enhancement.

    3 votes
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  9. Upping the limit of characters in the menu setting

    We would like it if we could up the limit of characters in the menu settings part of the admin tools in intota. Currently the limit seems to be 50 characters.

    3 votes
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  10. Enable search by full DOI URL

    In the E-Journal Portal, it would be helpful to enable lookup by the full DOI URL.
    For example, entering "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpag.2021.01.016" would still search for "10.1016/j.jpag.2021.01.016"

    3 votes
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  11. Filtering Journals based on Indexing like ABDC, ABS, FT 50, Web of Scince, SCOPUS, Both Scopus & WOS

    Filtering Journals based on Indexing like ABDC, ABS, Web of Scince, SCOPUS, Both Scopus & WOS

    As this filter option is necessary for the research scholars & faculty members literature review purposes. They focus on particular category journals for literature search.

    We would appreciate it if you could take forward this suggestion to your development team.

    I will be happy to support & provide the necessary data for this implementation process.

    3 votes
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  12. The ability to edit eBook title and publication year metadata in Summon

    Is it possible to give librarians the ability to edit certain eBook metadata (title, publication year) ourselves in order to improve match and merge functionality. We have so many duplicate records because the metadata from the Summon index is poor, titles and/or publication year are wrong, leading it to not merge with our catalog record. Is it possible to give the control to the Librarians to edit that metadata to allow for less duplicate records without having to put in Support tickets all the time with long lists of duplicate records to fix?

    3 votes
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  13. Availability in Location Items section

    For a journal, each value in the calculated availability is calculated independently, based on the lowest and highest value of the items, even if they do not come from the same items.
    I.E: if we have the following items:
    2022,1 to 2022,4 and 2023,1

    in Summon the availability is displayed with:
    from:1 2022 until:4 2023

    instead of
    from:1 2022 until:1 2023

    We would like change the summary calculation in availability.

    3 votes
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  14. Link Summon to Alma Sandbox

    As Summon over Alma customer, we request Summon Preview Environment is link to Alma Sandbox.
    For example, the link "My Library Account" is linked to "https://.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/account?vid=*****_INST:Services&section=overview&lang=e now.
    However, the link should be going to Sandbox.

    3 votes
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  15. CDI Display Document Attributes

    The "CDI Display Document Attributes" functionality in Primo allows preprints to be labelled. There is an ongoing problem in Summon where aggregators and publishers use the same electronic collections but provide a different level of access. Especially with preprints - which look like broken links because aggregators dont provide them but they are included in results because publishers do.

    This functionality could identify preprints so users would have a better idea of why they can't access them.

    Can this functionality please be made available to Summon users?

    3 votes
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  16. Limit purchase request by material type

    At present, purchase requests cannot be limited by material type, e.g. users can request that we purchase ebooks but not ejournals. I think this could be achieved with Display Logic.
    Can this functionality please be added?

    3 votes
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  17. Provide the ability to separate journals and ejournals when searching

    Similar to Sophia Birden's idea for books and ebooks, currently I do not think there is a way to separate journals and ejournals without clicking the full-text limiter for the electronic.

    3 votes
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  18. Provide ability to make a link to Advanced Search with pre-selected facets

    I would like to be able to provide a URL to the advanced search page and have the English language facet preselected.

    3 votes
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  19. Report version of Data Summary Dashboard

    We love the Data Summary Dashboard in 360 Services. We use it for IPEDs. The only way to access it is by going into the Client Center manually. So we have to remember to go to this screen precisely on July 1st each year.

    It would be great if we could have this summary information automatically reported out monthly to specified email addresses.

    (For Data on Demand you can only print out title lists. You have to count them manually.)

    3 votes
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  20. More flexibility for the Reserve Button

    We would like to suggest an enhancement request to allow more flexibility for the Reserve Button link to allow its link to target a specific holds/reservation functionality for a specific record ID.

    In particular, we use the Koha Library Managament System so would greatly welcome an API integration between Summon and Koha, similar to the Sierra via Summon integration, as detailed here:

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Summon/Product_Documentation/Configuring_The_Summon_Service/020Configurations_within_the_Summon_Administration_Console/Summon%3A_Sierra_via_Summon_Integration

    3 votes
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