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Restrictions on access to electronic documentation on a user group basis
Restrictions on access to electronic documentation can only be made in Alma on a library or campus basis.
It would be desirable to be able to do this on a user group basis as well.
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Add Oregon State University OER textbooks collection
Is it possible to add the OER ebook collection from Oregon State University to the Community Zone? They're located at: https://open.oregonstate.education
6 votes -
Display service temporarily unavailable message, add time option
Is it possible to add the time when the collection will be unavailable? For example, we received notice that the ASTM would be unavailable February 23rd, 7:00 p.m. to February 24th, 2:00 a.m. If I set up the Display Service Temp unavailable message for the 23rd and 24th, the collection would be made unavailable when we still have access. Adding a time option to the date would be helpful.
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Mechanism to find instances when Synchronize from CZ has failed
When you've activated a CZ collection, updates to the collection/portfolios should be pushed to your IZ/NZ by the Synchronize from CZ job, but it's a known issue that sometimes this doesn't happen. The workaround is to delete and re-activate the collection, but this relies on an end user finding and reporting the error. Until this systemic issue is resolved, it would be good if Alma would report on instances where the job has failed so the library could proactively find and fix collection/portfolio-level issues before end users discover them.
6 votes -
auto holdings for Oxford eBooks
Please consider adding Oxford eBooks to autoholdings
6 votes -
Display only one of each resource recommender type
Currenlty the default is two of the first listed Type listed in Resource Recommender displays in PrimoVE. Would like to change it so that just one of each type of Resource Recommender displays to diversify results patron sees on page.
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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…
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Create functionality to remove portfolio General Note entries using the Portfolio Loader or the Change Portfolio Information Job
Currently, there isn't a way to remove General Note entries in batch. It would be ideal if there were a way to remove General Note entries using either the Portfolio Loader or the Update Portfolio Information job, instead of having to do this work manually.
6 votes -
Add support for importing .mrk files
At the moment Alma only supports importation of resources as .mrc files. These files are trickier to work with than .mrk and add a lot of unnecessary time to our import workflows (converting back and forth, "saving as" frequently, losing changes - especially for large imports).
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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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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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Display NZ activated Portfolios even if Related Records Services are enabled in an IZ
In our consortial environement, we have activaded a number of portfolios on NZ level, which we would then expect to also be available in our IZs. Often this is not the case and instead of a specific article that is part of the portfolio, only the journal it belongs to is displayed under Services for Related Titles. As Ex Libris informed us, this is because Related Records Services are activated in our consortium, which leads the link resolver to display those related journals instead of checking if there is an NZ activated portfolio. Their solution to this would be to…
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Saving Queries on the Community Zone
Please, let us save queries on the Community Zone as a logical set.
It is well understood that no one but Ex Libris is supposed to be able to run jobs on the CZ data and most likely that is why you currently cannot save a query on the Community Zone as a set. However, saving queries can often serve as just a shortcut for submitting a (more complex) query again and again, and for electronic resource librarians it is interesting to check the CZ regularly for newly added collections which are freely available, e.g., or adhere to any other…
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WISO Videos Technik
WISO Videos Technik 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 -
Bulk add perpetual access dates
We would like to be able to add perpetual access dates in bulk to individual portfolios. This functionality would be helpful for tracking perpetual access on packages/bundles where a large number of portfolios share a common start and/or end date.
4 votes -
Ability to relink multiple portfolios to another bib instead of one at a time
I'd like to have the option to relink multiple portfolios from one bib record to another instead of one at a time. This happens when I want to use a different bib record than the one in the CZ.
4 votes -
Include submitter name with Report to Ex Libris form
Any Alma user who can access the action menu of a portfolio or electronic collection can submit the Report to Ex Libris form, but the Salesforce case is opened with the CRM contact chosen on the form. Unless the submitter includes their own name in the form's description field, it becomes impossible for the CRM contact to determine who opened the Salesforce ticket.
Please include the name or primary ID of the logged-in Alma user in the Salesforce ticket. This will facilitate follow-up with the staff member who reported the issue.
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Delete bibliographic records - Limit Match of Bibliographic Records to a Specific Electronic Collection
In scenarios where a vendor has provided ISBNs of titles they have removed from an e-book package but it is likely that the same titles are included in other e-book packages, it would be good to be able to limit the deletion to a specific electronic collection. This feature would have to recognise to only delete bibliographic records matching a specific collection where the records do not have active portfolios belonging to other electronic collections. Use case: ability to batch delete locally held e-book records from vendor A only if they are NOT also part of vendor B’s e-book package.
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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.
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Create option to keep CZUTL deleted portfolios active in Institution Zone
When portfolios are deleted from a non-auto-active electionic collection and notifications for this appear in the Community Zone Updates Task List, the portfolios stay unlinked in your institution zone but are deactivated. Often these are portfolios that represent access that still exists for the institution and we merely reactivate the local portfolio. We would like to be able to select an option to keep these portfolios active in our institution zone. If they are really no longer necessary, we can delete them when we review the CZUTL, but it would save us time if the portfolios were not deactivated automatically.
3 votes
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