This functionality enables customers to prevent users belonging to specific user groups from searching restricted Central Index collections, EBSCO search, and Newspaper Search. This may be necessary if a user group (for example, alumni who have user accounts and sign-in off campus) is not permitted access but the institution as a whole is.

If a signed-in user is not on campus, Primo checks to see if the user belongs to one of the restricted user groups defined with this configuration before sending a request to Central Index, EBSCO, or Newspaper Search.

If a signed-in user is not on campus and belongs to a restricted group, the user cannot:

• Search EBSCO.

• Search specific collections in the Central index or Newspapers Search. These collections are called CDI restricted-for-search collections. In Alma, these collections are labeled as CDI collections with Search Rights set to Subscription. To retrieve their search results, the Primo/Primo VE patron must be either on campus or logged on.

If a signed-in user is not on campus and does not belong to a restricted group, they can search EBSCO and the restricted-for-search collections in CDI and Newspapers Search. The behavior used for on-campus users does not change.