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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).


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43 results found

  1. MARCIVE GPO Database

    We would love to see MARCIVE's GPO database added to the PCI.

    For more details, see:
    http://home.marcive.com/gpo

    245 votes
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  2. start enrichment process for Hogrefe eBooks (Hogrefe eLibrary)

    ExLibris created an automation for updates that will run on a weekly basis and will check for any changes made to the title list by Hogrefe Verlag. However, the metadata are rudimentary. We are missing author or editor, place of publication and publisher in the metadata. This makes it difficult to find out the ebooks in Primo VE.

    Hence: could you please start an enrichment process with Hogrefe for their eLibrary eBooks titles?

    119 votes
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    Hello,

    After feedback from the community, we have reopened this idea.

    The provider MARC will add authors, 300, better language and 008, Publisher.

    Please be advised that although some improvement is expected, it will not enrich the records to robust Bibliographic records that meets library standards.

    We will complete the enrichment by end of May 2024.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  3. NERS 2021 - Pressbooks Directory

    The Pressbooks Directory (https://pressbooks.directory/) indexes over 2000 open access books created by educational institutions. As many of these are not indexed separately, it would be great if the contents of the directory could be included in the Alma Community Zone and/or the Central Discovery Index.

    NERS 2021 Request ID: 7539

    113 votes
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  4. Could we add Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online. http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/

    It would be great to add the AAT vocabularies to the CZ to enhance and enrich records for and about artistic endeavour.

    104 votes
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    Hello,

    We are working on a development which will allow non-MARC thesaurus to Alma.

    Hopefully we will be able to add AAT by end of October 2023.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  5. Add Africa Commons from Coherent Digital

    Please add the Africa Commons collection, along with the modules listed below, to Alma's Community Zone. These collections directly support diversity by making available historically significant resources created by and for Black audiences.

    Africa Commons: https://africacommons.net/
    -History and Culture: https://africacommons.net/modules/history-and-culture/
    -Black South African Magazines: https://africacommons.net/modules/black-south-african-magazines/
    Southern African Films and Documentaries:https://africacommons.net/modules/southern-african-films-and-documentaries/

    Here is the general contact email: information@coherentdigital.net

    Thank you!

    46 votes
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    Hello,

    We are planning to add the collections by end of May 2024.

    There were a few changes to the feed so it takes longer than expected.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  6. 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.aspx

    Thanks!

    37 votes
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  7. Editorial Tirant lo Blanch

    Editorial Tirant lo Blanch (https://editorial.tirant.com/es) is one of the main Law content providers in Spanish. The majority of the academic institutions are their customer.

    They produced databases, journals and books, and host them in their platforms (called Tirant Online, Biblioteca Tirant and Nube de Lectura). It would be very interesting to be able to index their contents.

    Adding their resources in the CDI would be very beneficial for all academic institutions studying Spanish Law.

    27 votes
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  8. Boomportaal

    Boomportaal is a new platform of Koninklijke Boom Uitgevers - it contains fulltext databases of Boom and new titles. Books and e-journals.

    https://www.boomportaal.nl/

    22 votes
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    Hello,

    The Boomportaal ebook collection is available as

    BOOMPORTAAL_E_BOOKS

    The journals collection is planned to be added by end of March 2024 in a separate collection.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  9. Please add a CZ collection for Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library

    Bloomsbury advise that they provide this set of records (92) to Ex Libris in October 2023, but I'm not able to find this in the CZ. Please can they be added? This is a sub-collection on the Bloomsbury Fashion Central platform.

    12 votes
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  10. Human Rights Watch reports

    Would it be possible to add the Open Access collection of Human Rights Watch reports? https://www.hrw.org/publications

    10 votes
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    Hello,

    The provider is not responsive so we will proceed with creating a zero-title database in the knowledgebases with a link to the website.

    This will be added by end of April 2024.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  11. Sabinet Discover

    Please add the following collections to the community zone from the provider Sabinet. Currently, there are only a few databases from Sabinet available in the CZ.

    South African National Legislation (NetLaw) 1910-current
    South African Provincial Legislation (Provincial NetLaw) 1910-current
    South African Municipal By-Laws 1995-current
    South African Judgements 1941-current
    South African Bill Tracker & Parliamentary documents 1998-current
    South African Labour Collection
    South African Press Association Archive (SAPA Newswires) from 1998-2015
    African News Agency Archive (ANA Newswires) from November 2015
    South African Media (news clippings) from 1977 to current

    Thank you.

    8 votes
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  12. Add the Getty Research Portal

    The Getty Research Portal™ is a free online search platform providing worldwide access to an extensive collection of digitized art history texts from a range of institutions. This multilingual and multicultural union catalog affords art historians and other researchers the ability to search and download complete digital copies of publications devoted to art, architecture, material culture, and related fields: http://portal.getty.edu/

    8 votes
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    Hello,

    The Getty Research Portal™ will be added as an authority vocabulary to Alma CZ in Q3 2023.

    Thanks for submitting and supporting this idea.

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  13. Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers

    Please add Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers (Global Press Archive) to the 360 Knowledgebase.

    URL: https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/liun/
    Provider: East View

    This collection is open access for all members of the Center for Research Libraries.

    It features local newspapers from Ukraine in the 1990s and 2000s. Most content is in Ukrainian or Russian, but other languages include Armenian, Crimean Tatar, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, and Polish.

    7 votes
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  14. Please create with JSTOR a collection for Open Access Research reports.

    Hello,

    Please create with JSTOR a specific collection for Open Access Research reports.
    Such collection should contains for example the publications of the "Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies" (see also case 06850177).

    Thanks,
    Dafna

    7 votes
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    Hello,

    This collection is planned to be added to the KBs by the end of February 2024.

    I will update this Idea with any progress we make.

    Thanks for your support,

    Tamar Ganor
    Content Product Manager

  15. Please add ABC-CLIO Asian American Experience to 360 KB

    Please add Asian American Experience to the 360 KB. 0-title for ERM purposes is fine.

    6 votes
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    Hi Ruth


    Thank you for the additional information.


    We will add the resource as a zero-title database by end of May 2024.


    Kind regards,

    Rachel

    Senior Content Support Analyst


  16. Add collection for the Daily Observer Digital Archive

    Please add the following newspaper to the Ex Libris 360 Knowledgebase. It is an open access resource. It's part of the Global Press Archive by provider East View Information Services

    Title: Daily Observer Digital Archive
    Coverage: 2/23/1981-12/31/2014
    URL: https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/doda/newspapers/lodo
    Provider: East View Information Services
    Code: PRVEVP

    Thank you!

    5 votes
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  17. Bloomsbury Open Collections 2023-2024

    Add an Alma Community Zone collection for the 194 backlist titles included in the JISC Bloomsbury Open Collections 2023-2024 collection.
    https://subscriptionsmanager.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/2972

    4 votes
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    Hello,

    We are planning to add these collections by March 2024.

    Please be advised that according to Jisc, this Bloomsbury Open Collections 2023-2024 agreement is for books, and they don't have title lists for these as they only store journal title lists in KB+.

    Therefore the collection's name will not contain Jisc/KB+.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  18. Add two Wiley Digital Archives ebook collections

    This is a request to add the following Wiley Digital Archives ebook collections:

    1) Environmental Science and History
    2) Royal Geographic Society.

    Thank you so much.

    Best Regards,
    Mahdi Ganjavi

    Metadata Production and Electronic Access Specialist
    Department of Metadata Services, University of Toronto

    4 votes
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    Hello,

    Wiley responded that the Environmental Science and History (ENV) collection is scheduled for completion in Spring 2024, we will add that collection then.

    Regarding the Royal Geographical Society, the metadata will be provided not directly by Wiley but by a 3rd party so it requires some legal clarification.

    In the meantime, we have created two zero title databases to activate for this request:

    dbid: RPVOM - WILEY_DIGITAL_ARCHIVES_ROYAL_GEOGRAPHICAL_SOCIETY_PART_I
    dbid: APJRU - WILEY_DIGITAL_ARCHIVES_ROYAL_GEOGRAPHICAL_SOCIETY_PART_II

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  19. ebony magazine archive

    Please consider changing this collection type from a database to a aggregated collection. It is an archive of one journal title, Ebony magazine. Not having the portfolio of Ebony magazine makes discovery challenging for our users because it is appearing in primo as a database and not a journal. The journal/portfolio title should be Ebony magazine archive: 11/01/1945 to 06/01/2014

    4 votes
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  20. New Target EZB-NLAFG-01900 Afghan Serials Collection

    Please create a new target for the collection: EZB-NLAFG-01900 Afghan Serials Collection from East View Information Services

    http://ezb.uni-regensburg.de/searchres.phtml?bibid=NLAFG&jq_type1=ANCHOR&jq_term1=natli_asc

    Kind regards,Melanie

    3 votes
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