New Person Entity will be added in the Discovery in 3 areas: Search auto-complete, Info Card in full display and a new Person page.

• New Person entity based on LCNAMES and Wikidata. 

• New entry type of Person in the auto-complete.   

• New Info Card in records full display for authors and subjects. 

• New Person page to present person info and relationships.

• Better exploration and recommendation.  

• Richer discovery experience.

Showcase and display a visual carousel of records tailored to the library’s specifications.

Better manage and expose what is most relevant helping libraries meet the users where they are.  

Expose Authorities allowing search and display in a new dedicated Primo VE page.

• A new patron facing interface for searching locally managed authorities.

• Allow users to search across authorities terms and link out to bibliographic records connected to the term.

Better exposure of relevant library information.

Ability to export a large number (thousands) of search results.

• Introduce a new option in the user interface to support the bulk export of search results.

• Patrons can select to export search results in CSV/ Excel, RIS or BIBTEX formats.

Users can save and maintain  their literature  review outside the context of Primo VE.

Display consent message to inform patrons that their personal information will be shared with the institution as part of registration for direct requests.

• When remote registration is enabled in a fulfillment network, the Register button appears in Get It to allow users from an institution to register to get access to services from another institution.

• Patrons that will click ‘Register’ will receive a consent message.

More informative patron workflows, better transparency, and greater sense of trust.

Support German MARC cataloging with the 689 subject field.

• Map 689 field to the standard MARC 6XX fields.

• Patron will be able to view and search on subjects cataloged in 689.

Better regional support for German cataloging libraries.

Offer multiple configuration options when using the “equals/exact” search method for hypertext linking.

• The admin will be able to define for which fields (Author, Subject) clicking on hypertext linking will trigger ‘Equals exact phrase’ search.

• Patron will get more accurate search method based on the hypertext field.

More control over the search method used when searching for records with the same author/subject.

Support formatting and link out to other pages using HTML coding for labels and public notes.

• Specific labels and public notes will now be able to display HTML coding for styling and hyperlinks.

• Once defined, patrons will see labels, public notes and collection description fields formatted with the HTML tags.

Provide better user experience and workflow.

Offer multiple configuration options to the behavior in cases of one location in Get It.

• Currently, if there are items in only one location, the first display after opening the Getit is at the item level.

• Administrators will be able to define whether users should see the items within the location or always display the holdings/location list first.

Provide better user experience and workflow.

Limit exact searches to not expand the query using linguistic capabilities.

• When a users' searches containing quotation marks indicating an exact phrase, Primo VE will return results that exactly match the terms entered and will not expand the query to include results with search string query variations or stemming.

Better search capabilities to improve the discovery experience.

Expand Collection Discovery beyond Alma bib records.

• Allow Collection Manager to add specific selected CDI or external records to be displayed as part of the Collection Discovery.

• Patron will explore collections that will contain both local and external resources.

Better manage and expose what is most relevant.

Allow excluding selected CDI resource types in a Search Profile.

• In 2022 we added the ability to define a limited CDI search profiles to specific resource types (such as videos or theses) and/or disciplines (such as visual arts).

• This enhancement is to expand this capability further and allow the library to create a search profile that completely excludes specific CDI resource types.

• The library may define multiple CDI search profiles that are targeted to different resources.

Better manage and expose what is most relevant.

For consortia, the central office will have more centralized operational abilities, allowing member institutions to inherit setup and configuration.

• The central office will be able to define more functionality configurations in the Network Zone and apply them to selected members.

The central office will be able to work more efficiently, reducing time spent applying central policies.

Deduplicated and normalized CDI subject headings based on LCSH and MeSH controlled vocabularies.

• CDI subjects are now mapped to established LCSH and MeSH subject headings for search, display, and facets. 

• Subjects that are not normalized are considered keywords and may still be searched and displayed in Primo VE.

• Further refining will be done in 2024 based on customer feedback.

Eliminates user confusion leveraging familiar vocabulary schemas.

CDI Quicklinks and Link in record links will use the  customer linking parameters specified in Alma for each library.

• Customer-specific linking parameters will be published from Alma to CDI, eliminating the need for additional set-up or help from Support. 

• Gale and ProQuest are the first providers impacted. For additional information, see Customer Linking Parameters in CDI Links.

One-step configuration.

Book Reviews that were previously categorized as Articles by the match & merge process will now reflect their correct Content Type.

• The logic for the Match & merge process will be refined to better distinguish Book Reviews from Articles. 

• Facets and result ranking will improve the user experience.

Easier, more accurate identification of desired resources.

In Press articles that do not have sufficient metadata for linking (e.g. volume and issue) will be handled with special logic in Primo VE.

• It will be possible to suppress availability for articles based on a combination of provider and absent metadata fields. 

• The rules will be tailored to individual providers & collections as necessary.

Prevent broken links to content and avoid user frustration.

Launching a new platform for understanding how users behave within the user interface.

• Working with customers focus group and early adopters throughout 2024.

Make data-driven decisions and improve user engagement and retention. Understanding the user journey, identify pain points, drop-off points, locate the access points to Primo VE and more.

Expand searching in Arabic with linguistic morphology and inflections.

Adding support for Arabic linguistic search expansion using the Melingo add-on for the MENA region.

Better regional support for MENA institutions.