Summon
Your feedback matters to us. Help us improve Summon, as well as the 360 and Intota administrative services, by telling us what you’d like to see using the message areas below. You can also can support something already posted.
We would love to be able to respond to every idea that is submitted, but this is not feasible. We are, however, committed to responding to the most popular ideas—those that have received the most points.
For more information please review our FAQ and guidelines. Thank you.
15 results found
-
Be able to search Journal/magazine titles consistently
It would be really helpful to search for journal/magazine titles like we do books. Sometimes we need the title not the articles within.
92 votesIf your institution would like to support the ability to search for a journal at the title level, you can contact support and ask for title level MARC records to be added to your instance of Summon.
-
New Acquisitions listing for our library
Our library users have expressed great interest in having access to a New Acquisitions listing for our Library. This would display print books received and eBooks purchased in recent weeks, and would refresh on a regular basis. (It would be a bit different to limiting search results by publication date, as we sometimes purchase older publications).
Considering that we already send our catalogue records to Summon, and that we activate new eBook titles via the Client Centre, could there be an option or a facet in the Summon search interface to provide a listing of our new acquisitions?
We would…
44 votesYou can use the New Records facet to limit to only new content added to your instance of Summon. If you create a search widget (under the hamburger menu in the upper right-hand corner of the screen) and set New Records to either 7, 30 or 90 days, this will limit results to anything recently added to your instance of Summon. You can also limit to just your catalog if you want to have that view as well.
-
Stop match and merge different editions from local catalog
In the local catalog different editions have their own records, and it is important for our users to find the right edition. In Summon sometimes local catalog records merge with other local catalog records so that several editions are shown as one. This makes it difficult for our users to see what edition they are looking at. We would very much like Summon not to merge different catalog records from the local catalog with each other.
37 votesYou can request that your catalog records are excluded from merging. Just go to the Summon Admin Console > Content Ingestion > Catalog Merge Settings. Just drag the catalog you want to be excluded from merging from the Include to the Exclude column and click Save at the bottom. This is an all or nothing setting, so it will impact all catalog records.
-
Add Summon API Usage Reports
My library is using Summon API with other third-party system. I would like to see Summon API usage reports(such as basic searches, sessions, facets etc.) in Summon OBI platform
28 votesYou should be able to go into your admin console for Summon and view your OBI stats. We can only track interactions with the API. If the OBI interface asks for an additional login when you go to access it, close the OBI window and try accessing OBI from the admin console again.
-
Add 'Resource' to the facet menu
To narrow down the Summon result by the valuable resource (database), please add 'Resource' to the facet menu.
21 votesThere is a Database facet that should allow you to do this. Your institution might not have this activated on your search results page.
If this facet does not provide the functionality you desire, please add a new idea and provide more details (such as an example scenario). Thanks!
-
support special needs users
Support special needs users by add new feature within Summon to help students such as Invert color: to invert the screen color contrast for people with difficulty perceiving colors.
customize text-to-speech output for blind people19 votesMost devices have built in support for color inversion or the ability to designate color schemes to meet an end user’s need. We also test our user interface for compliance with text-to-speech readers as well.
We strive for compliance with both VPAT and WCAG standards, and review our standing periodically. If you have feedback on our accessibility support, please open a ticket with our support team and we will address the issue as quickly as possible.
-
360 link customisation
Add the ability to customize the "Sorry, this item is not available onlie. Please use options below to get it:" message in 360 link
11 votesThis text can be customized in the 360 Link Admin Console by editing the 360 Link tab > Custom Text +2.0 > Link 2.0 section > item 30 “No results page default message” text.
-
Request determineing no result when the volume number and author do not match.
When there are no Suppl. on the publisher's page, sometimes 360 Link navigates the wrong article page.
For example, please see the URL below.And it might be more useful for the users if this enhancement will be made.
*Title which is wished to view
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 69(Suppl.A), 5-12, 2000
Pressure-Induced Magnetic Phase Transition of the 5f Electron System URu2Si2 (Frontiers in Magnetism)*navigated title
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 84(6)
Pressure-Induced Antiferromagnetic Transition and Phase Diagram in FeSe9 votesThis should be something we can address currently. Please open a support case.
-
Add the word "Temporary" to the Saved Folder.
The message indicating this folder is temporary pops up for a few seconds (5 or so) and is only shown on the first tab open. Therefore if a user has more tabs open for research they may not know their items are temporary.
8 votesYou can go into the Translations tab in the Summon and change the text to whatever you’d like, including the addition of the word “temporary.”
-
Insert Yewno into Summon Results Screen
Hi, I would like Proquest to include Yewno into Summon.
5 votesWe have worked with Yewno for common customers to provide support needed for configuring Yewno. To include Yewno on the Summon results page, an institution can embed this code in one of the custom panes in the Summon User Interface.
-
Add the option to hide the Widget Builder in hamburger menu.
We're concerned about having these widget builders on the public side.
We'd prefer to offer our faculty code for search widgets with more functionality for embedding in their course materials.
5 votesYou can turn the Widget Builder on or off in the Summon Admin Console. Go to Settings and at the bottom of the first screen of options, there is “Enable Widgets Link”. Switch this to “OFF”.
-
Provide the ability to make a custom title for an ebook or ejournal
Sometimes the titles provided by publishers are messy looking (random capitalizations and punctuation) or the editions are inconsistent (sometimes a number, sometimes spelled out). It would be great to be able to either edit the title or have the ability to add our own custom titles.
4 votesYou should be able to address this via a support ticket. Thanks!
-
Summon search result URLs that are scoped by date
We would like to have Summon search result URLs that are scoped by date, specifically:
Last 12 months
Last 6 months
Last month
Last weekSo we could add these URLs on other web pages.
Thank you!
3 votesWith the addition of the New Records facet as part of the upgrade to the Central Discovery Index (CDI), you can now create links for most of these options.
To create a link for the last 7, 30 or 90 days, complete a search on whatever default term you want (or leave it blank) then select the limit you want from the New Records facet. For the last year, three years, or five years, you can select those under the date picker in the facet pane. You can use this link on any page you’d like.
You can do the same using the Widget Builder under the hamburger menu in the upper right hand corner if you want to embed a search box with one of these limits.
-
"Scholarly & Peer-Review" and "Peer-Review"
The filter "Scholarly & Peer-Review" and just "Peer-Review" are both in the "REFINE YOUR SEARCH" facet. It would be confusing when users want to search for peer-reviewed articles. It should be "Scholarly items" and "Peer-Review."
1 voteYour institution can change the labels or names on this facet currently. Just go into the Summon Admin Console, select “Translations”. If you use your browser search function, you can quickly find the text “Scholarly & Peer Review” and change it to whatever you would like.
-
I wanted to ask whether the possibility of being able to modify proximity search searching has been considered?
We had proximity search settings set in EDS so that words entered in the keyword box had to be within 3 or 4 words of each other, (if I'm remembering correctly). That seemed to be a good happy medium for our users so that phrase searching wasn't needed. It's an adjustment for those used to EDS of now needing to put phrases in quotes, capitalize boolean operators, and this really broad threshold for proximity searching when using Summon.
1 voteThis is the default behavior for Summon relevance. If a keyword is within 5 or less words of each other, the phrase will get a boost. Adding quotation marks means it needs to be an exact match.
- Don't see your idea?