Some things to consider when setting up Primo VE searching:
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Primo VE was delivered with several scopes already set up for each campus, including your library catalog, PCI article content, etc. Much like a lot of things in Alma/Primo, the scopes are configured to be reusable in a variety of search profiles (or just one search profile if you’re not highly customizing Alma/Primo).
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Search profiles allow you to define groups of records that meet specific conditions so that users may search and quickly find materials and services that are offered by your institution. A Search Profile is the highest level container for what content is searched.
You can pick whatever scopes you’d like to use for the search profile, and they can be a blend of custom scopes, scopes from your institution, and those externally managed such as the central index (your selection of resources from the Primo Central Index you’d like to search), or others.
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The slots and search profiles that you set up for basic searching will also appear in advanced search. You can customize your advanced search in several ways:
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The CDI (formerly PCI) is a centralized index that encompasses hundreds of millions of records harvested from primary and secondary publishers and aggregators. These records include a mix of scholarly material – primarily articles and e-books – but also conference proceedings, newspaper articles, and more. In addition to citation metadata, many records include abstracts and some ("link in record" type) also include full text. What you activate for CDI searching isn’t automatically reflected in Primo searches. CDI publishing to Primo happens every 48-72 hours, so there can be up to an 3-day delay in seeing your changes reflected in Primo. .
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A couple of use cases for restricted search groups could be:
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