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Display collection "Public Name" instead of "Public name (override)" in Import Profile Details
We repeat the use of "Public name (override)" to aggregate several local collections under the same heading in our discovery layer. In the example I am dealing with, we use "Project Muse eBooks", but have separate collections for each year of titles. The import profile that we use to load these titles displays the override name, which means that I am unable to tell which collection we are loading into without editing the profile and selecting a collection anew.
I would love it if we could use the "Public Name" of the collection in Inventory Information tab of the import…
27 votes -
Option to NOT receive ticket updates 'Report to ExLibris'
Add a 'Report to ExLibris' option to NOT receive ticket updates.
Use case: I report that an ebook title in a huge Open Access collection is, in fact, not open access. I view this as a standard cleanup task. We've likely already suppressed the record from our catalog and don't need to track the ticket or receive updates. It generates many unnecessary emails.3 votes -
Implement Upload Electronic Holdings (Autoholdings) integration for Emerald
Implement Upload Electronic Holdings (Autoholdings) integration for Emerald, as is already available for ProQuest, Elsevier, Ovid, Springer, Project MUSE, JSTOR.
12 votes -
Add Available From/To dates (in General Tab) to Extended Export/Portfolio loader
The Available From/To fields in the portfolios general tab are currently not included in the portfolio extended export. Nor is it possible to populate the fields using the portfolio loader spreadsheet.
This makes it impossible to identify if these fields are populated in a portfolio without using Analytics. These fields should be included in Extended Export to make it easier to find, and should be available for the Portfolio Loader to make it easier to populate.14 votes -
Add an API access for creating a task in the Electronic Resource Activation Task List
We would like to set up an automatized workflow to import records and el. inventory into Alma. It would help in the daily management of these imports, if we could create a task for the e-resource staff via the API once the import finishes.
We would like to have a way to use the API to generate a new task in the Electronic Resource Activation Task List for an electronic collection or an electronic portfolio.
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PDA import profiles for electronic titles - limit matching to specific electronic collection
The ability to limit matching of imported MARC record against existing records with portfolios in a selected electronic collection was release for repository import profiles in the Feb 2024 release in response to a previous Ideas Exchange submission:
https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/15312516-repository-import-profiles-for-electronic-titlesEchoing the comments added to that Ideas Exchange post following the release, it would be really helpful if the same functionality could be release for PDA import profiles too, for the same reasons originally stated.
22 votes -
Add CSIRO Publishing BioSelect Collection to Alma
The newest eBook collaboration between CSIRO Publishing and BioOne is not yet available in Alma.
Please consider adding it your collection.
https://bioone.org/csiro-ebooks3 votes -
Add vendor UTB to Upload Electronic Holdings workflow
The vendor UTB has already e-collections in CZ which have dozens of activations in the EMEA region. We've already contacted the vendor, and they would be willing to implement the Upload Electronic Holdings workflow.
Vendor name: UTB
Website: https://www.utb.de
Contact: Tanja Klapputh, klapputh@utb.de
Alma Interface name: UTB GmbH23 votes -
mergent market atlas
Mergent has a new product that is replacing Mergent Online, which will be sunsetting in 2025. The replacement product is Market Atlas.
https://marketatlas.mergent.com. Are there plans to add this new collection?3 votes -
Ability to Set "Current Year" Embargoes
In Alma, coverage settings for embargoes assume a "moving wall" style of embargo where new content is available every month. However, some periodicals operate on the basis of a "current year" style of embargo where coverage is fixed throughout the year, and only rolls over in January.
Currently, our only solutions to manage a "current year" embargo are to either set a shorter embargo, meaning unlicensed content would be discoverable in Primo or to set a longer embargo, meaning not all licensed content would be discoverable in Primo.
We'd like to see functionality that would allow us to set fixed…
10 votes -
Add public note for link in record collections
Give customers the ability to add a public note to link in record collections that displays to the user whenever links from the collection are displayed in Primo.
Our use case for this is enhancement would be Unpaywall for CDI (Collection ID 61738162240004646). This is database collection with no portfolios that displays a link in record for open access content available from Unpaywall. The problem is the open access version of a publication can sometimes differ from the final published version. However, there is no way to communicate this to the user. Ideally, it would be great if Ex Libris…
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Disable Electronic Activation Tasklist
It would be helpful to have the option to disable/enable the electronic activation tasklist. Whether or not the tasklist is incorporated into local workflows, the tasklist continues to grow with resources as they are ordered from the community zone. This leads to a very bloated tasklist with no clean way to clear items from the tasklist (i.e. resources that have already been ordered and received/activated remain on this list).
In a case with ExL (06794492) it was confirmed that items from the tasklist cannot be cleared in batch and each resource needs to be manually deleted.
By disabling the tasklist,…
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Add collection for Disabilities in Society, 17th - 20th Century
This is a collection from Gale/Cengage that doesn't yet exist in the CZ: https://www.gale.com/c/history-of-disabilities-disabilities-in-society-seventeenth-to-twentieth-century#:~:text=Disabilities%20in%20Society%2C%20Seventeenth%20to%20Twentieth%20Century%20demonstrates%20how%20society,education%2C%20and%20forms%20of%20remediation.
3 votes -
Implement Automatic Upload of Electronic Holdings for OverDrive
OverDrive is a collection of electronic books and audiobooks that is comparable to other autoholdings collections like Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books and ProQuest Ebook Central. There is a large overarching collection of ebooks (suitable for a Community Zone AutoHoldings Electronic Collection) a subset of which individual libraries subscribe to. It would help if Alma offered an Automatic Upload of Electronic Holdings integration with OverDrive.
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Create an electronic collection for the "Zhong hua jing dian gu ji ku"
The Zhonghua Classics Database contains the standard punctuated versions of many important Chinese classical texts in the fields of philosophy, history and literature (such as biji) as published by Zhonghua Shuju and other major publishers of punctuated editions. The database also includes the 360 volume Quan Song Wen《全宋文》set as e-books. Quan Song Wen is a collection of Chinese prose dating from the Song dynasty that was first published in 2006 by 上海辭書出版社.
In addition to browsing whole titles, this digitized version has been optimized to search simultaneously variant forms of characters (defaults can be changed in the advanced search), and…19 votes -
Add Open Access eBooks from the publisher intercom Verlag, Zürich into the Alma Community Zone
The young publishing house intercom Verlag at Zürich (Switzerland) is publishing Open Access ebooks in the Humanities.
It would be great to add an eCollection of these ebooks to the Community Zone in Alma to make these fine books available.
https://intercomverlag.ch/about/
https://www.intercom-mono.com/3 votes -
Implement Automatic Upload of Electronic Holdings for Kanopy
Kanopy is a collection of electronic streaming videos that is comparable to other autoholdings collections like Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books and ProQuest Ebook Central. There is a large overarching collection of streaming videos (suitable for a Community Zone AutoHoldings Electronic Collection) a subset of which individual libraries subscribe to. It would help if Alma offered an Automatic Upload of Electronic Holdings integration with Kanopy.
10 votes -
Allow appending function to update portfolio Internal description field
Currently, there is no append option in the Information Update - Change Electronic portfolio information job. Hence, contents of portfolio Internal Description would be overwritten and extra work needed to lookup existing notes in the Internal Description field. If there is the append option, it will be easier to add new notes to the Internal Description without affecting already existed contents.
1 vote -
Allow license on NZ - managed electronic resources to be viewed by member institutions in their IZs
For electronic resources activated in the Network Zone where access is distributed to member institutions in the consortium, license terms attached to the e-resources cannot be viewed in the IZs of member institutions. License terms can be viewed by institutions only by searching Primo VE, only if "Enable Display of License Information" is enabled in their Fulfillment configurations. This is not an optimal way to search and view license terms for these resources are shared via the NZ.
Since institutions in the consortium have access to the resource via the Network Zone, it would be beneficial if staff at member…
10 votes -
Add Optica Open
Please consider adding an e-collection for Optica Open
https://opticaopen.org/Home/AboutThank you
3 votes
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