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Enable "Share item" for List Publishers / editors - New List View/Edit
At present, if you are a List Publisher / in edit mode in the new List View/Edit, you don't have the option to 'share' an item from the drop down menu / ellipsis when you're in a list. See my screenshot "No Share".
The only way you can bring this up is if you go to View > As Student, and then the option to Share the item is visible. See my screenshot "Yes Share".
It is primarily list editors and academics who need to share items, particularly with the library if there is a broken link or the content…
15 votesThis is now completed and you care share items within the New List Edit view.
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Number of items count to (new) list view
The old list view had a count of the number of items appearing on the reading list in the top left hand corner of the list. This was a useful feature and we note it is not available in the new list view. Could it be returned?
9 votesWe have added back in the number of items on a list along with further break down of the number of item types on a list.
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Sorted list of time periods when running reports
We have a substantial number of academic time periods each year, so we now have a list of 76 time periods for the years 2014 - 2018 and will shortly add another 17 for 2019.
When using All Lists or All List Items reports, it's possible to limit the report by time period, but the time periods are not displayed in any discernible order and it's very difficult to use this field as a filter in any practical way.
We would like to be able to order the time periods in the drop down list:
(a) in the same or…8 votesWe have introduced an improvement to the time period filter on the All Lists and All List Items reports. When you click on the time period filter to select your time periods, time periods will now display in alphabetical order.
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All List Items report to include url from 'is part of' section
We often have bookmarks for book chapters where the url to the book as a whole is entered into the 'is part of book' section, without a separate url to the book chapter entered into the chapter section. This is done as it is sometimes not possible to link directly to a chapter. In these cases, we add a student note along the lines of "Please read pages 57-69".
In the All List Items report, DOI fields that are present in the 'is part of' section are included (though not in a separate field), but the url present in the…
10 votesWe have made changes to the All List Items report to include the url from the "Is part of’ section. https://support.talis.com/hc/en-us/articles/205717002-All-List-Items-Report
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Expand list of academic disciplines and/or make the list customizable
Expand list of academic disciplines and/or make the list customizable.
We have received a request to add Built Environment to the list as there is no equivalent discipline available
4 votesTalis Aspire Reading Lists (TARL) – Profile screen in Talis Aspire Reading Lists no longer asks for ‘Main Discipline’, this was based on feedback, that it didn’t cover enough variation or localisation on subjects. As it wasn’t mandatory, no meaningful trends could be gleamed from the data available so we decided this was no longer adding value and have therefore removed. We will keep an open watch on this to see the feedback that we get from this being removed.
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Make the publish button more visible
A lecturer has said that it would be useful to have the publish button more visible on the list (when not editing). Could we have a separate button for publishing rather than going to edit and publish?
4 votesThe Publish button is now in its own banner at the top of every list making it clearer what the status of the list is and how to publish it.
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"Link To" value included in All Items Report
Could the Link To value be included in the All Items Report i.e. either blank, DOI, OpenURL or Web Address.
This would really simplify our metadata checking, particularly for improperly formed URLs through EZproxy, but also for confirming our preferred linking method is being used by academic staff.
An example would be if we moved a journal subscription to a new platform - we could filter the All Items Report CSV on Journal title (or ISSN) and DOI or Web Address (confident that OpenURL would manage the platform change external to Talis)>
21 votesWe have introduced extra fields into the All Items Report to allow you to identify the "link to’ addresses that are used. https://support.talis.com/hc/en-us/articles/205717002-All-List-Items-Report
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add a 'back to top' link in a reading list.
To help with long lists instead of a cumbersome long scroll back up.
11 votesWe're pleased to announce the release of a new feature that users had asked for. When viewing a reading list and starting to scroll down the list, we now have a ‘Back to top’ button that will allow users to jump to the top of the page with one click.
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Saving bookmarks before deleting items in new list view
It would be useful to have the 'add to my bookmarks' function on the edit view, so that you can save the bookmark in case of later need on that view before deleting an item from the list.
Currently, to save the bookmark you need to be in the published view and then switch to the edit view to delete the item. It would be useful to have this all available in edit when working on lists which have been added without bookmarks already in place.
2 votesIt is now possible to save an item “Add to my bookmarks” from the edit view of a list before you remove from the list.
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Include edition field in item reports
The all items report includes most of the metadata that belongs to an item, but does not include the edition statement. Doing so would make it possible to see at a glance what items are added to lists and how they are formatted - identify edition statements in words, for example, which have implications for reference formatting. The editions functionality in reviews does something different, and does not allow you to create reports like this. Given how few fields there are in item records, we should be able to report on all of them.
2 votesWe have released a change to the All List items report export, you can now view the following data:
Edition
This will help you identifying editions used in reading lists across your tenancy.
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Include call number and location of item on one interface for students
At the moment, the only way to see a call number of a book (if we have it of course) is to click on the item, taking us away from the long list or resources. This addition may encourage more lecturers to use Talis as all the relevant item location information will be available on one interface, making it then suitable for printing. Just a quick idea I had after a reading list meeting.
3 votesThis is now available in the new list view, which is ready for rollout in your university. All information about a resource is available within the list itself without the need to click into a separate screen.
Recommended steps to rollout the new list view at your University – https://support.talis.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000008189-Recommended-steps-to-rollout-the-new-list-view-at-your-University
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Add customisation to "Library Availability" section
The Library Availability section of the item details page has fixed headers. (Collection, Shelf Mark, Availability.) We would find it very useful to be able to customise these headers to match our in-house terminology to give a consistent user experience. Specifically, we'd like to be able to use the term "Classmark" rather than "Shelf Mark".
More generally, this may be useful to match terminology to different LMSs, so that institutional terminology can kept consistent across systems.
1 voteIn the new list view we have removed the terminology related to shelf mark and only the availability shows. This will help with the idea that you have raised.
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Date item added to the reading list to be visible in Reviews 2.0
While this is not crucial to our workflows, we have regularly found the date within the “added column” useful information. We realise that the list within 2.0 automatically sorts with the most recent items at the top, but the date added has in the past provided useful contextual information.
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Automatically bookmark videos as "Online Resources"
During our pilot phase, we've noticed that when academics add YouTube or BoB videos to their lists, they generally forget to tick the "Online Resource" box - possibly because they are used to it happening automatically when they bookmark, e.g., articles and ebooks.
It would be useful if online videos could be automatically recognised as "Online Resources" by the bookmarking tool.
At present this does not happen because "audio-visual document" resource type can include, e.g., DVDs listed on a Library catalogue (not an online resource). However, could there not be a workaround similar to the one for ebooks (see: http://support.talis.com/hc/en-us/articles/205644351-How-the-Online-Resource-button-works…
20 votesWe have introduced an improvement when bookmarking audiovisual items. Previously the 'Online Resource' box was not automatically ticked when a user bookmarked an item with a URL (eg a YouTube video), so items often needed to be manually corrected. Now when a user bookmarks these items, if a URL is detected, then we will automatically tick the box, ensuring that a View Online button appears when the item is added to a list.
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Search by item
It would be really useful for librarians doing stock work to be able to search Aspire by item to see if an item they are reviewing is on a reading list.
Such a search feature may also be useful to academics wanting to check they have a particular item on any of their lists without having to search each list.
7 votesWe have introduced three new filters on the All List items report which should make it easier to search for and report on specific works, Title, ISBN-10 and ISBN-13.
If this is still something you feel would benefit academics than please do raise a new idea.
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Null read status
We have had student feedback that if they accidentally set a Read Status, the available options (Will read/Reading now/Have read/Won't read) are not always applicable. We would like the option to be able to revert back to a 'null' read status.
3 votesThis has been resolved with the new list view. A student can change their reading intentions back to ‘undecided’ which is the default state.
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Only cross-reference Books in "View Breakdown" Reviews 2 - or display the Material Type
The “View Breakdown” figures should only cross-reference Books that appear on other lists.
It should not cross-reference resources that have been created as Chapters.From an acquisitions perspective, books are treated very differently to chapters.
If only a chapter is needed, it can be scanned and the digitised reading provided to the students at a low cost.
If the entire book is needed, we will purchase the required number of copies.
The View Breakdown tool cross-references books that appear on other lists AND chapters (with the same ‘parent’ ISBN) – without making any visible distinction between the two. This means…
13 votesWe have added Resource type(s) to the ‘Student no.:’ – ‘View Breakdown’ screen within Reviews as a consultancy request from London School of Economics. It was felt others may find this a useful addition so has been enabled for all tenancies.
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Reviews 2 - Make "All instances of this item" the default view in the item pane
“All instances of this item” should be made the default view, when looking at the review history notes within each item in Reviews 2.
This cross-list functionality where the Acquisitions team can see each other’s review notes is one of the improved aspects of Reviews 2.
Being able to view notes on "All Instances of this item" saves time, particularly with multiple lists submitted for review by the same owner, where there is considerable crossover of the same texts appearing on different lists, and the Acquisitions decision has already been made.
Having it as the default view, instead of just…
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digitisations
Can we change the wording in reading lists for digitised readings to 'PDF' rather than 'digitisation" and 'click here to get pdf' rather than
'To view the digitised content for this item please log in'.
I dont think some people understand the word digitisation and that they have to click on that to see the reading. Today I had an academic who also wanted this information higher up in the page because she didnt even see it6 votesThe new list view has allowed us to review the wording and how a digitisation is linked to, to make this more inline with the other item information in the list. This should resolve the issue of students not being able to spot the link to the digitisation.
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Display of journal information
Similar to the 'display of chapters' idea, which is due to be implemented, we have received feedback that academics would like the journal information to be shown in the reading list display i.e. without the student having to click through to the article title.
1 voteThis is already available in the new list view, which is ready for rollout in your university. Recommended steps to rollout the new list view at your University can be read here: https://support.talis.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000008189-Recommended-steps-to-rollout-the-new-list-view-at-your-University
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