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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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HeinOnline U.S. State Commitments with Foreign Governments
Please add the new HeinOnline e-resource, "U.S. State Commitments with Foreign Governments" to the Alma Community Zone.
Description: https://home.heinonline.org/u-s-state-commitments-with-foreign-governments/
Access URL: https://heinonline.org/HOL/USFgov?collection=usfgov
Contact: Steve Roses | Director, Sales, sroses@wshein.com | 716.882.26004 votesHello,
We will reach out to Hein and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
WISO Videos Wirtschaftswissenschaften
WISO Videos Wirtschaftswissenschaften is already added as a (portfolio)- selective collection to the ALMA CZ.
Please also bring in the CDI functionality as well.
The databases from GBI GENIOS are a very valuable resoruce within the German scientific community.Provider: GBI-Genios Deutsche Wirtschaftsdatenbank GmbH
Freischützstr. 96
81927 München
wiso@genios.de
+49 (0) 89 99 28 79 - 0Thank you very much!
Best,
Bärbel4 votes -
"Database for Research Thesis Catalog of Japanese Literature" for discovery
"Database for Research Thesis Catalog of Japanese Literature(国文学論文目録データベース)" is a union catalog database of research papers on Japanese literature.
https://ronbun.nijl.ac.jp/kokubun
This database includes information on research papers on Japanese literature, Japanese language studies, and Japanese language education.
It would be helpful for researchers if Ex Libris discovery included this database as a search target.
Provider: National Institute of Japanese Literature
Code: OFN4 votesHi,
We will reach out to the National Institute of Japanese Literature and ask for the records metadata for this collection.
Regards,
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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DART
Please add records to DART-Europe E-theses Portal (JWZ) and make it discoverable in Summon.
4 votesHi,
We will reach out to Association of European Research Libraries and ask for the records for this collection.
Regards,
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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Add "Educational Video Online" to discovery index
"Educational Video Online" is the product of MARUZEN Publishing.
It is a Japanese database which contains medical and nursing subject video contents, and the number of subscribing institutions is growing after COVID.
It will be beneficial to users if they can search for it in discovery services.4 votes -
Create new/separate automatic holdings collections for Taylor & Francis
I'd love to make use of the new Taylor & Francis automatic holdings feature, but the collections it points to are collections that we are already using. For certain providers, I prefer to use automatic holdings as a "back-up" to my own management. The "Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete" is the collection that the GOBI API uses. I'm also already using the "Taylor & Francis Current Content Access" for another reason. Springer and Wiley both have separate autoholdings collections. Could separate collections also be created for Taylor & Francis? Thanks!
4 votesHello,
We will take this with the Alma product team to decide what is the best approach for this request.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add KB Collection for Hirzel Verlag Journals
Please add a KB collection for Hirzel Verlag journals on the Biblioscout platform.
It appears they only publish one journal:
ZfdA Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur
https://biblioscout.net/journal/zfda
Start coverage year is 2005 and ISSN is 0044-2518.There's already a Community Zone collection named "Biblioscout - S. Hirzel Verlag Elibrary" (collection ID 616200000000000030) but Content Support clarified that it's only for ebooks and that a journal portfolio cannot be added to it.
Thanks.
4 votesHello Charlie,
We will reach out to Hirzel Verlag, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
ASM Technical Books
Please create a CZ collection for ASM Technical Books.
https://dl.asminternational.org/technical-books4 votesHi
We will reach out to ASM International and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Rachel Harati
Content Product Lead
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Create GeoScienceWorld Withdrawn Ebooks Collection
Work with provider to create a separate, "withdrawn titles" collection for GeoScienceWorld content that is not available to new customers but is available to existing customers.
[Ex Libris note: Related to support case # 07011161]
4 votesHello,
We will reach out to GeoScienceWorld, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
IGI global
Please consider adding a collection to the 360 KB for the IGI Global EBA for the Carolina Consortium.
Thank you!4 votesHello,
We will reach out to IGI Global and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
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 GanjaviMetadata Production and Electronic Access Specialist
Department of Metadata Services, University of Toronto4 votesHello,
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_IIKind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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new Sage 2024 collections
Can you please add these new Sage collections that we purchased in early 2024? I am not seeing them in Alma.
• Sage Business Skills 2
• SRM Video: Quantitative & Mixed Methods Collection
• Sage Business Data Decisions
• Social Justice Collection
• Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research4 votesHi,
The collection "Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research" will be available in Alma by the end of May 2024.
Regarding the other collections you mentioned, we will reach out to Sage and ask for the metadata for those collections.
Regards,
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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Chinese Text Project
Please add Chinese Text Project to the Alma Community Zone.
https://ctext.org/
Provider (in 360KB): Harvard University
The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world.Thank you,
Amelia Rodarte
Duke University Libraries4 votesHello,
We will add the database by end of May 2024.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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The Pragda Complete Film Collection Life of File - Canada
The following collection is missing in the CZ.
The Pragda Complete Film Collection Life of File - Canada
We hope that it would become available soon.
4 votesHi,
Thank you for the additional information,
We will reach out to Docuseek and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Regards,
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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Sustainable Development Goals Online from Taylor and Francis CDI collection
Please could SDGO be added as a collection in the CDI? This is a collection of mainly articles and book chapters, and so the contents cannot be activated through portfolios in the Alma CZ.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/sdgo/3 votesHello,
We have received the mapping for the discovery metadata for the general SDGO collection, and it will be added by November 2023.
Please be advised that currently there is no way for us to map the SDGO sub-collections, because the chapters and articles CDI metadata does not contain any tags to match them to the sub-collections.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add Docuseek Complete Collection 4th Edition Upgrade to Alma CZ
We have purchased the Docuseek Complete Collection 4th Edition Upgrade from Docuseek. Docuseek has many other Alma collections, including the original collection, the 2nd edition, and the 3rd edition upgrade. Could Ex Libris please work with Docuseek to load this new collection, the Docuseek Complete Collection 4th Edition Upgrade, into the Alma CZ and other KBs? The end result should be a collection with robust MARC records and portfolios we can activate. This is a video collection, and it is important that you work with Docuseek to load full MARC records for the videos--don't just load a KBART, as that…
3 votesHi,
We will reach out to Docuseek and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Regards,
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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New Database Request - Taylor and Francis Read and Publish 2024-2025 Science and Technology Reading List - 360 KB
A new Jisc agreement has been released for Taylor and Francis Journals covering 2024-2025.
We therefore need a new database in 360 KB to reflect the current collection and replace the now out-of-date database that covered the 2021-2023 agreement [Taylor & Francis:Jisc Collections:Transformative Agreement 2021-2023:Science and Technology Collection (Reading list) AKOOK]
3 votesHello,
We are planning to add this database no later than June 2024.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Emerald Ejournals Premier
Please add Emerald Ejournals Premier for 2024 to Intota.
3 votesHi,
We will reach out to Emerald and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Regards,
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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Improve the metadata of Scholarvox Université (Cyberlibris) collections
The quality of the metadata for the Scholarvox in the CZ is often extremely poor (only title, print ISBN and language is specified as English but the ebooks are in French).
In other electronic collections , we find records with only electronic ISBN. So it is confusing.
Find here the Scholarvox Université Collections :
• ScholarVox Université Arts
Collection ID : 614920000000003777• ScholarVox Université Emploi, métiers et formation
Collection ID : 614920000000003778• ScholarVox Université Géographie
Collection ID : 614920000000003779• ScholarVox Université Histoire
Collection ID : 614920000000003780• ScholarVox Université Informatique
Collection ID : 614900000000001697• ScholarVox Université…
3 votesHello,
We will check with ScholarVox/Cyberlibris if they can send us MARC records in a sustainable feed.
If you have a contact person we can reach out to, that would be very helpful.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Il diritto degli affari
We noticed that the articles in the open access journal 'Il diritto degli affari', ISSN 2281-4531, included in DOAJ, are not indexed in the CDI. Is it possible to have this content searchable?
Kind regards.
Carla3 votesHello,
We are reviewing the options to add the title's articles to CDI.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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