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Distinguish between author and editor in Summon results and citations
Before RDA, catalogue records did not clearly distinguish between the author and editor of a work, so Summon could not do this either. We would like Summon results and citations to separate author and editor, where this is possible. This would be particularly helpful when exporting citations to reference manager software such as RefWorks. Currently editors are always imported into the author field. This has caused our users problems as it means their references are inaccurate, unless they notice the problem and manually fix it.
In RDA, terms such as author and editor can be added to the names given…
61 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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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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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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Make Link Out(Summon Direct Linking) statistics of each database available in OBI
We would like to be able to see the click-through (or call it Link Out) usage of each database via Summon IEDL in Summon OBI and the total click-throughs so that we can understand how Summon contributes to the usage of the e-resources we subscribe to.
50 votesIncluded in the August 2019 quarterly release
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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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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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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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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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Improvements to manage larger sets of volatile Best Bets
To manage Best Bets more rigourously I would offer this additional functionality:
a) Export all current best bets to Excel (Much simpler to manage and check for currency outside of admin interface)b) Provide a way to mark all existing Best Bets for deletion with one click so that the updated spreadsheet (from point a) can be imported to Summon without requiring every existing Best Bet to marked for deletion to prevent duplications.
40 votesCan be achieved using the bulk import process.
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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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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.
39 votesCompleted as part of the 2023 Summon Roadmap.
Summon now has both Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager support.
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In search results, make the journal title a link that takes you to a "Search Within the Journal" search page
This would be similar to clicking on the author name to find additional articles by that author, but with the added "search within" capability.
39 votesCompleted May 2018
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filter results by vendor and/or database name
The ability for Summon to filter results by vendor and/or database name (IEEE, ProQuest, Taylor...).
38 votesAs part of the upgrade to the Central Discovery Index (CDI) we added a collections facet that filters by database.
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Fields 530 and 550^i not displaying in Summon for records from Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (database F1W)
I would like to propose that the default settings for the content type=Government document record to be changed. Currently, the default "brief" view does not include the volume/Issue data for content type=government documents. Instead, the Issue field data is located in the Preview section and the client would need to know to click on the Preview button in order to see the volume/issue number. This is not user-friendly or obvious to clients. In particular, this is not working for the display of Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstract records.
36 votesCan be addressed with the new 5xx display functionality. To add 5xx display to your instance of Summon, please open a support case.
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Allow A-Z order for Best Bets admin display
When you have a long list of Best Bets and they don't automatically get ordered alphabetically, the admin work becomes quite unpleasant when editing/removing entries etc.
34 votesCan be achieved using the bulk update proces.
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The publication date filter is currently designed to allow filtering within the last 100 years, insufficient to finding U.S. primary sources
The publication date filter is currently designed to allow filtering within the last 100 years. This is insufficient when trying to limit results to find primary source documents, e.g., related to the U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865.
30 votesThis issue was addressed with the facet improvements in December 2021.
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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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Label peer-review results as such
On the results page, add a label to each entry that is peer-reviewed (like you do for "open access" content).
29 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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Add library location and genre to advanced search options
Several facets are already on the advanced search option screen, but we'd like to see added the library location facet and genre for those that use the advanced search feature regularly.
29 votesCompleted partially as part of the 2022 Advanced Search update for Summon. Library Location is now available as an option on the Advanced Search form.
For Genre, you can still search that as an option at the top of the Advanced Search form, but it is not available in a similar format as Library Location.
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Make Scopus citations live links or change to make clear not live like WoS
We have both Scopus and Web of Science. In Summon the WoS links are live but Scopus is simply a number. However, as they both look the same this leads to users thinking Scopus is not working properly. Can we either have a live link to Scopus or some change in the design to make it clear the Scopus link is nothing more than a number?
28 votesCompleted as part of the July 2017 Release
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