[Wactclc-alma] Highlighting Reference Entries

[Guidry, Wade]

No control with this feature for now, to the best of my knowledge.

I'm sure it's just a term check defined in the Primo VE search code somewhere, that uses heuristics defined by ExL.

Seems like it's a good functional complement to the recommended resources. For specific resources you know you want to point your users to, you can use resource recommender.

And as an additional catch-all, you can do a one-click activation of the highlights feature (assuming you have some of the covered resources activated).



Wade Guidry
WACTCLC
Library Consortium Services Manager
wade at bigbend.edu<mailto:wade at bigbend.edu>
http://www.wactclc.org<http://www.wactclc.org/>
509.760.4474


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I see it now. Apparently I was searching the wrong terms. Do you know if there's a way to control it at all?

Thanks,

Ian King
Reference and Instruction Librarian
Lower Columbia College
(360) 442-2665

I am reading Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action<https://www.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/1591842808> by Simon Sinek

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Ian,

I know at least a couple of institutions have it enabled. (Green River is one. https://sbctc-greenriver.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01STATEWA_GREENRIV:GREENRIVER_V1&sortby=rank . You can search there for 'texas' to see the feature in action.)

The fine print on this feature, though, is the current set of resources for which it works:

"Credo, Encyclopedia Britannica, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Worldbook, Netadvance, and Wikipedia. Others will be added in future."

Unless you have one or more of those resources available in Alma / Primo, the feature won't actually do anything.

The alternative is the Resource Recommender configuration under the Discovery. There you can manually configure key terms and resources to surface when those terms are searched. (I do see that you are already using that option.)

Wade Guidry
WACTCLC
Library Consortium Services Manager
wade at bigbend.edu<mailto:wade at bigbend.edu>
http://www.wactclc.org<http://www.wactclc.org/>
509.760.4474


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All,

Has anyone tried enabling the Highlight Reference Entry on Top option under View Configuration (see image)? According  to the Primo VE 2019 Release Notes, https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Release_Notes/002Primo_VE/0972019/002Primo_VE_2019_Release_Notes, in the Provide Users with an Immediate Topic Overview section, all we need to do is click the checkbox and it should work out of the box. I've been messing with it and doing research off and on since last week and it's not working. I think it'd be a useful tool for students doing background research if we could get it to work.


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Thanks,

Ian King
Reference and Instruction Librarian
Lower Columbia College
(360) 442-2665

I am reading Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action<https://www.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/1591842808> by Simon Sinek

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