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  1. 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 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Administrative Tools  ·  Admin →

  2. 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 votes
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    6 comments  ·  User Functionality  ·  Admin →

  3. 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 votes
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    2 comments  ·  User Functionality  ·  Admin →

  4. 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 votes
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    3 comments  ·  User Functionality  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  AdminBrent D. Cook (Director, Product Management, Summon, Ex Libris) responded

    Completed 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.

  5. 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 votes
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    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  6. Include "Research Guides" as one of the available Content Types in the advanced search.

    This was prompted by Alan Cockerill's suggestion in the Summon mailing list for limiting search results to libraries LibGuides by using the "Research Guides" content type. It can be done via post-search faceting, but the advanced search form doesn't show "Research Guides" as a checkbox option for content types. It'd be nice to see that there.

    28 votes
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    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  7. 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 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Integration with other systems  ·  Admin →

  8. Provide an obvious way to return to search results from Saved Items folder

    Currently, in the Saved Items folder, the only way to return to the Summon search results is by clicking on an unmarked X on the right-hand side of the screen. This is confusing to users because there are so many other Xs on the page which remove or clear saved items.

    We suggest providing an obvious way to return to the search results from the Saved Items folder. This may be accomplished by making the browser’s “back” button work or by adding a “Return to Results” link.

    26 votes
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    1 comment  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  9. Summon Advanced Search for Courses and Instructors

    It would be great to have "instructor" and "course" fields as an advanced search for patrons via Summon/Alma, as we currently offer that option as part of Voyager.

    26 votes
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    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  AdminBrent D. Cook (Director, Product Management, Summon, Ex Libris) responded

    In 2018, in addition to the instructor and course facets in Summon/Alma, we added the ability to browse or search by instructor or course. This can be found on a separate course reserves page via a tab at the top of the Summon search results page.

    The page lists all courses by default, but these can be filtered down by typing in your search term.

  10. Full text link

    Must provide full text link PDF in the first result page itself, to click and get for users very easily

    25 votes
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    1 comment  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  11. 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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    1 comment  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  12. WhatsApp, Skype for business available in right pane

    At the moment only a few chat programs can be integrated. I would love to integrate WhatsApp or Skype for Business, or common chat functionalitied in the right pane.
    So the library can use the chat software of the organisation instead of buying edxtra software

    24 votes
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    2 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  13. Display edition and publication year in brief results, for books and ebooks

    I have been told by Ex Libris support that Summon only exposes the edition in the short summary for records that have a content type of 'Book'. This makes it difficult for patrons to determine which edition is the most recent, where both books and ebooks are available. See attached image for an example of how both can be displayed, to reduce confusion.

    24 votes
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    1 comment  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  14. Indicate when content is freely available (but not tracked)

    When searching with 'add results beyond your library's collection' ticked, all non-tracked content is labelled 'Citation Only'. However some of this content is in fact freely available, for example lots of content in institutional repositories.

    Summon should have a way to indicate that content may be freely available even when not tracked, for content in non-tracked open access journals or open repositories. If it's too difficult for Summon to know when something is available, maybe we could have a third label (other than 'full text online' and 'citation only') for content from repositories where there is a high probability of…

    23 votes
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    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  15. 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 votes
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  16. Make new Summon Usage Statistics Dashboard publicly viewable

    There is currently no way to share a dashboard of Summon usage statistics in the new "Current" interface viewable for all users within our institution. Please create a way for Summon administrators to send a publicly viewable link to others at our institution without having to make everyone log in through the Client Center.

    21 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Analytics  ·  Admin →

  17. Stop match and merge for client catalog records.

    We suggest a fully supported, optional, product feature to stop match and merge for client catalog records.

    In the result list of Summon where there are several links to resources, the titles are linked to only one resource, which most of the time is good. However when a print record from the local catalog is merged with an e-book, the link most often lead to the e-book and we have noticed that the print version of the book is very often not noticed by the user. Our library have no e-books in our local catalog so we would very much…

    19 votes
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    3 comments  ·  Administrative Tools  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  AdminBrent D. Cook (Director, Product Management, Summon, Ex Libris) responded

    You can now stop match and merge for your catalog records. In the Summon Admin Console, under Content Ingestion > Catalog Merge Settings, simply drag and drop your catalog from the Include column to the Exclude column. If you have used this feature and have feedback, please send it to us!

  18. Make facets user friendly

    We would like the facets in Summon to work more in the way they do in Primo. In Primo the included or excluded facets are shown above the search results in little boxes with an easy to understand cross to remove them. Similar solutions are used on several database platforms, so our users would recognize how to use the feature without thinking too much.

    In Summon it’s not intuitive to remove a chosen facet. If you have included a facet and want to remove it and you hoover over the text, you are tempted to click on the red dot…

    19 votes
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    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  19. 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 votes
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    1 comment  ·  Administrative Tools  ·  Admin →

  20. 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 votes
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