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  1. New Provider/Collection: African Books Collective Ltd

    Provider: African Books Collective Ltd
    Platform: African Books Collective
    Resource: African Books Collective Digital Library
    Recommend addition to both CDI and CZ

    African Books Collective is an "an African-owned mission-based distribution outlet for books published independently in Africa. The publishers from across the continent who are part of the collective have over its 30 year history contributed some 3000 titles, which continue to be available in print. Over 2000 of these are available digitally on this platform and new titles will be added regularly."

    https://www.africanbookscollective.com/about-us
    https://ebooks.africanbookscollective.com/

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

    Hello,

    We are in contact with African Books.

    They are currently going under a platform change, and once it will be over they will work on sending us metadata for their collection.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  2. legislation.gov.uk

    http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ contains UK legislation. the content is freely available. If users are looking for acts of Parliament or Statutory Instruments it would be useful to be able to find these in Summon and direct users to the legislation.gov.uk site to obtain the PDF.

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  3. ERA: Education and Research Archive

    The University of Alberta Libraries, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is the second largest research library in Canada.
    Index records in the University of Alberta's institutional repository ERA: Education and Research Archive. https://era.library.ualberta.ca/oai

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  4. Summon Content: Include BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) data for Open Access documents

    BASE (https://www.base-search.net/) is one of the most comprehensive search engines for scientific documents and especially contains valuable information on open access documents (flagged as such). If Summon would include this part of the BASE data many if not most of the open access repositories wouldn't have to be addressed individually. As a competing index contains the BASE data it shouldn't be impossible to get them for Summon.

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  5. Add BIOSIS Previews (Thomson Reuters) to Primo Central/PCI

    We would like to see the BIOSIS Previews database added to Primo Central/PCI.

    For more information, see: http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/databases/26.jsp

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  6. American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection

    This database is available from EBSCOhost. It comes in 5 series. It would be helpful to have all 5 series available for discovery.

    https://www.ebscohost.com/archives/aas-historical-periodicals-collection

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  7. Add Percipio

    Please add a new database for Percipio which is replacing Skillsoft Books on the Skillport platform.

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  8. New Play Exchange

    Please add the New Play Exchange database to the Community Zone

    https://newplayexchange.org

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  9. Add LibrariE to discovery index

    "LibrariE" is the ebook service mainly used in Japan. The number of user institution is expanding and we have received requests from some users to add "LibrariE" to discovery index.

    https://www.jdls.co.jp/about-librarie/

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  10. Add collections from Beck eLibrary / ...

    The collections

    "Beck eLibrary / Deutscher Ärzteverlag Medizin"

    "Beck eLibrary / Deutscher Ärzteverlag Zahnmedizin - Behandlung und Praxismanagement"

    "Beck eLibrary / Deutscher Ärzteverlag Zahnmedizin - Chirurgie, Anästhesie, Kieferorthopädie"

    "Beck eLibrary / Vahlen Gesamtpaket Jura"

    from provider "Beck" was purchased by libraries in North Rhine-Westphalia. Please add the ebook collections to the Alma CZ.

    For more details about the resource see: https://www.beck-elibrary.de/

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  11. Conference Board of Canada e-Library

    We would like this collection to be indexed in Summon.

    From their website: "The full-service e-Library subscription provides electronic access to research products from The Conference Board of Canada and The Conference Board, Inc. (based in New York). Over 8,000 documents are currently available on the e-Library and more than 350 are added annually."

    Topics covered: economic trends, organizational performance and public policy.

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  12. Westlaw ebooks to the CZ

    Please add Westlaw ebooks to the CZ

    https://uk.westlaw.com/Browse/Home/Books?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&navId=DFF074054830BCFBA77DA6B6709C8287&comp=wluk&startIndex=161&querySubmissionGuid=i0ad740160000017ca235b7280ea5d6c0

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  13. 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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  14. EAI Educational Streaming Site

    Please add the collection/database: EAI Educational Streaming Site from Electronic Arts Intermix to Alma.
    https://eai.org/education

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  15. Please add Metropolis to the Knowledge Bases (KBs - Alma CZ)

    Please add Metropolis to the Knowledge Bases (KBs - Alma CZ).
    About: https://www.metropolis-verlag.de/Verlag/home.do
    Access: https://www.metropolis-verlag.de/
    Contact: https://www.metropolis-verlag.de/Kontakt/home.do
    Language of the content: German
    Best regards.

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  16. Please add LexisNexis Matthew Bender Online to CDI.

    Hello,

    Please add LexisNexis Matthew Bender Online to CDI.

    Thanks,
    Dafna and Judith

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

    Hello,

    We will reach out to LexisNexis for discovery metadata, but please bear in mind that it will probably not be feasible because LexisNexis does not produce this kind of metadata.

    Thanks,

    Tamar Ganor 

    Content Product Manager

  17. Add ebook collections under "Brill Book Archive Collection, part 2"

    This is a request to add ebook collections under "Brill Book Archive Collection, part 2" to the Alma CZ. The collections are listed bellow:
    Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
    Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity - Book Archive pre-2000
    Biology - Book Archive pre-2000
    Classical Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
    European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000
    Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - Book Archive pre-2000
    International Law - Book Archive pre-2000
    Language and Linguistics - Book Archive pre-2000
    Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
    Middle East and Islamic Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 …

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  18. West Study Aids

    Please add West Academic's "West Study Aids" ( DBID: 7M- ) to the Summon Index.

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  19. Search Compendex in Primo Central

    Please add Compendex to Primo Central. Ei Compendex is an engineering bibliographic database published by Elsevier. It indexes scientific literature pertaining to engineering materials. Beginning in 1884, it was compiled by hand under the original title of Engineering Index

    https://www.engineeringvillage.com/search/quick.url

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  20. Add eLibrary Curriculum to Primo for activations

    Please add eLibrary Cirriculum to PCI for activations and discovery

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