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  1. Public notes to have text formatting including hyperlinks

    Be able to format Public Notes which appear on the Serials Publications list including adding hyperlinked text to provide users with more details.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  User Functionality  ·  Admin →

  2. Search within Summon Admin Console

    The list of features available in the Summon Admin Console has grown large and it can be difficult to find the setting you are looking for. It would be helpful to have a search bar in the navigation bar on the left that searches all the pages and can help locate the desired setting.

    15 votes
    0 comments  ·  Administrative Tools  ·  Admin →

  3. date limiter buttons - keep the end date open rather than automatically entering a value of today's date

    issue with the "quick pick" date limiter options (1 year, 3 years, etc.) - a "hard" end date is set (today's date) which is invisible to the user unless they click the pencil icon, meaning any results with future publication dates will be excluded from the search results. It's really common for journal articles to show a publication date in the future, and the way the date shortcut buttons are configured, any such articles will not be include in the results. We believe this is counter to what users expect when they use date limiters, and in particular the "shortcut"…

    9 votes
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  4. [360 Core & 360 Link] ISSN / ISBN search enhancement request

    For EJP and 360 Link, ISSN & ISBN search is availavle only when the ISSN & ISBN are included on Title Metadata.
    But there are many title's metadata which have only eISSN / eISBN even if title data of each DB has the pISSN / pISBN.
    *Sometimes Title Metadata doesn't have any ISSN/ISBN.

    On Client Center, we can find titles by searching pISBN even if title metadata doesn't have pISBN.
    I think same specification is better on EJP and 360 Link.

    13 votes
    0 comments  ·  360 and Intota  ·  Admin →

  5. Allow admins. to add more links to hamburger menu

    Allow for custom links to be added to the hamburger menu

    102 votes
    Planned  ·  8 comments  ·  Administrative Tools  ·  Admin →

  6. Exclude other libraries' LibGuides from "Add results beyond your library's collections" by default

    The "Add results beyond your library's Collection" facet should by default exclude other libraries' LibGuides so their Circulation, ILL, and other library services LibGuides are not shown to my library's patrons. It is confusing for patrons to search for interlibrary loan only to find dozens of other libraries' LIbGuides.

    81 votes
    Planned  ·  1 comment  ·  User Functionality  ·  Admin →

  7. Better Summon display for serial publications

    In Summon, series titles and volume numbers are not being displayed for publications from monographic series with content type such as ebook, book, and Government Document. To display the series title and volume number, users have to click on the Preview link.

    Users often identify or search series publications by the title and number of the series and not necessarily by the title of the monograph publication within that series. This is particularly true with grey literature or when a publication is being published annually or periodically under the same or very similar title. By not showing this information on…

    101 votes
    Planned  ·  2 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  8. Abilty to customise default search screen

    The default search screen is currently empty other than the search box and our logo. We would like to add some custom content to the screen - e.g. info boxes suggesting some resources to try that are not discoverable in summon or some help guides. also to flag up new resources or future training events (e.g. on how to search summon and ebooks. When we set up Summon last year we were told that it wasn't possible to put any of this info on the default search screen.

    85 votes
    Planned  ·  10 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
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