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mergent market atlas
Mergent has a new product that is replacing Mergent Online, which will be sunsetting in 2025. The replacement product is Market Atlas.
https://marketatlas.mergent.com. Are there plans to add this new collection?3 votes -
Implement Upload Electronic Holdings (Autoholdings) integration for Emerald
Implement Upload Electronic Holdings (Autoholdings) integration for Emerald, as is already available for ProQuest, Elsevier, Ovid, Springer, Project MUSE, JSTOR.
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Delete Bibliographic Records Job should be able to be restricted to the different Related Record Types
The "Delete Bibliographic Records" job can be executed with "Do not delete if related to other records", but the parameter takes into account any Related Record Type to other bib records. We think it would be a great improvement if "Do not delete if related to other records" could be used to optionally select the exact Related Record Types that should be used for running the job. This selection would be very similar to the functionality for consortia "Restrict Deletion of Network Zone Bibliographic Records with Related Records " with Configuration > Resources > Collection Retention > Bibliographic Record Deletion…
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Provide DOI agency integrations for Alma Digital
There is now a handle integration for Alma Digital as well as Esploro - great.
There are Crossref and DataCite DOI integrations for Esploro (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Esploro/Product_Documentation/Esploro_Online_Help_(English)/Esploro_Integration/Configuring_External_Systems_in_Esploro), but not for Alma D.
Please consider adapting these for Alma Digital resources. This would support institutions who might be hosting student theses and other scholarly comms in Alma D, and complement the handle integration.
14 votes -
Add barcodes to an items available facets in customize view.
When viewing items in Alma, it would be nice to add an items barcode as an available facet to see. All other impertinent item information is available (call number, title, author, etc.)besides item barcodes.
3 votes -
Metadata Editor option to Expand from Template available for Dublin Core records
In MDE, the option "Expand from Template" should be available for DC records.
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Digital Inventory Import Matching (Dublin Core)
If the Match Method for a digital inventory import profile is dc:identifier, then matching should only happen on the dc:identifier. dc:identifier should not match with other fields like dcterms:identifier (dcterms:URI)
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Retain loosing accounts identifier in all IZ and NZ after a merge
After merging two accounts the primary identifier of the loser account can only be found in those IZs via the search in which it was also merged manually. In such cases, the message that the two accounts have been merged is added to the Notes of the winner account; including the primary identifier of the loser account.
We think this information should appear in the NZ as well as in all other IZs so that it can be tracked which accounts have been merged. This is important, for example, in cases where fines and fees in Alma have been closed,…13 votes -
Implement OAI-PMH attribute completeListSize to element resumptionToken
As a data recipient of the Alma-OAI-PMH interface, I would like to see the extent of the response for a ListRecords query (also for ListIdentifiers), i.e. how many records are to be expected.
This information can be provided in accordance with the OAI-PMH standard (https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html) in the completeListSize attribute of the resumptionToken element.3 votes -
Disable the license terms from cascading down from POL to electronic collections and portfolios
The current situation is that after attaching a license to a PO Line, this license will override the license(s) originally attached to the electronic collections and the portfolios. We have 5000+ Chinese ebooks that come with a wide range of number of concurrent users. While we can update them using the 'Run a Job' function, but once the POL that is connected with the electronic collection is updated, it will override the license terms we have for the individual ebooks. So we would like to see if there is an option to delink the POLs and electronic collections from the…
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Lost in Transit Items Alert
I would love it if we could get an alert sent to the task list widget for staff in charge of fulfillment when an item has been in transit too long ("too long" as defined by the institution could be set somewhere in config settings). This would then alert the staff member to check shelves, and if not found on local shelves, contact the other institution to ask them to check theirs. If the staff member alerted wanted someone else to follow up on things, they could assign it to another user.
Right now, staff must remember to check the…
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Need job to force POLs out of Claims status
Over the years, many items of all resource types have fallen into Claims for one reason or another. For the purposes of cleaning up records, Alma should have a job that enables Acquisitions managers to force POLs out of Claim status, even for closed fiscal periods or POLs that are closed. The inability to move an item out of Claim due to it not following the strict receiving process is very inconvenient and makes the Claims function almost useless when its so cluttered.
4 votes -
Enable search within and hit highlight in IIIF Universal Viewer
Enable search within and hit highlight in Universal Viewer by enabling Content Search API. Example: https://ronallo.com/iiif-workshop/search/uv-search.html#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&r=0&xywh=-704%2C1430%2C4652%2C3913
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Add privilege to perform "Browse shelf listing" to physical inventory roles
When a user has the "Physical Inventory Operator" but no "Cataloger" role he/she can perform browse search in bibliographical and authority data but can NOT select "Browse shelf listing" - which is what one would expect.
It would be helpful for staff not working in the area of cataloging to be able to do call number browse search. There are several use cases:
.) Browse search can be very useful to look up complex call numbers of multi-volume works that are published in volumes and are further subdivided into sections. By looking at the index you can sometimes get a…16 votes -
Add permission to remove items from sets to more Alma roles
Several of our cataloging workflows are based on multiple catalogers working off of a public Alma set of items to be cataloged. After they catalog an item, they remove it from the set. The ability to remove records from sets created by others requires the Repository Manager role. Currently we have to add the Repository Manager role to catalogers to get the "remove from others' sets" functionality, and we don't want to grant the other advanced permissions along with that role.
Please add the ability to remove items from sets created by others to additional Alma roles that are lower…3 votes -
Allow internal users to have a phone number as default required field (not email)
We have a mix of internal users, some community users do not have email addresses. We find that it is nearly impossible to set up Alma accounts for them when they do not have an email. We would like to have the option to set those users to have a default phone number as the required contact field and the ability to print on demand any notifications they may be.
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Disable Electronic Activation Tasklist
It would be helpful to have the option to disable/enable the electronic activation tasklist. Whether or not the tasklist is incorporated into local workflows, the tasklist continues to grow with resources as they are ordered from the community zone. This leads to a very bloated tasklist with no clean way to clear items from the tasklist (i.e. resources that have already been ordered and received/activated remain on this list).
In a case with ExL (06794492) it was confirmed that items from the tasklist cannot be cleared in batch and each resource needs to be manually deleted.
By disabling the tasklist,…
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advanced search invoices
The basic Alma search (the bar at the top) needs to have the option for advanced invoice search. I often want to see which invoice have recently been paid, or which are outstanding, or limit by vendor, etc. I can't be waiting until the Analytics refresh to run a report. Thank you.
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update expiry from booking
For bookings, it is possible to update expiry from the request list in the user account, but it would be very practical to have this option in the active and expired hold shelves item lists for bookings, too.
22 votes -
Create CZ collection for IEEE Xplore MIT Press eBooks 2024
Create CZ collection for IEEE Xplore MIT Press eBooks 2024
6 votes
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