Content
We welcome your ideas for new content (metadata) to add to the Knowledge Bases (KBs - Alma CZ, SFX, 360) and Discovery services (CDI - Central Discovery Index whose data supports Primo and Summon).
- Check if your idea has already been posted and vote for it before posting a new idea.
- Choose the right category: "New Provider" for content from a provider that has no available content in the KBs or CDI, or "Existing Provider" for content from a provider that already has content available in the KBs or CDI.
- Add a direct link to the provider/resource you suggest, and a contact person if possible.
- For enrichment requests add the relevant collection ID(s).
- Make sure you mention any specific added value your idea has to the community such as language or supporting diversity.
- Did you find errors in an existing collection? please open a case.
- A new year has begun but no corresponding annual collection? post an idea in Idea Exchange, make sure to mention if it is an existing provider.
- Existing Provider - if your idea is for a new collection from a provider that already has content available in the KBs and CDI or enriching records for an existing collection, use this category. No voting is necessary, ideas for existing providers will be handled regardless of voting.
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- Other - for non provider specific ideas
259 results found
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Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law (https://www.bloomberglaw.com) is a major platform for American legal content, including books, journals, news channels, and other sources. Please add an Alma CZ collection covering the Bloomberg Law content made available by subscription to academic law libraries.
Please also explore the possibility of using Bloomberg Law MARC records to enrich the CZ records: https://www.bna.com/marc-records-bloomberg-m17179934017 Without enriched CZ records, libraries that are currently loading vendor records for this collection are likely to continue doing so rather than use a CZ collection.
Also, the linking and title lists of the following BNA e-collections are outdated. Bloomberg has shut down…
49 votesHello,
Closing this idea as we do not have the provider's cooperation.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Add books from Proquest's Oasis database to PCI
We are recommending Primo to our users as the route to suggest new books for purchase. However, PCI is not great for books, unless they are part of a publisher's e-book collection.
Proquest have their own database of books in print via Oasis - this would be a fantastic addition to PCI and would greatly facilitate purchase requests or resource sharing requests via Primo.
48 votesHello,
Oasis should be wholly represented in CDI.
If there are any specific content gaps in CDI, please let me know directly
Kind regards,
Tamar
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ETH Zurich Research Collection
We are proposing to add the content of ETH Zurich's repository for publications and research data to the SFX Global Knowledge Base.
The content can be harvested from http://research-collection.ethz.ch/oai/request?
Further information about this interface is available at https://documentation.library.ethz.ch/x/-YCM
46 votesHello all,
Following analysis and discussions with ETH we have mutually reached the conclusion that this content is not suitable for ingestion into the Ex Libris Delivery products.
Best,
Rael -
Classiques Sciences Sociales Free
Classiques Sciences Sociales Free collection is composed of more than 4,300 portfolios. Most of the records are very poor: only the title, one author, and the eISBN. The publication date in 008/7-10 is usually incorrect.
Full Marc records exist for these items and are available under certain conditions (for libraries) at http://classiques.uqac.ca/inter/telechargement_notices.php?lang=en
Note also that Les Classiques des sciences sociales actually contain more than 6,500 free works http://classiques.uqac.ca . A general update of this collection would be welcome.44 votesHello,
We have not made additional progress with this provider and are therefore closing this request for the time being.
Thank you,
Rael -
Scifinder Discovery Platform
Please add the "Scifinder Discovery Platform" to Alma as a collection with the following 3 portfolios:
· CAS SciFinderⁿ
· CAS Formulus
· CAS Analytical MethodsSome of the portfolios exist also as standalone databases in Alma; this should be maintained as it is.
43 votesHello,
The provider is not interested in maintaining a feed for a collection with three portfolios as requested.
Therefore I am closing this idea as we will not be able to support it without the providers' feed.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Add Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher (TOAEP) Open Access books to the KB
Add this Open Access publisher to the Knowledge Base;
https://toaep.org/ps/
https://toaep.org/pbs/
https://toaep.org/ops/
https://toaep.org/lotfs/
https://toaep.org/nas/39 votesHello,
Unfortunately, the provider has confirmed they are technically unable to send sustainable metadata for our Knowledge Bases and Discovery services.
Therefore I am closing this idea as we are unable to process it.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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LLMC Digital (Law Library Microform Consortium)
Please consider adding LLMC (Law Library Microform Consortium) Digital as a collection for Discovery and to the Knowledgebase>
For more information, see:
http://llmc.com/about.aspxThanks!
37 votesHello,
At this time, LLMC will not produce a feed for discovery so we will not be able to add their package to CDI.
We are unable to use the OCLC MARC records due to legal restrictions.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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add patent information to Primo Central
At its core the Primo Central Index content is all about scientific publications. But since the integration of the ProQuest resources the resource type scope became much wider
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/@api/deki/files/42859/Primo_Central_Index_Resource_Types.pdf
Patents applications are published by the national patent offices and they are publicly available. For a science and technology audience it would be very beneficial to search patent publications and literature publications in one index. First choice would be the publications from patent offices. Second best would be data from commercial aggregators.35 votesHello all,
Our goal in providing content for our customers is to ensure that it is as optimally searchable and discoverable as possible.
The search requirements for patents are not the same as the standard academic search parameters and fields, nor are the display needs and usage methods.
In order to support these, an optimized Primo user interface would be required, as was developed for newspapers.
Therefore we believe that ingesting patent content at this time would not promote better discoverability or usage.Such an Idea could be suggested on the Primo Idea Exchange Forum, and would need to be assessed accordingly.
Best,
Rael -
adapt DOI Registration Agencies
There are several kinds of DOI Registration Agencies.
https://www.doi.org/registration_agencies.html
But 360 Link only work with DOI of CrossRef.
Please adapt 360Link to not only CrossRef but these of DOI Registration Agencies.34 votesThe suggested idea is less about content and more about 360Link functionality.
As such the suggested idea will not be handled as part of the content forum but the enhancement request was communicated to 360Lnk Product manager who will consider the enhancement. -
Add a new collection from the Universität Heidelberg
Please add the collection Propylaeum-eBooks to the CZ.
Universität Heidelberg is an excisting provider, see Collection: "Open Journal System Heidelberg", Collection-ID: 614330000000001224.
Further information for data interface: https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/kataloge/datenschnittstellen.html
34 votesHello,
Unfortunately, the provider is unable to provide metadata for this collection.
They will let us know once they are capable of sustainably sending us their metadata.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add "subscribe by email" and other ways to monitor CKB release notes
It is crucial for us to monitor CKB release notes to ensure that collection activations are appropriately revised in response to changes. At present, the only way to monitor the notes is by RSS feed, which is cumbersome -- it is very easy to miss changes with only RSS feed updates. Please add other means of monitoring these changes, such as subscribing to the release notes by email.
33 votesHello,
Thank you for this suggestion.
I will forward this request to our IT group to see if it is possible to add this functionality to the Knowledge Center platform.We cannot track this request here, so I am closing this out.
Thank you,
Rael -
Missing target "Ubidictionary"
I kindly ask you to create a new target for the databases "Lo Zingarelli", "Dizionario della lingua Italiana", "Grande enciclopedia La Zanichelli"we have on the plattform Ubidictionary.
Please check out: https://u.ubidictionary.com/dashboard/#/indexThank you for considering my request and kind regards
Marianne / Zentralbibliothek Zürich32 votesHello,
Due to insufficient context, we are unable to complete this request as posted.
If this request is still relevant, please post a new idea with the relevant information for this resource.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Missing Target: OTTO_SAGNER_DIGITAL_OPEN_ACCESS_BOOKS
Dear support
Referring to the closed Salesforce Case # 00347610, I kindly ask you to create a target named "OTTOSAGNERDIGITALOPENACCESS_BOOKS".
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Stefan / Zentralbibliothek Zürich30 votesHello all,
Following an announcement from the provider, Kubon & Sagner GmbH, this collection has been retired and removed from our Delivery systems.
If you have any further information on parallel collections, please feel free to submit a new Idea to the system.
Best,
Rael -
Target: Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Please add the collection
{KBI Migration}21 votesHello,
Following several unsuccessful attempts to contact the vendor for the purpose of adding this content, we must close this request at this time.
Thank you,
Rael -
Update Kluwer navigator EZ7
Kluwer Nederland has the intention to exchange their metadata of the database Kluwer navigator EZ7 with ExLibris. In the past they were committed to OCLC - now they want to start with other discover tools.
The content of EZ7 is increased - an update is necessary25 votesHello,
Unfortunately the provider has a policy that does not allow Ex Libris to receive metadata on document level for their complete content.
Therefore we will close this idea.
Thanks for your support,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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PsycCRITIQUES (EBSCOhost)
Create EBSCOhost version of PsycCRITIQUES.
There is an e-collection for the APA version but we subscribe to EBSCOhost's version. I had to convert the APA e-collection to use the EBSCO parser and parse param.-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review Of Books
Bibliographic Records:1956 - 2004
Full Text:1956 - 2004-PsycCRITIQUES
Bibliographic Records:1956 - Current
Full Text:1956 - CurrentPsycCRITIQUES (EBSCO)
Reviews are the focus of this full-text database from the American Psychological Association (APA). The majority of reviews are of scholarly and professional books in psychology. In addition, there are psychology-based reviews of popular films and trade books. Coverage ranges from…25 votesHello,
Following a discussion with EBSCO, they have supplied the below response:
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This product was removed from EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery Service in 2018. The APA provides archival access.
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Best,
Rael
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Add South Asia Open Archives
CRL and JSTOR have partnered to create the South Asia Open Archives. This content is freely available on the JSTOR platform and is accessible by visiting saoa.crl.edu.
25 votesHello,
We have previously discussed this collection with the provider, but there is currently no available title list that can be used to ingest in our Delivery products.
At this time we will close this request, but should a title list become available we can reconsider this request.Best,
Rael -
Add CultureGrams for activations in Primo
Please add Culturegrams to the PCI
24 votesHello,
We are currently unable to support this request for this content in CDI, but a database is available in our knowledgebase products.
Thank you,
Rael
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Add Swank film database to Summon
Swank is in the Knowledge Base but not available to track in Summon. Can we make it available to track?
22 votesHello,
There are three Swank collections in the Knowledgebases:
SWANK_DIGITAL_CAMPUS_TOP_1000_VIDEOS
SWANK_DIGITAL_CAMPUS_TOP_1500_COLLECTION
SWANK_DIGITAL_CAMPUS_TOP_500_VIDEOSHowever, it is not possible for Swank to send metadata for discovery as their agreements do not allow sharing that level of metadata.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Add "RVM - le Répertoire de vedettes-matière" to Alma CZ
We suggest the addition of University Laval's RVM subject authorities to the Alma CZ:
https://rvmweb.bibl.ulaval.ca/rvmweb/contenu/contenu.do?chemin=/a-propos
We are a large bilingual (English-French) academic library, with more than 35% of our collection consisting of French materials. We create French cataloguing records, including French subject headings, for all titles in French that we hold.
Alma currently provides access to over 50 authorities in several languages, unfortunately RVM is not one of them. Consequently, our cataloguing process for French materials is much slower than the process for materials in other languages as we need to consult RVM website every time when searching for French…
22 votesHello,
Unfortunately, Ex Libris will not be able to include RVM in Alma CZ due to contractual disagreements which cannot be resolved.
RVM is available for local management for subscribing institutions.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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