Introduction

Newspaper Search is a dedicated search interface that enables users to access newspaper articles more easily in Primo VE. It provides access to over a billion newspaper articles and news resources in CDI. When enabled in 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.

  

  Newspapers Search Page with Featured Newspapers (NDE UI)

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

  • When the Newspaper Search feature is enabled in Alma:

    • The results from blended searches may include newspaper articles from indexes other than the Central Index.

    • The Creator and New records facets are not available in Newspaper 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. (Planned for August 2025.)

  • 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.

• A featured newspaper lobby page that you can use to promote access to newspapers that are most important to your users. (Planned for August 2025.)

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 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 and the CDI collection list for Alma.

Enabling Newspaper Search for the NDE UI

When Newspaper Search is enabled in Primo VE, users must use the Newspaper Search interface to search for newspaper articles from CDI collections, which is no longer searchable using Primo VE's simple and advanced search interfaces. Users can link directly to Newspaper Search from regular search results using a Newspapers search link (Planned for August 2025) and facet Resource Type > Newspaper search link.

1. Open the Central Index and Proxy Set-Up page (Configuration > Discovery > Other > Central Index and proxy set-up). For more details, see Central Index and Proxy Set-Up.

2. In the Search Configurations section, select the Newspaper search checkbox.

3. Select Save.

4. Edit your view on the View Configuration page (Configuration > Discovery > Display Configuration > Configure Views). For more details, see View Configuration in Primo VE.

   1. On the Links Menu tab, select the Newspapers checkbox to enable the Newspaper search link in the main menu.

   2. On the Search Profile Slots tab, ensure that the CentralIndex code is active.

   3. On the General tab, select the Display link to Newspapers Search checkbox to enable the Newspapers search link in the following areas in the results:

      • At the bottom of the search results page.

      • At the bottom of the Resource Type facet in the Tweak your results section in the results.

   4. On the General tab, select the Newspapers Search Filter By Availability checkbox to indicate whether Newspaper Search returns only articles that are available to the institution. This field is selected by default. 

   5. Select Save.

Configuring Featured Newspapers for the NDE UI

When Featured Newspapers functionality is enabled, users can also search from newspapers that you have categorized in Newspaper Search. For more details, see Central Index and Proxy Set-Up. (Planned for August 2025.)

1. Open the Central Index and Proxy Set-Up page (Configuration > Discovery > Other > Central Index and proxy set-up).

2. In the Featured Newspapers section, select Add New Featured Newspaper to configure 1 to 5 featured newspaper categories/newspapers.

3. In the dialog box, specify the following fields:

   • Code – Specify a unique code for the category/newspaper.

   • Name – Specify the display name for the category/newspaper. You can click the Globe icon to translate the display label.

   • ISSN – Specify 1 to 5 ISSN of the category/newspaper. You can specify a maximum of five ISSN per category by separating them with a semicolon. For example: 0362-4331;1085-6706

   • Description – Specify the text that displays under the name of the category/newspaper in the Featured Newspaper section on the Newspaper Search page. You can select the Globe icon to translate the display text.

4. Select Add Row.

5. Select Save.

Configuring the Default Availability Filter

The Newspapers Search Filter By Availability field on the General tab of the View Configuration page (Configuration > Discovery > Display Configuration > Configure Views) indicates whether Newspaper Search should return only articles that are available to the institution by default. Otherwise, availability is not factored into the results. For more information, see Configuring Discovery Views for Primo VE.

Configuring the Default Sort

The default_sort_newspaper_by_date_newest parameter on the Discovery Customer Settings page (Configuration > Discovery > Other > Customer settings) indicates whether Newspaper Search results are sorted by the most recent dates first (Date-newest). Otherwise, the default sort is Relevance. For more information, see Discovery Customer Settings.

Configuring Display Labels

The labels associated with Newspaper Search appear on various pages in Primo VE. The following table lists the code tables used to customize these labels..