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Video spotlight treatment
A rollup of video content, with any video results removed from the main results set and presented in a spotlight. The spotlight would present the top 3 to 5 results with thumbnails and descriptions, with a "more" link to see all video results.
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Add the ability to accept online payments, for example fines, via WPM on Summon over Alma
Currently there is no option to accept online payments with instances of Summon over Alma (unlike Primo over Alma). This ability would enable us to improve our self service functionality.
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Expanding the Credo content connected to records used by Summon Topic Explorer.
Credo has content that should be showing up in the Topic Explorer box, but it's not because that content isn't connected to the records Summon searches for Topic Explorer content.
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Show DVD covers in search results
Summon should show DVD covers as well as book covers in search results.
Syndetics (and other content providers) have DVD content and covers available but this does not display in Summon. Summon should send EAN and UPC numbers to Syndetics as well as ISBNs to enhance the search results with DVD information.
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Customize Content Type facet to display content from specific publications
We received the following request from a teaching librarian today:
Is it possible for all of the articles in the publication Government Finance Review to show up under the Trade Publications limiter in Summon?
It seems like it would be a good feature to make this customizable at the institution level.
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Add sorting functionality to the Summon Course Reserves Citation List Display
When Alma Course Reserves lists are displayed in Summon, there does not appear to be any order to the citations listed, making it very hard for patrons to find the citation they are looking for in that course. We would like to see the option added to determine the default sort of the display (alphabetical by title, alphabetical by author, date added, etc) AND the ability for users to resort the list themselves if the default sorting doesn't suit their needs.
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Allow publishers ability to search their content in Summon
Publishers whose content is uploaded into Summon should be able to view how these records look from a librarian's perspective. Can a publisher receive some sort of admin account for this? This would make answering our accounts' questions about our records much simpler.
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Add more journal platforms (American College of Physicians) to Resource Link Prioritization List in Summon
This could go with other journal titles as well. Our institution subscribed to 2 titles through American College of Physicians with pretty extensive holdings. The titles can also be found via our subscription to ProQuest, but with more limited holdings. When users search for a title in Summon, they will only see the ProQuest holdings and then be told we do not carry the resource. I think adding more individual platforms to Resource Link Prioritization list will fix this. Thanks!
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Label Kind of Open Access item linked to
Identify the kind of open access version being linked to -- preprint author submitted copy, same-as-published, post-print, etc. While it may not always matter if the open version of a published work is the same as the peer-reviewed, published version, when it does matter, it can be critical -- especially in health sciences. But it's also important for novice researchers to understand what is "almost published" and what was actually reviewed and published.
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add subject and abstracts columns in the upload template
we have some library specific databases for information not available yet (no agreements with the publisher etc.). The titles in these databases have no subject or abstract information. It would be great when this information could be added. (add subject and abstracts columns in the upload template)
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Show unreceived orders in Summon
At the moment, items ordered in Alma are not displayed in Summon until they have been received by the library. We need lecturers and students to be able to follow the progress of requests they have made or check whether we have already ordered a book before requesting it.
Alma sends to Summon the following Availability information:
The status field ( AVA subfield code e) is used to display availability in Summon:<datafield tag="AVA" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
<subfield code="0">991001800998706551</subfield>
<subfield code="8">2238289780006551</subfield>
<subfield code="a">353MIC_INST</subfield>
<subfield code="b">MICL</subfield>
<subfield code="c">General Lending, Limerick</subfield>
<subfield code="d">820.9'008</subfield>
<subfield code="e">unavailable</subfield>
<subfield code="f">1</subfield>
<subfield code="g">1</subfield>
<subfield code="j">MGEN</subfield>…3 votes -
Have the ability to change from OR to AND in the list of subjects
Right now, unless something has changed, when we use the Subjects list to apply additional terms, the OR statement is automatic and there is no alternative. However, that is not necessarily how a student thinks when selecting Subjects. There are many times one will want to have more than one subject term added to the search with an AND statement.
So, for example, if I am looking at "emergency nursing" and I see in the subjects list "hospitals" and "health policy & services" I may want both terms in my search not either.
If it's doable, it would be nice…
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searching az list click on database - no list of your titles
we now use SFX and on the a z-list, our users can click on vendor (= database name) and then see all titles within this selection. pe click on sage and then see all your active sage titles.
We will shortly switch to 360 core client centre (and stop with sfx) We now do not see on the front on the new a-z list ejournals this functionality.
Our users miss this3 votes -
Do not allow eBook and Computer File records to match and merge with each other
There are CDI records, largely listed as eBooks but they seem to be merging with other catalog records with the 'Computer File' content type.
The result is that e-books are displayed as computer files via the filter.
This is confusing for users, and the merges may be causing more frustration than good.
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Allow hyperlinks in the Custom Text feature of the Detail Page
It would be great to be able to link to a contact form (or other webpage) from text in the Custom Text that can be added to the Detail Page in Summon.
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A more user-friendly way to manage Library Specific Holdings for our print serial
We would like to see a more user-friendly way to manage Library Specific Holdings for our print serials. Often, our holdings are not continuous; we have gaps in coverage. The only way to add additional dates of coverage is to "Add title" for each date range. 360 then merges the multiple date ranges into one serial record. Having the ability to manage multiple date ranges within one record would be helpful. This system limitation also affects editing. Right now, if you need to edit date ranges for one of these serials, you are only given the option to edit one…
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hamburger
Currently, our user can change language in the hamburgermenu of Summon.
We like to have a flag for each language instead of the choice in the hamburgermenu.3 votes -
360 Resource Manager - Contacts
With many providers moving to URL-based customer support portals, it would be great if the 360 Resource Manager Contacts area had a URL field to record the support portal URLs.
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Integrate Summon with Sierra for Live Catalog Updates and Deletes
Instead of sending the daily updates/deletes in Sierra catalog, having a process that preform this task instantly will improve the search results immediately and will free library staff to do other pending tasks
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User defined facet
Please add the feature "User defined facet".
As Summon over Alma user, we feel current default facets sometimes are not enough to filter library records. For exmaple, there is no way to filter Print Journal. If Summon prepares "User difined facet", we can provide the detailed library records via Summon to our patrons.3 votes
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