Introduction

Primo VE provides delivery services based on the Alma inventory. Access to such resources is controlled by the Alma inventory. On both the brief results and full record pages, Primo VE includes information concerning the availability of the items and online links. On the full record page, Primo VE displays the following delivery sections:

• Get It – Enables users to place requests on physical inventory. Additional services (such as digitization may also be provided by the library).

• View It – Enables users to display electronic and digital inventory. Out-of-the-box, this section is labeled View Online for Primo VE.

• How to Get it – When a record has no inventory, this section enables users to select other options to get this item.

• Links – Displays additional links for the resource (such as for MARC 856 fields and general electronic services).

Availability Status and Calculation

For records managed in Alma, Primo indicates to the user if a record is available online and/or in cases of print inventory, the record level availability and indication of its holding information. In cases of multiple physical holdings, an additional text will indicate "and other locations". This availability information is calculated directly from Alma and appears on both the brief results page and the full record page. Additional holdings and item information appear as part of the Get It section on the full record page.

For Central Index records, which are managed by the Central Discovery Index (CDI), Primo indicates on the brief results page whether a record is available online based on the Alma electronic holdings file that is published nightly to the Central Index. For information on how to publish the holdings information to the Central Index, see Publishing to Central Discovery Index. On the full record page, Primo VE calculates the full availability for the record and indicates whether Alma can provide electronic, digital, or physical services and updates the availability statement accordingly.

When opening a Primo Services page which is called from external openURL services, Primo VE calculates the full availability for the record and indicates whether Alma can provide electronic, digital, or physical services, and display an availability statement accordingly. For more information on the Services Page see Configuring the Services Page for Primo VE.

Get It

The Primo Get It section appears when the record has print inventory/holdings in Alma, enableing patrons to determine the following information for each physical title displayed in the search results:

• The availability of the title

• The locations in which the title can be found

• The request options

• The item information and status

If the user belongs to a collaborative network, additional locations and services from other institutions may be seen under the Getit at Other Institutions section.

View It

For local records, the Primo View It section appears when the record has electronic or digital inventory in Alma. By default, View It displays a maximum of 25 services for electronic resources. By setting the enable_view_it_show_all_results parameter to true on the Alma Customer Parameters page (Configuration Menu > Resources > General > Other Settings), users can display all services, 10 at a time. To view all the services, users can either display a specific page by selecting the page number, move to the first (<<) or last page (>>), or move to the previous (<) or next (>) page. For configuration details, see Configuring Other Settings (Resource Management).

If configured, additional services may also appear in the View It section. For more information, see Configuring General Electronic Services.

For CDI records, the Primo View It section includes the following types of links:

• OpenURL – provided by the Alma linkresolver. Configuration for the Alma linkresolver enables the library to decide which links to display and their order.

• Link in Record – provided by CDI in the PNX links/linktorsrc and links/linktorsrcadditional fields and includes the following subfields, which are used for the display text of the links in the View It section and indicate whether the link is Open Access:

  • $$F – Contains the text displayed before the provider's name in the link. You can modify this text by customizing/translating the following code in the Links and General Electronic Services Labels code table:

    fulldisplay.Access_content_in – Access content in {{provider from subfield $$G}}

  • $$G – Contains the provider's name. This information cannot be translated by customers.

  • $$E – Contains the full display text of the link if the $$F and $$G subfields are not provided. In addition, it is possible to provide generic text (which does not include provider names) for all Link in Record collections by customizing/translating the following code in the Links and General Electronic Services Labels code table:

    fulldisplay.View_full_text_in_collection – View full text in collection

  • $$H –If this subfield contains the text free_for_read, the link is considered to be Open Access.

  Example:

  <links>

  <linktorsrc>$$Uhttps://search.informit.org/documentSummary;res=TVNEWS;dn=TSM201606010113$$EView_record_in_Informit$$FView_record_in_$$GInformit</linktorsrc>

  </links>

  For more information about CDI linking, refer to CDI_and_Linking_to_Electronic_Full_Text

For more configuration options, see Configuring Discovery Interface Display Logic for Primo VE. 

How to Get It

The Primo How to Get It section appears only when the record has no print, electronic or digital inventory in Alma.

This section can include Alma services, if permitted for the user, for the selected title such as Resource Sharing and Purchase Request. In addition, you can define additional services that to display in the How to Get It section. For more information, see Configuring General Electronic Services.

Links

The Links section displays additional links that appear for the following:

• General electronic services that have the Is this a Document Delivery/ILL service? field set to False. For more information, see Configuring General Electronic Services for Primo VE.

• MARC 856 fields with the first indicator set to 4 and subfield $u configured. If none of the $y, $z, or $3 subfields exist to provide a label for the link, the label for the link defaults to the following:

  1. Link to resource – Displays if the second indicator is set to #, 0, or 1. Examples:

     856 4# $u http://info.med.yale.edu/medmenu/info%5Fcbc.html

     856 40 $u http://susdl.fcla.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~fdl/fdlcgi?FA00000011%2Fpdf

     856 41 $u http://www.jstor.org/journals/0277903x.html

  2. Related link – Displays if the second indicator is set to 2. Example:

     856 42 $u http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/pubs/ar/index.html

  For example, if the 856 links have the following configuration in the source:

  856 41 $u http://www.jstor.org/journals/0277903x.html

  856 4# $y Electronic resource (PDF) $u http://susdl.fcla.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~fdl/fdlcgi?FA00000011%2Fpd

  856 4# $z Part of the Ovid Mental Health Collection (MHC). Follow instructions on MedMenu page for Ovid login. $u http://info.med.yale.edu/medmenu/info%5Fcbc.html

  856 42 $3 Essays from annual reports $u http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/pubs/ar/index.html

  The first four links in the Links section appear as follows in Primo VE:

  

  Links Section for Physical Resource 

  Links with duplicate URLs and titles are not repeated in the Links section.

• Record's source – The Display Source Record link appears when the Display source record option is enabled on the View Configuration page. For more details, see Configuring the Links Service.

• CDI – Links from CDI records that are not linked to a resource.