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  1. How Online Learning is Transforming Career Development

    The ability to adapt and learn new skills has become a necessity in today’s job market. UNICCM offers industry-specific courses that equip learners with practical knowledge and certifications. Online education makes professional development achievable, even for those with demanding schedules. Many professionals use online courses to boost their credentials and increase their chances of career progression. Employers value employees who proactively seek to improve their expertise, as it leads to better decision-making and job performance. Enrolling in a structured learning program can be a powerful step toward professional success. https://www.uniccm.com

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  2. South Asian Chicken Cuisines Idea To Follow

    South Asian cuisines offer rich flavors, blending aromatic spices with tender meat. The chicken tikka recipe masala is a must-try dish known for its smoky taste. Marinated in yogurt with tasty spices and then grilled to perfection, this dish is a worldwide favourite. enjoy it with naan or fragrant basmati rice for an genuin experience. Other south asian's food like butter chicken, chicken korma, and tandoori chicken also showcase the region’s diverse culinary heritage. Trying them with tasty homemade spice blends can help you charge your cooking game. Follow the below link for these ideas to create restaurant-quality dishes at…

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  3. Does Spice Indian Cuisine in Ontario Offer the Best Indian Food? 🍛🔥

    If you're a fan of fresh delicious Indian food, you’ve probably heard of Spice Indian Cuisine in Ontario. But does it truly offer the best Indian dishes in town? Let’s dive into what makes this restaurant a must-visit!

    A Menu Full of Flavors
    The Spice Indian Cuisine menu in Ontario offers a wide range of authentic dishes, from rich and ****** curries to smoky tandoori delights. Whether you're a fan of spicy, tangy, or mild flavors, there's something for everyone!

    Must-Try Dishes at Spice Indian Cuisine
    🍢 Delicious Starters for a Dinner Party – Their appetizers are a perfect way…

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  4. Iron On Patches Services In Ireland

    We are known as the top leading online iron on patches services in Ireland because we never compromise with the quality and always deliver the services on time that's why we have a good reputation in the market.
    https://www.embroideredpatches.ie/iron-on-patches

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  5. Would like to see more options

    Great initiative! I'd love to see more options e.g., advanced search filters, integration with X platform etc. This would significantly improve my research workflow.

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    https://kbfashion.net

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  6. Retain special characters in 245 subfields

    It would be nice if Summon was able to selectively retain special characters in the title mapping field, for example 245$p. It currently strips special characters such as brackets [] from these fields. We use brackets in our $p field for certain reasons and it would be nice if Summon would leave them in when displaying the Title fields.

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  7. Display of "Public All Titles Note"

    For the Publication Finder displayed in Summon Custom Panels, I would like to see the contents of the “Public All Titles Note” set in the Data Management page of the 360 Core Client Center.

    2 votes
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  8. add more subject and sub-subjects to EJP

    add more subject and sub-subjects to EJP like Social Media, AI, Hospitality an& Tourism, Graphic Design, Interior Design, ........

    6 votes
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  9. Include a mapping field for indexed names and titles

    Added entries in a MARC 7xx field should have their own Summon Field Name and be displayed in the preview and detail page. This is a basic need for music and sound recordings which often contain several titles by multiple people. Users will then be able to click on the indexed name or title in the display page and search for other resources containing it.

    10 votes
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  10. The ability to edit eBook title and publication year metadata in Summon

    Is it possible to give librarians the ability to edit certain eBook metadata (title, publication year) ourselves in order to improve match and merge functionality. We have so many duplicate records because the metadata from the Summon index is poor, titles and/or publication year are wrong, leading it to not merge with our catalog record. Is it possible to give the control to the Librarians to edit that metadata to allow for less duplicate records without having to put in Support tickets all the time with long lists of duplicate records to fix?

    3 votes
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  11. Index eBook content directly from publishers?

    Index eBook content directly from publishers. There seems to be more and more eBook titles from many of our collections that are not available in the Summon Index. Is there a way to get this metadata from other sources like directly from the publishers so that the ebooks will show in Summon without having to dump the records in from the catalog to get it in there?

    2 votes
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  12. Display multiple editions of a title in order, most recent first.

    Multiple editions of a title often display in the Summon search results in a seemingly random order. Different editions of the same title should display in a logical order with the most recent edition first. We have reported countless instances of this behaviour over the years and are told that it is unfixable due to the quality of metadata.

    Summon should link different editions of a title together so it can display them in a logical order. As Summon will not always be able to do this accurately, give customers a way to edit and improve the data so we…

    3 votes
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  13. Allow merging of duplicate metadata records for newspaper articles prior to January 1, 2000.

    I reported a case of 12 metadata records for the same NYT newspaper article. Search: "carmichael oregon high desert"

    This was the response from support:

    Records with the resource type "newspaper articles" from before January 1, 2000 - CANNOT MERGE.
    Unfortunately it seems that CDI is currently not designed to provide the functionality described.
    The next step is to pursue this as an enhancement.

    3 votes
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  14. Can Authentication Banner URL open in a new window?

    Since we use this banner url to guide users to VPN Help Page, it would be more convenient to let Authentication Banner URL open in a new window.

    1 vote
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  15. Accurate date of publication

    Some times we have unclear publication date for a book, and in such case, we set eg.[19--] at 260$c in Alma.
    Summon calculates it to 1900 and displays it at result page. We would like to display it as 260$c without no change.
    Also eg.[201-] and Kanji notation [明治頃] as well.

    Thank you very much for your cooperation.

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  16. Content Ingestion report - internal processing error

    I think it would be useful if the record ID was included in this report so that we know which records are missing from summon.
    At present this just seems like a black box; we have no idea what the problem is, how it is resolved and when/if it is resolved.

    7 votes
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  17. Stop indexing Ebsco "abstract" results so they no longer appear in Summon "Full-Text" Results with broken links

    One persistent problem we have between Summon and EBSCO is abstracts indexed as articles in Summon. Some journals index these abstracts as individual titles, which is why they get pulled into Summon as standalone full text articles, but EBSCO (which is where we have full text) does not index them at all. So not only does the openURL break, if you search for them in EBSCO you often get zero hits. Since we have so much full text in EBSCO, this accounts for a good many of our bad urls in Summon and it is frustrating and confusing for librarians…

    98 votes
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  18. Do not allow Book Chapter and Journal Article records to match and merge with each other

    When the Book Chapter facet is applied, in multiple searches the majority of top results listed appear as Journal Article format. My understanding is that this is because Journal Articles an Book Chapters are allowed to match and merge, specifically in order to allow merging of serial monographs. However, many of the top results do not appear to be serial monographs, but actual journal articles. This is confusing for users, and the merges may be causing more frustration than good.

    7 votes
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  19. Match & Merge Duplicates in Video Type

    Match & Merge duplicates in the video Type. They don't do it because "there hasn't been much duplication in video." Well, we have some and they won't merge them. Ideally we should have no duplicates in any type.

    1 vote
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  20. Keeping stop words as part of phrase searching

    Currently, there is a limitation to phrase searching in that if a stop word appears at the end of a phrase it is dropped. This has greatly affected gender studies researchers specifically, in that the phrase "coming out" is unable to be searched - as "out" is considered a stop word in English. If a researcher is conducting a phrase search, what is included within the quotations should be searched. The idea is that phrase searching should conduct searches on what is within paragraphs regardless of stop words.

    27 votes
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