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Display the Edition metadata in the reading list view
Current the reading list title, author(s) and publication date are displayed in a reading list. The user needs to click on the title to see the remaining metadata information, such as Edition. This is an idea to also display the Edition data (if available) in the reading list view. Exposing the edition data at a glance would be useful to the student, as well as the list owner. It would help to keep the list up to date, and assist with list auditing and quality checking.
22 votesThe new list view now displays the Edition information in the front screen. This resolves the initial idea that was raised.
For those interested in the Editors showing this is currently in beta and detail can be found in this idea, please do add your votes to this so we can help you keep up to date on this: http://ideas.talis.com/forums/32805-talis-aspire-reading-lists/suggestions/9766701-include-editor-in-the-front-screen-list-view
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RESTful API
Allow requests for simple return of list, section and item titles and urls via json.
Intended to allow finer grain integration with VLE similar to that demoed by Sussex, but without relying on web scraping:
http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/elearningteam/2013/12/10/integrating-reading-lists-talis-aspire/
This would get the reading list content out of an iframe and into the html of the page, and allow the VLE theme to take consistent control of the display of the reading list material.
Also allows for innovation by the VLE maintainers with relation to the adding and viewing of reading lists.
Acknowledge potential issues with metrics capture Aspire side, but highly value…
6 votesWe have now implemented RESTful API’s and you can see the full range here: https://talis.github.io/aspire-apis/
If you need support with using these please let us know via our support site.
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Changes to student numbers visible in review history
As lists are now being resubmitted for the next academic year, student numbers on modules are changing, and that means we may need to purchase more copies of books. At the moment we can't see if student numbers have gone up from within Talis - we have to log each reading list in a spreadsheet and check this every time. If changes to student numbers were visible in the review history, this would make our workflow much more streamlined and we wouldn't need the spreadsheet workaround.
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Have a "global" or "select multiple" option for completing reading lists.
We are currently set for receiving lists for review every time changes are saved. As our copyright team are working through, we have 500 lists coming into our review screen all of which need to be completed for rollover, but that we don't need to actually do any work on. If we could select these and "complete all selected" this would be much faster - at the moment we're going into each one individually, which is taking a lot of time.
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Pending Digitised Content Requests to display in Review list
While a list is been reviewed it will be good to have an extra column in Review lists, where the pending digitisation requests could display. This will make the reviewer aware that there is a pending digitisation request instead of placing the book in a Reserve Collection.
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Customise options available for bib export
Maybe not an entirely new idea, but we'd like to be able to customise the drop-down list of export options for lists. Our users do not have access to RefWorks, so that's one option that we would remove.
2 votesWe have now removed the customised drop down for bibliographic export so that the option is to download the ris file and then upload into the bibliographic software of choice.
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Ability to filter on 'Lists Reviewed' within the All Lists report
As we are beginning to start planning for 2014/15 reading lists, we are trying to establish an effective method for tracking whether a list has been Reviewed or not.
The All Lists report has all the other fields required for such a report - is it possible for you to add:
'List Reviewed' = Yes / No as a filter on this report, Show the 'Review Status' as well show the 'Last Reviewed date' in the report so that we could manage Reviews more effectively?Annette Moore
University of Sussex6 votes -
Allow the images of book covers to appear in the actual reading list
In the detailed display there is a small image of the book. One of our student reps is asking for this to be displayed in the actual list as a visual prompt to the book they should be reading. Given we have dyslexic students and many in design related subjects who are visual learners, the more visual the lists could be the better.
10 votesThis is now available in the new list view.
If you would like to see further enhancements please raise a new idea.
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Ability to archive multiple completed reviews
In "All Reviews" the option to archive multiple completed reviews rather than, at present, one at a time
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Additional reports: list and item usage statistics
We would like to suggest two additional reports for the Reports menu that would provide list and item usage statistics globally across departments and modules with the aim of demonstrating the value of reading lists and impact on item usage. One report for Page views and one for Item Views.
Key fields we would like to see included are; page view (main list page), module code, module title, department, the number of students on the course, number of items on a list and for Item Views the item format.
54 votesList and item usage stats are now available through Advanced Management Information System (Advanced MIS). If you would like to know more than please reach out to your Account Manager. https://support.talis.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006213238-Talis-Aspire-Advanced-MIS-Overview
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Include the author in All List Items reports
We would find it really useful to include the author in the All List Items report. Not all items on the current report include an ISBN which means it can be difficult to work out which item is required for books with common titles and without having to constantly check back to the original record on Aspire.
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Unit codeshown in review screen
Colleagues new to reviewing taking advantage of the direct link to ordering would like a visual cue for this it would simplify the ordering process.
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Make the OpenURL link for articles optional
The OpenURL link will only work successfully for articles which are found in your electronic journal subscriptions. For articles which are in open access journals or in your print collection, the OpenURL link will always fail, which may lead your students to believe they cannot access the article.
Make the display of the OpenURL link for articles optional so it can be suppressed for open access, print or other articles which will not be found via your link resolver.
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Streamline route through to online books, journals etc.
Clicking on a title of an item takes users to a page about that resource rather than the resource itself. For online items this is a pain and I've seen staff and students be completely put off by this (especially when most of the list contains online items). They don't notice the 'online resource' button to the right of the screen. They think it's an icon not the shortcut link they're looking for. I would much prefer the 'view in library catalogue'/ability to add notes etc. page to be the secondary link. This type of info should open in a…
8 votesWith New List View we have removed the Item page and all information about the resource is within the list itself, making navigation far smoother.
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Don't limit bookmarks search to first 250 items
In list edit, if you use the search function to find a bookmark it will only search within the first 250 boomarks. If you have many hundreds of bookmarks your need to scroll through many pages of bookmarks to find the one you need. This is very time consuming for people with hundreds or thousands of items bookmarked.
The search function should search ALL your bookmarks not just the first 250.
6 votesWe declined this idea back in 2015 but as part of the New List Edit refresh we have been able to tackle this by the adding of the Quick Add feature into the list itself and the bookmark results are not limited by 250 anymore.
If you’ve not yet seen the New List Edit or the Quick Add feature do raise a support ticket.
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Bulk assign a set of reviews to a reviewer
There is no way to bulk assign a set of reviews to a reviewer. For example if you add 12 ebooks to different modules and publish the lists, you will then need to assign all these lists for review so you can review the item and close the review. This will flag that the list does not need attention. At the moment you need to filter by requested review and unassign then assign the book to yourself for each book.
This takes time. It would be better if there was a check box on the screen so you could select…
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Student Number column in the All Lists reports
It would be incredibly useful for an additional column to be provided in the All Lists reports for 'Student Number' in the way that we currently have 'Item Count'.
This would mean we could view how many students were being catered for by the Talis Lists in varying time periods / schools / etc.
Currently the only way to gain a snapshot of student numbers for a defined set of lists is to go in to each list manually and pull the information out one at a time.
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music score
Add music score to resource type
11 votesMusic Score is now available as a resource type in Talis Aspire.
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Display of chapters
When we add specific chapters to lists we'd like the title of the book as well as the title of the chapter to be automatically included in the display. We currently manually edit entries to include both, for example.
The Reformation Parliament, IN: Parliament and politics in Scotland, 1235-1560 - K. M. Brown
This think would make it easier for students to identify the chapter when browsing a list75 votesThis is now available in the new list view.
If you would like to see further enhancements please raise a new idea.
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Delete list in draft
We'd like to be able to delete draft lists without first having to publish them
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