Integrating Primo Central into Xerxes a year before going live with Primo allows us to end our Summon contract early, saving the CSU a considerable amount of money, and to get an early look at and use of Primo Central.
Known Issues
Case#
Issue
Notes
Reported
Status
00238044
Boolean 'OR' and 'NOT' don't work between search fields
Boolean AND, OR and NOT work within a field. Apparent limitation in API query syntax. Has gone to Ex Libris Development, and we are looking at other possible options for fix. In the meantime, Xerxes only showing AND as an option between fields in the advanced search.
Status
colour
Yellow
title
with Ex Libris
00339451
Facet hit counts can be off by large amount from actual returned results when you select that facet
Likely related to some other issues that Ex Libris is addressing in PCI, has gone to Development
Status
colour
Yellow
title
with Ex Libris
00352340
OpenURLs from Primo are not encoding the "&" correctly in the journal title
Half of the journal title is missing when being passed from the Primo OpenURL to SFX causing linking issues.
Status
colour
...
Yellow
title
...
with Ex Libris
00351212
Special characters in the DOI are not encoded properly from Primo Central
There is a known issue with special characters in the DOI not being encoded by Primo causing full text linking issues from Primo/Xerxes records. Will be fixed in February 2017.
Integrating Primo Central into Xerxes a year before going live with Primo allows us to end our Summon contract early, saving the CSU a considerable amount of money, and to get an early look at and use of Primo Central.
Scope
Development of code in Xerxes to integrate Primo Central results. Early access to and training for Primo Central collection registration.