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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hello, all! With our webinar coming up on Thursday, I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of the updates/enhancements that will occur to the
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/Primo_VE_(English)/015_Getting_Started_with_Primo_Research_Assistant__;!!DZ3fjg!8hGj3ZoSsfJgFSXBxg5qNZU2eR-WotCi5zMLgtb_hX8XHL25T0JrHLRcbJ5YjYQnxb6dzPlHB7tLsDNdIU8koWS2slaSFB-Iy8A$">
Research Assistant</a> in the November Feature Release on Nov. 3:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Retain Research History between Sessions</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> - Primo Research Assistant now saves research topics between sessions and categorizes by time.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Set Order of Primo <span class="rnsearchmatch">
Research Assistant</span> Link in Main Menu</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> - Previously, the Primo Research Assistant Link in the Main Menu could not be ordered and defaulted to the first position. With this enhancement, it will continue to default
to the first position, but you can now change its order in the Main Menu.</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Additional Improvements to Primo Research Assistant</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">:
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Improved Display Labels</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"> – Updated the display text for the labels in the Research Assistant Search Screen Labels code table (Configuration > Discovery
> Display Configuration > Labels)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Switch to GPT-4o mini</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> – We upgraded to the new version of GPT.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">New prompt for Negative Rejection and Noise Robustness</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> – Primo Research Assistant better handles information
that is not relevant to user questions and will support specific scenarios. <o:p>
</o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Query Classification – Phase I</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> – Primo Research Assistant Indicates when it cannot answer a user's question
and identifies Advanced Searches that includes time and format conditions. Note that this is just the initial phase, so it’s quite limited for now.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Analytics data for the Primo Research Assistant was not visible to all customers. This has been fixed.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Research Assistant Feedback icon is covering part of the RA Submit button. This has been fixed.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">More details are in the Release Notes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Release_Notes/002Primo_VE/2024/010Primo_VE_2024_Release_Notes?mon=202411BASE__;!!DZ3fjg!8hGj3ZoSsfJgFSXBxg5qNZU2eR-WotCi5zMLgtb_hX8XHL25T0JrHLRcbJ5YjYQnxb6dzPlHB7tLsDNdIU8koWS2slaS02B-0cE$">https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Release_Notes/002Primo_VE/2024/010Primo_VE_2024_Release_Notes?mon=202411BASE</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-Jessica<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Jessica Gibson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Associate Director, System Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), any written communication to or from University of Illinois employees regarding U of I business is
a public record and may be subject to public disclosure.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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