Introduction and Frequently Asked Questions for Newspaper Search

Introduction

The Newspaper Search enables easier newspaper content and collection access through a dedicated search option for users. The newspaper search provides access to over a billion newspaper articles and news resources. For the new Primo UI only, this enhancement improves the discovery of scholarly content in Primo by separating newspaper articles from the main search.

The key features include the following:

• A separate search environment with the same look and feel as the Primo main search and results pages with the same configuration options for pagination, navigation, and sort options and facets

• Seamless integration with the main search with a newspaper resource facet that links the user directly from the main Primo result list to the newspaper search result list

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

• Access to more than 350 newspaper collections — many more than previously available

Activation and configuration of the new feature is performed through the Primo Back Office.

With the new feature enabled, news items are removed from the standard CDI search results, increasing its focus on scholarly content.

To allow users to access the centrally-indexed newspaper content, Primo provides the following options:

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

  

• The Featured Newspapers section on the new Newspaper Search page allows end-users to view and search featured newspaper categories that are configured by staff.

  

• On the results page for regular searches that include CDI, the following options enable users to access the centrally-indexed newspaper content, which no longer displays in regular searches:

  • The Newspapers search facet value has been added under the Resource Type facet in the Tweak my results section.

    

  • The Newspapers Search link will display after the last record on the Brief Results page.

    

Types of Newspaper Content

Newspaper content from CDI is divided into the following types:

• Hybrid – Newspaper content that is part of hybrid collections. When Newspaper Search is disabled, this content appears only in blended searches (CDI and local Primo). When Newspaper Search is enabled, this content appears only in Newspaper Search.

• 80% – Newspaper content that comes from collections that our Content team has identified as containing 80% or more newspaper articles. When Newspaper Search is enabled, this content appears only in Newspaper Search. When Newspaper Search is disabled, this content is not discoverable in Primo.

The following table indicates where each type of collection is discoverable in Primo:

Frequently Asked Questions

1. If I enable Newspaper Search, how does it affect the results of newspaper content in blended searches?

   Newspaper content from hybrid collections is no longer discoverable with blended searches (CDI and local). However, content from Hybrid and 80% collections are discoverable in Newspaper Search.

2. If I disable Newspaper Search, how does it affect the results of newspaper content in blended searches?

   Newspaper content from Hybrid collections is now discoverable using blended searches, and newspaper content from either type of collection is no longer discoverable in Newspaper Search.

3. How do I enable or disable Newspaper Search?

   Newspaper Search is enabled by configuring both of the following fields in the Primo Back Office:

   • The Newspapers Search check box in the Institution Wizard (Primo Home > Ongoing Configuration Wizards > Institution Wizard) enables the feature at the institution level.

   • The Display link to Newspapers Search check box in the Views Wizard (Primo Home > Ongoing Configuration Wizards > Views Wizard) allows you to enable/disable the feature per view.

   For additional configuration information, see Configuring Newspaper Search for Primo.

4. What configuration options are available for the new Newspaper Search interface?

   Apart from enabling and disabling Newspaper Search, you will also be able to control the display of Featured Newspapers on the Newspaper Search page. This section will be turned on by default, but it will only display after you have uploaded newspapers of your choice to be featured. For information on how enable and configure Featured Newspapers, see Configuring Featured Newspapers for Primo.

   As with all other Primo features, all labels and text are configured with code tables.

5. How do I know what collections are part of Newspaper search?

   Depending on your link resolver, set the CDI Newspapers filter to the following values while using Alma advanced search or the SFX KBManager > Target list:

   • YES – Collections of this type are considered hybrid and are indexed in CDI. When Newspaper Search is disabled, this content is discoverable when performing blended searches only. When Newspaper Search is enabled, this content is discoverable when using Newspaper Search only.

   • YES, NEWSPAPER SEARCH ONLY – 80 % of this type of collection is considered to contain newspaper content. When Newspaper Search is enabled, this content is discoverable when using Newspaper Search only. When Newspaper Search is disabled, this content is not discoverable in Primo.

6. How can I ensure that the newspapers I subscribe to are flagged as available?

   Newspaper Search uses the same Alma/SFX full text and CDI search activation information as the standard CDI search results: The activation information for your Alma/SFX institution is published to CDI (via the CDI publishing profile in Alma and the CDI export in SFX) and processed by CDI for use in both the standard CDI search results and Newspaper Search.