Talis Aspire Reading Lists
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Search draft lists
Would like to have the ability to search for lists that are 'Draft'. Would not like this to be available publically, but for library staff who are currently managing the set up of lists at implementation, to be able to search for lists that are in progress.
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Adding a 'has part' facility - for book chapters and journal articles
A Liaison Librarian member of our Resource List project group is finding the management of book chapters (and by implication journal articles) through the Bookmarking tool vexing.
The scenario is this: a List Publisher wants to add an entry for a book chapter for a print book held in the library. Using the browser plug-in, they bookmark the book from the library catalogue, but in the Bookmark preview screen there is only the option to indicate that this item is 'Part of...' something else, whereas what the Publisher of the List wants to do is indicate that this item 'Has…
7 votesThis feature has been delivered to live
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Adding a Cancel button to the Bookmark item preview screen
In the Bookmark Item preview screen ('Add this item to your bookmarks') a third 'Cancel' button needs to be added alongside the 'Create and 'Create & Add' buttons. Clicking on this would return the browser to the source screen. Once at the preview screen, there is no option within Aspire not to proceed with Bookmarking the Item - while, of course, a List editor may have (a) changed their mind; (b) selected the wrong thing; or perhaps more commonly (c) be disappointed by the quality of the extracted metadata (Title, URL, 'Web Page' type) for non-supported platforms and not want…
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Have you read this? - Tagging
Responses from a recent Aspire focus group with undergraduates showed that although they felt the 'Have you read this' tagging was a useful feature- most would only use it if they could display a list of items tagged as 'planning to read' or 'have read'. Other suggestions were to indicate the 'read' status in the main resource list view.
7 votesThis is now included in Aspire
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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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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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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 -
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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Have all list action options for draft lists as well as published (delete, archive, copy, etc)
When a list is in draft status, you are missing a lot of list editing options. We would like all options possible for published lists to be possible for draft lists as they could all be useful.
6 votesThis was completed laast year
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Add ability to batch publish (etc) lists
We need to be able to search/select lists, tick the ones we want to carry out a batch function on, and batch publish them.
Other batch functions are also required, such as unpublish, add note, assign list publisher, assign list owner... [Um, I already put batch assign list owner in a separate idea, maybe this should all just be one?]
6 votesWe have now enabled the action to bulk publish lists. You can read more about this in this article: https://support.talis.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000292238-Bulk-list-actions
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More Suppliers Options in Request Review
Currently we have 'Find in Coutts Oasis' and 'Check price at Abebooks' available as sources of information under the Identifiers column in list Review.
Is it possible to either add to this list or have suppliers of local choice?
Dawson Enter is our source of choice for acquisitions checks, followed by Amazon.
6 votesDawsonEnter was added some time ago.
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Improve Delete Warning when removing a list section
Various people have mentioned nodes and sections of lists being deleted by they-know-not-who. Hopefully these deletions have been made accidentally. Would it be possible to install a warning button "Are you sure you wish to delete...?"
6 votesThis has not yet been scheduled but we plan to address this by improving the warning to: “Deleting this section will also remove all the resources in it from your list. Are you sure you want to remove this section and all the items in it?”
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Allow an administrator to bulk rollover lists to a new time period
An administrator specifies a "from" period and a "to" period, and then asks the system to perform a bulk rollover.
The system finds all lists that are currently assigned to the specified "from" period that haven't already been copied manually and assigned to the specified "to" period. For all given matches, the system creates a copy of these lists and automatically assigns them to the "to" period.
For example, the following lists exist before rollover (list name/time period shown):
"Financial Accounting and reporting", "Autumn Term 08/09"
"Advanced Financial Accounting and reporting", "Autumn Term 08/09"
"Advanced Financial Accounting and reporting", "Spring…6 votesWe released this on 8th July 2011
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Selective export to Bibliographic Management Software (RefWorks, EndNote)
Students should be able to:
Flag, tag, tick or basket selected items in a Resource List (or Lists) and then export them to one of the standard Bibliographic Management applications, such as RefWorks or Endnote.
For RefWorks, and other systems, a direct export facility should be offered; with a RIS formatted indirect export as a fallback.
Aspire is not a Bibliographic Management application, but needs to integrate as easily as possible with applications which are. Students who are being encouraged to consult materials in their studies will want to be able to cite and refer to those materials in their…
6 votesI’m marking this idea as completed. We’ve got some more enhancements to do here, including selective export of citations (which we’re planning to implement from the My Bookmarks screen) but the spirit of this idea is now delivered to the application. For enhancements, please raise new ideas or email LIS-ASPIRE where there is an active thread discussing this feature.
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Bookmark tool for Safari
We are now starting to get uptake from some of our Arts and Technology types and their prefered browser is Safari; getting a bookmarlet tool for that would be helpful - or is there a work-around?
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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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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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Automatic Send for review on publishing or updating a list
It would be very helpful if Send for review happened automatically when a list is published or updated- ideally to a group email address or Aspire group we set the permissions for.
5 votesThe ability to configure the system to force a review request when a publish happens has been completed. (See this release notice: http://support.talisaspire.com/entries/26390701-Talis-Aspire-Reading-Lists-Release-13th-February-2014)
Please raise a support ticket to specify your configuration preference. The ability to configure review notifications to go to a group email address or to a role that has the receive review notification already exists, please contact support if you need assistance with that
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Add report for seeing usage (logins etc) by academics
There is still no way we can see who is using Aspire and how often. This was discussed as a key area of reports way back at the MIS day and is essential for supporting academic engagement strategies. We need to know which academics have logged in to Aspire, when they last logged in, how often they log in, which academics haven't logged in, all over user-selected date ranges.
5 votesLast login was added to the All User profiles report.
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More control over the presentation of bonus content
Currently, Aspire takes anything in the 856 field and identifies the item as an electronic resource. We use the 856 field to include bonus content, such as a link to Table of Contents or links to publisher's websites. This is very confusing for students who click on the resource, thinking it is an e-book, only to find it is a hard copy
5 votesWe have made some changes to the way that the information from the 856 is pulled across when bookmarking to exclude the bonus content. This will improve the student experience when accessing resources.
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