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Add "Apply" button at the bottom of the facet selection window
Add another "Apply" button at the bottom of the facet section on the left of the Summon screen along with the current location (found at the top of the facet selection).
Users have a habit of not applying facets because they forget that they must apply the changes at the top. Typically most "apply" buttons are found at the bottom of filter/facet selections.
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Make Summon support Baidu for search history function
Summon added search history function on May release 2018, which is great. The data is stored in Google. Unfortunately, Google is not working in China. so could you add the capability of supporting Baidu (the largest search engine vendor in China)?
Baidu supports oauth 2.0. Here is the online doc:
24 votesWe have now added SAML support for Saved Searches, and your patrons can store their searches on Ex Libris servers (rather than on Google Drive or MS OneDrive).
While this isn't specifically Baidu support, it is an authentication process that should work in any region.
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Altmetric Filter and the ability to sort search results with Altmetric Score
As often said, Altmetric does not necessarily indicate the absolute value of a paper.
However, Altmetric is an effective indicator for initial scholars to find interesting papers out of a large amount of search results.
Through Summon, if users can easily search for documents with Altmetric granted, more use and effect will be expected.14 votesOur current integration with Altmetrics does not support this at this time.
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Publication date slider or histogram
Please would it be possible to have the option to choose between the existing slider or a histogram/graph for refining Summon search results by their publication date?
13 votesAt this time, all implementations for a histogram or graph adds significant calculation time to the rendering of the page. The amount of time this adds to the page loading can cause users to think the system is having performance issues or just time out and not render.
We will continue to review possible solutions for this as either different options are available or improved system performance allows for inclusion.
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Filter search results by original research and review article
To be able to filter search results by original research and review article category from Summon search facet.
6 votesWith the addition of secondary resource types, these labels are no longer valid and have been replaced.
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Display more than 1000 records in a result
This is the most requested improvement from our faculty and graduate students. They find it frustrating that they are not able to view more than 1000 of the results.
1 voteSummon does not allow for deep paging into search results for a variety of reasons including:
1. Performance—multiple deep queries at the same time could easily overwhelm the system or allow for a Denial of Service attack.
2. Protecting content—as part of our role as stewards of the Summon Index, we need to ensure the entire contents of the index are not available for bots or other unwanted traffic to extract or mine all metadata from the index.Using facets the user should be able to reduce the number of results into less than 1000 result chunks.
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