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  1. Add eBooks from Reichert Media Library to Knowledgebase

    Please add content from Reichert Media Library (https://medialibrary.reichert-verlag.de/) to the Knowledgebase.

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  2. Create a way to distinguish volumes for a single title

    There is a title in Gale resources, Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history : the Black experience in the Americas, that has several portfolios available. Each portfolio links to a different volume in Gale. Each portfolio has unique linking but if you see the title in Primo, you will see only the title listed, many times. I had to add a volume note to each portfolio so users could tell each title apart. This was not the only title I've found that is like this. Ex Libris stated there is no way to add the volume to the title. It…

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  3. Better Metadata for HANSER_ELIBRARY_BOOKS

    The bib records in the electronic collection Hanser Elibrary Books are very poor and sometimes even wrong.

    i.e. MMS-ID 993440000000000927:
    LDR -----cam-a22-----z--4500
    008 210309u1916uuuuuuuuu-|-o----u|----|dut-d
    035 __ |a (CKB)3440000000000927
    245 00 |a VoIP Praxisleitfaden
    776 __ |z 3-446-44491-2
    776 __ |z 3-446-44814-4
    906 __ |a BOOK

    Authors, title and other bibliographic information are missing, year and language are wrong.

    The publisher Hanser offers libraries much better metadata, therefore I suggest to improve it in the CZ.

    14 votes
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  4. Add Critical Collective to CZ

    Critical Collective is a platform specialising in Indian Art

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  5. Indexing Bibliotek.dk

    Please index national database of Denmark, bibliotek.dk.

    Database is already in Intota (Bibliotek.dk (FDS)) and in Alma (Alma Collection ID: 6114022520000041

    DBC recommend us to get the data via DBC OAI repo https://www.dbc.dk/produkter-services/webservices

    DBC OAI Repo
    OAI-service gives access to harvest bibliographic data.
    Documentation: https://github.com/DBCDK/rr-oai/wiki/DBC-OAI-Repo
    The national bibliographic data are freely available and doesn’t need to be authorized. There is a limit of how many records can be harvested at a time, but you can set a script to harvest continuously.

    53 votes
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  6. Bookport Digital library

    Bookport is one of the most important sources of Czech e-books (mostly) for libraries across all types and collections.
    The content can be used by municipal, school, university, scientific or national libraries.
    Please add and index this database to Primo Central, SFX KB and Alma CZ. Thanks.

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  7. Enrichment of Community Zone bibliographic records for JoVE collections

    Please enrich those JoVE bibliographic records in CZ. Futhermore, please help to update/maintain those all JoVE collections which they are not up-to-date.

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  8. add ACM open access backfile

    Can you make this new collection selectable in 360? Lots of new OA content is now available but the current ACM:Digital Library: OA collection only has 4 titles.

    ACM Opens First 50 Years Backfile

    April 7, 2022
    ACM has opened the articles published during the first 50 years of its publishing program. These articles, published between 1951 and the end of 2000, are now open and freely available to view and download via the ACM Digital Library.
    ACM’s first 50 years backfile contains more than 117,500 articles on a wide range of computing topics. In addition to articles published between…

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  9. Add WIT Press eLibrary

    Hello,

    Please consider contacting WIT Press in order to add the WIT Press eLibrary to the Alma CZ and CDI for indexing.

    The WIT Press eLibrary is a fully open access collection of scholarly content on sustainable engineering and environmental engineering.

    https://www.witpress.com/elibrary

    It contains journals and transactions that are all registered with CrossRef (meaning that they have DOIs).

    The transactions are monograph series (have both ISSNs and ISBNs).

    Thanks for considering.

    If you do add this collection, please also incorporate the open access MARC notation for the bibliographic records if you add them to the Alma CZ:

    506 0#$fUnrestricted online…

    3 votes
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This idea has been selected in the NERS voting process to be pursued as a new content provider. 

    We will check with WIT Press eLibrary if they can provide us with metadata for the Knowledgebases and CDI.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  10. Add BibliU, the etextbook and monograph provider

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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The content provider has paused the production of the metadata feed, we will reach out to them again in Q3 of 2024.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  11. Add International Journal of Music to 360 KB

    Please add International Journal of Music database to 360 KB with full title list. Each title has it's own domain separate from the overall site/database URL.

    Site/database URL: https://ijm.education/

    Title URLs:

    https://flutemagazine.online/
    https://oboemagazine.online/
    https://clarinetmagazine.online/
    https://bassoonmagazine.online/
    https://saxmagazine.online/
    https://trumpetmagazine.online/
    https://hornmagazine.online/
    https://trombonemagazine.online/
    https://tubamagazine.online/
    https://percussionmagazine.online/
    https://violinmagazine.online/
    https://violamagazine.online/
    https://cellomagazine.online/
    https://bassmagazine.online/
    https://guitarmagazine.online/
    https://pianomagazine.online/

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  12. National Service Center for Environmental Publications

    It would be helpful to have the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (https://www.epa.gov/nscep) in the CDI, for access to US Environmental Protection Agency documents in full text.

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  13. Add provider Ulster Institute for Social Research, London England to Knowledgebase

    Mankind Quarterly (0025-2344) is currently included in the database Single Journals (SJN).

    Would you consider adding the Provider 'Ulster Institute for Social Research, London England' and make the journal 'Mankind Quarterly' available in this way?
    Holding URL: http://www.mankindquarterly.org/
    Date(s): 09/01/2005 to Present
    Contact email: info@ulsterinstitute.org

    Thank you!

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  14. Add Marketline advantage

    Please index Marketline advantage database and make its search results appear in Summon. At the moment it is a 0 title database. XV8

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  15. Add Canada Commons to central index and Community Zone

    Add https://canadacommons.ca/ Canada Commons to the central index and CZ. This is an important resource for Canadian Government Documents.

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  16. Digitale SAP Bibliothek / Espresso Tutorials

    Hello,

    please add this collection to the ALMA CZ and SFX CKB.

    The database contains over 250 e-books and learning videos in German and English on various business topics and IT issues related to SAP.
    As SAP is the leading developer of software for handling all business processes of a company such as accounting, controlling, sales, purchasing, production, warehousing, transport and human resources, it is a valueable resource for users and learners.

    See: https://et.training/
    Thank you,
    Bärbel

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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This idea has been chosen by the new provider NERS voting round for 2024.
    We will reach out to Digitale SAP Bibliothek / Espresso Tutorials and ask for the metadata for this collection.

    If you can provide a direct contact, that would be very helpful.
    Thanks,
    Tamar Ganor
    Content Product Manager

  17. evidya Sage: ebooks collection

    Sage India has a platform for their ebooks and provides the ebooks published in India and other countries.
    Please create a new database for this and add the titles.

    Platform: https://evidya.sagepub.in/evidya/index
    Contact information: https://evidya.sagepub.in/evidya/contact
    Contact email: marketing@sagepub.in

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  18. elib4u

    Indian e-resource provider elib4u gathers e-books/e-journals and provides them at http://elib4u.com/.
    Ex Libris KBs(360/SFX) and CDI should have the records from the provider.

    home: http://elib4u.com/
    contact (form): http://elib4u.com/ContactUs.aspx
    contact (mail): contactus@elib4u.com

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  19. Add TGC Books Play Collection

    A collection from TGC Books, the largest independent trade publisher of dramatic literature in North America.

    The collection includes 18 winners of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, and also boasts a diverse range of voices which are often overlooked in less contemporary collections.

    Our drama students are always looking for newer plays available in a digital format - and with the exception of this collection, the CZ in Alma has most of the collections available from Drama Online. This would be a welcome addition.

    Many thanks,
    Olivia

    https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/tcg-books-play-collection

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  20. Add conference proceedings from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

    ECMWF conference proceedings are open access. Having them indexed in the CDI would be an enormous help and bring together content that is valuable to us and our members.

    An example of one conference they run: https://events.ecmwf.int/event/258/timetable/

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