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Restore the ability to search note fields with Basic Search
We request that the ability to search note fields using basic search be restored as before.
The note fields contain many important keywords to help users encounter the materials they need.6 votes -
No information on the necessity to use parentheses in complex queries on Summon Search Query Help
Currently, there is no information about the necessity to use parentheses in case of more complex search queries in the Summon Search Query help (at least in our library and I was told that the help page is the same around the world). Users who often use Google Scholar as a rule of thumb do not use parentheses because Google works well even without them but in case of Summon, the use of parentheses in more complex queries is essential.
Even on ExLibris Knowledge Center web (page Summon: Phrase, Field, Boolean, Wildcard and Proximity Searching - https://tinyurl.com/2fy5sx2h) it is…35 votes -
MUSIC Content Type in Summon
It would be very helpful if Summon could separate music sound content from audio books/spoken word recordings and even from streaming audio. It would finally allow our music users to be able to limit their searches only to music relevant products.
5 votesFor next year we are planning additions and changes for resource types. We will take this under consideration and will include this as part of that project if possible.
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Add case studies as content type
It would be great if "case studies" to be added as a content type, the same way it's an option on CINAHL and some other Ebsco products. Our nursing and allied health students often have assignments that specifically require them to use case studies, and it's difficult to narrow those down using Summon.
2 votesFor next year we are planning additions and changes for resource types. We will take this under consideration and will include this as part of that project if possible.
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Prioritise published articles over repository content
Where there is a published version of an article in a journal and the same article in our open access repository, we would like Summon to put the published version first in the search results.
This request has come from our academics who are concerned that people are choosing the top result (the pre-publication version in our repository) and missing the published version. This is particularly a problem when the repository version is only available on request or has limited access.
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Would love to be able to change the order of the content types on the left sidebar of the results page
Instead of content type facet displaying the content types with the highest number of results, make it customizable so admin. can decide which ones show (and in which order) in the abbreviated list.
51 votesWe've committed to do the analysis in 2024 for this feature.
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Giving some Ahead of Print citations in Summon a status of Citation Online
To date there is no way to give "Ahead of Print" citations in Summon a status of Citation Online for institutions that do not subscribe to the journal via the publisher's website. For instance, the following citation is listed in Summon:
Sizing Up Skaters: An Interrogation of Body Discourses in Elite Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby
by Draft, Amanda
Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, 02/2017
Permanent Link:
http://duke.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?bookMark=ePnHCXMw42LgTQStzc4rAe_hSmGAHKcDLCD1y4F5JAu0mspUF5SWmMDzvcA-jKkFMEdxAvsmxsCOjJkhB3yFhompBSdDYnBmFbAUVwgtUAjOTgQdOWml4JinAB4wK8pPB7tfIT9NwSk_pVLBJbM4OR-8-kEhM0_BFbSNVwF8FeSjhpnFCm45iSUKwDogOVsBdOR1apGCC9DtwMaYvptriLOHLqxiii-AnPQQD24hGxnHg10eD3I5-CxNY9J1AAAFqlTSFrom Duke University, this links to a "Your initial search query did not yield any results" message in EBSCOhost. This occurs because this article is Ahead of Print content on…
48 votesWe've committed to do the analysis in 2024 for this feature.
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Add Content Type: Yearbook
Suggestion for DC:Type Yearbook to categorize digitized yearbooks.
1 voteFor next year we are planning additions and changes for resource types. We will take this under consideration and will include this as part of that project if possible.
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More cleary identify between full-text articles and full-text abstracts
As an electronic resources librarian, I often get patron-confusion reports when they believe they cannot access a full-text article; often enough the full-text of the article is not available online, but the article's abstract is. Icons in Summon often represent these abstracts as full-text articles.
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