Summon
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ability to add custom announcements to main page of our summon instance
ability to add custom announcements to main page of our summon instance. For example, a planned outage for 360 services
26 votes -
Define content types non-exclusively
Define content types non-exclusively, i.e., allow multiple content type definitions to apply to a single resource -- for example, the same resource might be both a "catalog" and a "book." Defining it as a "catalog" should not mean it is excluded in a search limited to "books."
24 votes -
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 votes -
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.
22 votes -
Add Cite Them Right as option for exporting citations
Cite Them Right is a citation service similar to Citace.com and EasyBib that is gaining popularity. To support individuals and institutions who want this option, we would add this option where other citation services are currently offered in Summon. Institions should be able to choose to turn this on or off as an option. It should be included as an option under the Export To lists found in the menu behind the elipses (...) menu for each search result. It should also be available as an option for Export To in the Saved Items folder.
22 votes -
Make new Summon Usage Statistics Dashboard publicly viewable
There is currently no way to share a dashboard of Summon usage statistics in the new "Current" interface viewable for all users within our institution. Please create a way for Summon administrators to send a publicly viewable link to others at our institution without having to make everyone log in through the Client Center.
21 votes -
Add 'Resource' to the facet menu
To narrow down the Summon result by the valuable resource (database), please add 'Resource' to the facet menu.
21 votes -
Add Mendeley on 'Export to...' drop-down list of reference managers
...instead of using the web importer, just like RefWorks.
21 votes -
Retrieve similar documents using the native 'MoreLikeThis' Lucene feature
Lucene's 'MoreLikeThis' feature retrieves similar documents based on a seed, which can be either a piece of text, or an already retrieved document (syntax-free search).
21 votes -
Google Analytics 4
Dear Summon
It seems Summon has not supported Google Analytics 4(GA4) yet.
Is it possible to update it to support GA4 and a customer can input a code which begins with NOT "UA-" in Summon Admin Console?20 votes -
Indicate when content is freely available (but not tracked)
When searching with 'add results beyond your library's collection' ticked, all non-tracked content is labelled 'Citation Only'. However some of this content is in fact freely available, for example lots of content in institutional repositories.
Summon should have a way to indicate that content may be freely available even when not tracked, for content in non-tracked open access journals or open repositories. If it's too difficult for Summon to know when something is available, maybe we could have a third label (other than 'full text online' and 'citation only') for content from repositories where there is a high probability of…
20 votes -
Add "sent from" box in "email this item."
Currently, if you want to email an item to another person, there is no space to indicate who the sender is.
19 votes -
Make it a higher priority to work with Ebook Central on deduplication, titles missing from Summon etc.
Some Ebook Central titles do not appear in Summon, while others appear multiple times. Some are not linked with the library's print title. Work with Ebook Central to reduce the incidence of these errors.
19 votes -
Licence terms displayed in Summon search results
We would like to see the same functionality in Summon as is currently available in Primo - licence terms being visible in search results within the Summon interface.
As we are on Intota for our ERM, we would want to see Intota licence content linked to Summon search results and displaying there.
18 votes -
Improve holdings display for journals in Summon or turn off catalog details page based on material types
We're looking for ways to improve the way holdings display for journals in Summon.
We're screen scraping Real Time Availability for our books, but our journals just display "Check availability" and link through to the OPAC (because the records have a different structure).
We would like to turn on the catalog details page, but this adds an additional click for users before they can actually see our journal holdings.
For example, here is a journal record in our OPAC (we have print and electronic on the same record):
http://librarycatalogue.griffith.edu.au/record=b1551062~S1and in Summon preview
Whereas the ebook displays a bit…
18 votes -
Facet search results by Custom Database Name
As to Database Facet, it is recommended to facet search results by "Custom Database Name" field instead of default "Database Name" field.
18 votes -
Apply the same tag to multiple Best Bets
We enter our databases as Best Bets and add tags for their title and title variations. There are a few instances where we have multiple collections with similar title variations, such as Joanna Briggs Institute. It would be a great improvement if we could add the same tag to multiple Best Bets and have all of them display when that tag is searched; this would also be more consistent with how our database entries in our 'classic catalogue' can be searched.
17 votes -
Enable Czech Wikipedia within the Czech interface
The users of the Czech user interface would like to be presented with Czech topics from cs wikipedia (https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/) when searches are done in Czech.
17 votes -
Add "Search within journals"
I'd like to cross-search between multiple journals I designate.
There is "Search within a journal," but it's only for one journal. Please add the facet for multiple journals or the function something like that.17 votes -
Scheduling Summon reports
Summon Usage Statistics are accessed via the Summon Admin Console (usage tab). This means a very high-level permission (General Systems Admin) is necessary to access basic reports, statistics and analytics.
Can the Summon OAS instance be joined with the Alma/Leganto OAS instances so that Summon reports can be scheduled? This would allow a wider array of library staff to gather and process Summon usage stats?
Thanks,
Áine17 votes
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