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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 -
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 -
Search and reporting option base on subscription model
Currently, there's an option to search portfolios with Purchase Model - e.g. JSTOR DDA Buy, or ProQuest Subscription.
But it's impossible, at least from what we tried, to search further with the information under 'Proquest Subscription Electronic Collection Name". It's odd to have a field (screenshots below) but unable to use the information to search, e.g. University Press Ebook Subscription.3 votes -
adding titles from community zone to institution zone collection without having to activate community zone collection
When finding another portfolio that is not in you collection you can today activate and move the portfolio to you IZ collection. Then you have to remember to delete the collection where it was in the first place. Make it possible to add it directly in to your IZ
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Add Expiration Date field to portfolios (for Streaming Video lease tracking)
Libraries lease streaming films for limited periods of time. We need to track the date each film's lease expires so we can delete the portfolio from Alma or take action to lease it for another term. We are currently using the portfolio coverage field to do this, but this is a workaround, not the designed functionality of the field. An Expiration Date field would allow libraries to enter the expiration date into each streaming film portfolio and use Alma searching and Analytics to track the expiring portfolios. It should be indexed in Alma, available in Alma Analytics, visible in the…
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Improve E-Resource Activation Task handling for additional copy ebook orders
Currently when an additional copy of an already active ebook is ordered, there is no e-resource task added to the Electronic Resource Activation Task List, since the resource is already active. However, we add interested users to almost all of our ebooks, and if there is no activation task, the interested users are never being notified.
If the ebook order is already on an active item, it would be nice if the interested users would automatically be notified, or just have an e-resource activation task added as normal to fulfill the process of notifying the interested users.2 votes -
Add Ebsco's Veterinary Source to the Community Zone
Ebsco offers a new database called Veterinary Source which isn't available as an electronic collection through the CZ. It would be great to have this database added.
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Has Local Information on CZ Updates Task List shows up even when Global Coverage is being utilized instead
If a portfolio is using global coverage information, but has local coverage information remaining, the portfolio shows up in the CZ Updates Task List under "Has Local Information" when updates come in, even though local coverage is not being utilized. If local coverage is not selected, it would make more sense for it not to show up in the list since it's not being utilized and therefore does not really matter at that point.
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Add portolios from CZ Updates Task List to associated collection in bulk
The Community Zone Updates Task List displays portfolios that were added to a non auto-active collection. But you can only handle these portfolios one by one. It would be helpful to select the desired portfolios and to add them in bulk to the associated collection.
The planned solution from ExLibris to manage collections as auto-active collections is not wanted because not all portfolios that are automatically activated are interesting to the library (e. g. when the library has a specific book stock and does not provide its readers with all scientific disciplines).1 vote -
Integration Profile for the Royal Society of Chemistry
Set up an integration profile for the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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Make electronic collection portfolios searchable by MMS ID
Within an electronic collection, we would like the ability to search for portfolios using MMS ID. This would be useful for some maintenance tasks. Currently, it is only possible to search by Title, ISBN and ISSN.
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Ability to put Mailto links in electronic portfolios within a collection.
We have vendors that have lots of individual titles that are associated with different products. We create electronic collections and add the portfolios. Users must email the provider to request an ID. While you can add a URL, you cannot add a mailto link in the general electronic service.
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When deactivating a portfolio on a list of portfolios in an electronic collection your place in the list should be preserved
When deactivating a portfolio on a list of portfolios in an electronic collection your place in the list should be preserved. Right now it returns you to the top of the list each time.
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Batch url checking for Portfolios in Electronic Collections
Can Alma test all of the links in all the Portfolios in an Electronic Collection, in batch, and report back a count of successes and fails?
AND (very importantly) give me list of the fails, so I can check/fix them?1 vote -
Add configurable Electronic Material Type field to Electronic Collections
Electronic Material Type is only configurable at the portfolio level, not the electronic collection level. In many cases, all the portfolios in an Electronic Collection share the same material type. Electronic Material Type should thus be configurable at the Electronic Collection level and inherited by all portfolios in the collection, indexed in Alma searching, included in Alma Analytics, included in the portfolio Extended Export, and modifiable using the Change Electonic Collection Information job.
With the addition of this field, libraries could assign appropriate Electronic Material Types to all our collections (except those that are a mix of material types, which…
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Add All4Maternity as an Electronic Collection in the Alma Community Zone
Please add All4Maternity as an Electronic Collection in the Alma Community Zone.
Here is the URL -
https://www.all4maternity.com/
Thank you.
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Ability to edit the full text service for a collection after it's been activated
We need the ability to edit a collection's Full text service to "Automatically activate new portfolios" after it's already been activated. We had a number of collections that were activated incorrectly during migration but didn't discover that until a year later because it took awhile for meaningful CZ changes to occur where we were finally able to determine whether migrated collections were configured correctly. There is nothing (?) in the collection record to indicate what service was activated. We're not able to change the full text service without reactivating the collection again which creates duplicates and involve too much retrospective…
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Adding collection URL to Alma publishing
When a bibliographic record that describes an aggregator package is published, the URL from the collection level is not included. No portfolios are attached to such records. We would like to be able to export access details from a collection in a publishing job.
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An import profile should be able to delete IZ copy of NZ-linked electronic records
For libraries that belong to a consortium, currently, the import profile to delete both electronic bibliographic and inventory records only marks the NZ-linked records for deletion. It does not delete the IZ copy of the NZ-linked records, even when the Allow bibliographic record deletion and the delete/deactivate portfolio options are selected.
To improve Alma for libraries with NZ-linked records, Alma's import deletion process should unlink the record from the NZ and then delete the resulting IZ copy. That would be consistent with the current behavior of existing deletion jobs like the "Delete Bibliographic Records" job.
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Assign to
In the "Electronic Resource Activation Task List" the list can only be assigned to specific users (or unassigned so everyone can see it), it would be nice to be able to assign it to a group of people, (perhaps by user role profiles, or a new profile type of 'group user' that links other profiles together, like user role profiles) as different tasks fall on different areas of the department.
This would also be helpful in "Reading Lists Task List", as in our case it is location specific handling of the tasks.
1 vote
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