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  1. 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 votes
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  2. 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?

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    Already Supported  ·  AdminBrent D. Cook (Director, Product Management, Summon, Ex Libris) responded

    You 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.

  3. 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 week

    So we could add these URLs on other web pages.

    Thank you!

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    Already Supported  ·  AdminBrent D. Cook (Director, Product Management, Summon, Ex Libris) responded

    With 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.

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