Introduction

Newspaper Search is a dedicated search interface that enables users to access newspaper articles more easily in Primo/Primo VE. It provides access to over a billion newspaper articles and news resources in CDI. When enabled in Primo/Primo VE, this functionality improves scholarly content discovery by separating newspaper articles from the main search interface.

The key features of this functionality include the following:

• Access to more than 350 newspaper collections - many more than previously available.

• A dedicated Newspaper Search interface has the same look and feel as the main search and results page. It uses the same configuration options for pagination and navigation, sort options, and facets.

  

  Newspaper Search Interface

  Newspaper Search returns only newspaper articles. Newspaper records can be found using the Library and Advanced Search.

• After performing a simple or advanced search in a CDI search scope, users can select either of the following links from their search results to display matching newspaper articles in Newspaper Search:

  • The Newspapers search link that appears at the bottom of each search results page:

    

    Newspaper Search Link

  • The Resource Type > Newspaper search facet value under the Tweak my results section:

    

    Newspaper Search Facet Value

  When this functionality is enabled, newspaper articles from CDI appear only in Newspaper Search to concentrate focus on scholarly content in search results from simple and advanced searches.

• The search box on the new Newspaper Search page enables users to search from all centrally-indexed newspaper collections, all featured newspapers, or a specific featured newspaper category.

  

• A featured newspaper lobby page that you can use to promote access to newspapers that are most important to your users.

  

  Featured Newspaper Section

Accessing Newspaper Articles in CDI

When you enable Newspaper Search, newspaper articles from CDI are discoverable only in the Newspaper Search interface. Newspaper records will no longer appear in simple and advanced searches in Primo/Primo VE.

When you disable Newspaper Search, only newspaper articles from selected sets of collections are discoverable in regular searches. These collections have the Newspapers field set to Yes.

CDI marks its collections as follows to indicate whether the collection contains searchable newspaper articles using Newspaper Search in Primo/Primo VE:

• Yes – The newspaper articles in this collection are available in both the Newspaper Search interface and the regular search interface in Primo/Primo VE.

• Yes, Newspapers search only – Newspaper articles in this collection are available exclusively via the Newspaper Search interface, not via the regular search interface in Primo/Primo VE.

• No – This collection does not include any newspaper articles.

This information is displayed for each CDI collection on the CDI tab in Alma's Electronic Collection Editor, SFX's KBManager > Target list, and the CDI collection lists for Alma and SFX.

Configuring Newspaper Search

This feature is disabled by default in Primo/Primo VE. For configuration information, see the following pages for your environment:

• Configuring the Newspaper Search Interface for Primo

• Configuring Newspaper Search for Primo VE

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What configuration options are available for Newspaper Search?

   Apart from enabling and disabling Newspaper Search, you can also control the display of Featured Newspapers on the Newspaper Search page by specifying newspapers of your choice to be featured.

2. How can I tell which collections are part of Newspaper Search?

   Use the CDI Newspapers filter in Alma's Advanced Search (search in Electronic collection) or the SFX KBManager > Target list depending on your link resolver. For information regarding the supported filter options, see Accessing Newspaper Articles in CDI.