Introduction

A reference entry in Primo VE contains a short overview and a full text link to an article that contains reference information based on the subject of the user's search. These reference entries appear prominently above the results when the results contain CDI records and the search maps to a topic that contains reference information in an active collection in your institution. For example, a search for the term Texas may include a reference entry to an article containing general information about Texas:

CDI maintains a separate topic index, consisting of topics and their synonyms taken from the reference sources that we index. When this feature is enabled, searches are first compared to our topic index, and if there is a match and a corresponding reference entry from one of the collections for which you have active full text, the highlighted topic appears at the top of the search list. 

The CDI topics were originally identified by mining queries and phrases from CDI searches, and matching them against Wikipedia (to ensure that the searches map to actual concepts or things). Wikipedia and encyclopedia articles from CDI source collections listed below (such as Credo Reference, Encyclopedia Britannica, and so forth) are matched to topics as part of the regular CDI content loading cycle. The topic list is maintained as part of the CDI index. You can submit requests for new topic entries to Ex Libris Support for evaluation and inclusion. 

Highlighted reference entries appear under following conditions:

• The relevant reference resource is activated in Alma and has been published to CDI. 

• The Active for Search in CDI field is set to Yes in the electronic collection in Alma.

• The searched term has a clear match in the reference source.

• The reference entry has a full text available.

• The reference entry has a valid description.

Eligible source collections include the following:

• Encyclopedia Britannica

• Credo

• Gale Virtual Reference Library

• Oxford University Press

  • Grove Music

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online

  • Oxford Research Encyclopedias

  • American Dictionary of National Biography Online

  • Oxford Very Short Introductions

• WorldBook

• Wikipedia

Depending on the activated collections in your institution, full-text linking is provided by either the link resolver or the link in the record. Note that if the link resolver provides linking and no article-level linking is available, the reference entry links to the book or dictionary that contains the article, not the article.

Configuration Options

This functionality is disabled by default. The following table lists the configuration options that are supported with this functionality.