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Add ability to add a comment when accepting a referred digitisation request

Scenario - a digitisation request has been referred as existing copy available. It would be good to add a note stating why you accept the digitisation request (eg. limited concurrent user ebook for large cohort of students, etc.)
Bex Carruthers over 1 year ago in  TADC 2 Planned

Move the 'additional fields' button above the Resource lookup field in the bookmarking screen

In the new bookmarking screen the 'additional fields' button takes a lot of scrolling to find and it would be better if it was higher up the page. We would like it to sit above the 'Resource lookup' field, under the 'Link to' button. We've include...
Sarah Halliday 7 months ago in Bookmarking 2 Planned

Add author information to Review exports

We would like the author details to appear in the Reviews export as this information is currently missing from the export data. We use 'Export Reviews' for accessible text modules to notify our Accessible Text Service of book items not available e...
Guest about 1 year ago in Reviews 2 Planned

Allow digitisation requests for the resource type 'document'

It would be helpful if list owners could request digitisation from their reading lists for items that are not chapters or articles especially documents. Currently they (or Library staff) have to change the resource type in order to activate the re...
Guest 8 months ago in  TADC 3 Planned

ADD RESOURCE - add world-wide searching to integrated discovery function

Hello, We've recently added the OCLC discovery integration to our ADD RESOURCE button within the reading list. It's a significant improvement on searching the Nielson database. However, it currently searches our own holdings only. We would ideally...
Nicholas Gates over 1 year ago in  7 Planned

New resource type: book portions & Combine two tabs for journal articles when bookmarking

We have feedback from an academic: I have spent more than 1 hour to try to add a book portion (NOT a whole chapter) and still could not add it. So, we would like to see an option to add book portion (as a new resource type) with multiple page rang...
Jingyue Wu 10 months ago in Bookmarking 3 Planned

Limit the available 'Add field' options based on the Resource type selected

Currently, all possible 'Add field' options are able to added to the metadata window regardless of what resource type has been selected. To enhance the user experience, it would be helpful if only the fields necessary to reference the selected res...
Sarah @ AUT over 1 year ago in Bookmarking 1 Planned

Enable system administrators to add, edit, and remove Time Periods themselves

It would be useful if system administrators could add, edit, and remove Time Periods on their tenancies themselves.
Sarah @ AUT over 1 year ago in Time Periods 1 Planned

Enable a 'Key Theorist' label to be added to resources that are old but foundational

To enhance how reading lists can support the development of students' information literacy skills (particuarly among first-years), it would be useful if resources could be tagged/labelled as 'Key Theorist'. This would indicate to students that the...
Sarah @ AUT over 1 year ago in Edit List 1 Planned

Add a 'Newest Edition' label to Books/Chapters based on metadata

Currently, if we want to indicate a Book/Chapter is the newest edition, we need to communciate this through Notes. It would be very useful if Books/Chapters were automatically tagged with a 'Newest edition' label based on their metadata. This woul...
Sarah @ AUT over 1 year ago in Edit List 1 Planned