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portfolio's material type
Add "chapter" in portfolio's material type
Hello,
At the moment, when creating or editing a portfolio for a chapter, it is not possible to precise that it's an chapter portfolio (you can precise that it's a book but no chapter)
We would like to add "chapter" in Electronic Portfolio Editor > electronic material type's field.
Best regards,
Gianna3 votesHello All,
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Service is free?
Alma currently allows only two choices for the selection "Service is free?"; free and not free. But there are new business models available in publishing that need to be recorded. Subscribe to open is both free and not free, for example. Alma should allow more choices to identify publish and read, membership, subscribe to open, and other publishing business models and to support library management of resources.
4 votesHello All,
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Include a descriptor of service in move portfolio lightbox
When you are moving portfolios between services in a single collection, there's no way to identify which service is which if both are "full text" or "selected full text". There needs to be a descriptor in the drop down option.
1 voteHello All,
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Request for uniform ISBN numbers regardless of which Alma repository search is performed
At the moment, the situation is that the Alma repository search results show different kinds of ISBN numbers depending on the search you run, as shown in the following example:
(a) Electronic title search for 9780262363464
The result (MMS ID 99117091527405511) shows this entry (first 020a entry):
"ISBN: 0-262-36346-1 and others" – preferably this would be displayed as the corresponding 13-dig ISBN: 9780262363464 instead of this rather obsolete 10-digit ISBN(b) Electronic portfolio search for 9780262363464
The result (portfolio 53296177790005511) shows these ISBNs:
"ISBN: 0-262-54238-2" (776z) – this 10-digit ISBN is not really necessary here
"ISBN (13): 9780262542388" (=776z in…3 votesHello All,
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Discovery Interface Display Logic
Make Discovery Interface Display Logic for collections work on Collection ID instead of collection name
3 votesHello All,
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Add bib metadata to custom view for portfolios
Right now, there's no way to see edition (subfield 250) or publication/copyright date (subfield 260/264) from a list of portfolios.
These fields should be added to the customize view options for portfolio lists.
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Add a Create Electronic Portfolio Job
Post migration we had a lot of electronic resources that migrated to Alma as standalone bibs with no inventory or portfolios attached. Best practice in Alma for e-resources management would be to have portfolios attached to all of these records and to have as many of them sorted into local electronic collections as possible, so that global changes can be made from Admin by running a job.
The process of manually adding local portfolios to each of these records is cumbersome. This idea would be to have a Create Electronic Portfolios Job that could be run from Admin on a…
0 votesHello All,
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Upload Electronical holdings Ebook central into specific collections
Upload Electronical holdings Ebook central into specific collections the same way as Elsevier auto upload collections are handeled.
3 votesHello
The interation with Ebook Central is based on a single complete collection, there is no possability to seperate it to specific collections.
The subscription collection that the title was subscribed from is indicated at the level of the portfolio as part of the portfolio Acquisition tab Purchase Model section. -
Display e-ISBN (MARC 020 $a) in e-portfolio repository search results
Currently the ISBN displayed in e-portfolio repository search results is the print ISBN stored in MARC field 776 $z. Please change to display the e-ISBN stored in MARC field 020 $a, or display both the print ISBN (776 $z) and e-ISBN (020 $a).
The e-portfolio repository search finds the e-books. In a bib record for an e-book, the e-ISBN is stored in 020 $a, while the print version's ISBN is stored in 776 $z. It just does not make sense to display only the print ISBN, but does not display the e-ISBN in the e-portfolio results.
The example records are…
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Portfolios - Extended Export
Dear All,
we would like to export the inactive portfolios from a collection. This is not possible. All portfolios are always exported.
Ute Ristau
1 voteHello All,
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Add another SpringerLink Integration Profile
There is one Springer Integration Profile so far, and that profile is for the entire Springer title list. We have "SpringerLINK Contemporary - Community Plus." It is over 2200 titles. I'd like to see an Integration Profile for the collection we use.
3 votesHello All,
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Improve visibility of Publishing Information for electronic holdings
The Publishing Information for electronic holdings is extremely valuable for troubleshooting issues with the assignment of availability status for PCI / CDI records, and with the Link Resolver matching of the OpenURL data with Alma records and presentation of services.
With the Central Discovery Index (CDI) coming, and the associated transition of the management of discovery records out of the separate PCI interface and into Alma, many sites may take the opportunity to update and realign team responsibilities, with more staff in Alma having a need to see this information.
Visibility of this core metadata at a minimum helps staff…
8 votesHello All,
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The use of "%26" in Static URL is not permitted
I encountered some rare cases where the permalink of an article contains "%26" as part of the URL. When I keyed this into the Static URL field and hit Enter, this "%26" is immediately converted into the "&" symbol. Even if I tried to double code it (%2526), it doesn't help.
An example of this link is https://i-law.com/ilaw/browse_lawreports.htm?name=LLR%3a+Insurance+%26+Reinsurance+Plus
It will be converted to https://i-law.com/ilaw/browse_lawreports.htm?name=LLR%3a+Insurance+&+Reinsurance+Plus and the link is broken.
4 votesHello All,
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Enable 776 as a match point for Link Local Portfolios to Community function
Currently this only works for ISBN/ISSN matches in the 020/022 fields. Many CZ records do not have these fields but do have 776 fields with ISBNs. Enabling this as a match point would greatly improve automatic linking of entire sets.
6 votesHello All,
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Retain local information in collections when performing Link Electronic Resources To The Community
Retain local information in collections when performing Link Electronic Resources To The Community
1 voteHello All,
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1 vote
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Evaluation Workflow - Close trial, keep data
The existing Alma Evaluation Workflow does not allow us to CANCEL a POL for an unwanted item, it only allows us to DELETE the POL (and therefore lose the trial/evaluation data).
The Evaluation Workflow documentation (see step 7 in the link below) suggests that cancelling is an option distinct from deleting, but there is no cancel option in Alma.
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/020Acquisitions/060Evaluations_and_Trials/010Evaluation_WorkflowIt would be helpful to have an option that would close/cancel the evaluation process for items that are not acquired/purchased. This would allow for better record-keeping around trial results and better internal tracking of the rationale for not acquiring the…
4 votesHello All,
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Allow customers the option to set date parameters for displaying public notes and authentication notes
We often use public notes and authentication notes to let users know if a particular service is temporarily unavailable or scheduled to undergo maintenance. Direct linking is disabled whenever these notes are present. We then have to remember to go back into Alma and remove these notes when the service becomes available again. It would be much easier if we could schedule these notes to display only during a specified time period (i.e., during the service maintenance window). Ideally, this would also mean that direct linking is only disabled during the period in which the note is "active."
2 votesHello All,
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interface names - browse/export available options
Interfaces are selected by searching from pre-defined list - searching by entering all or part of the interface name.
I asked Ex Libris if there was a list anywhere of the available interfaces we can choose from and was advised 'A list is not available. Currently it's only possible enter part or all of an existing interface name and select the matching interface from the drop-down list adding Interface to a vendor. '
It is difficult to know what interfaces are available to select. It would be helpful if you could also 1) browse the full list of available interfaces…
12 votesHello All,
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Better distinguish between local portfolios and CZ portfolios in the portfolios list
When you are working in the portfolios list from the electronic service editor in an activated electronic collection and choose to add portfolios from the Community Zone, the list displays the local house icon for active portfolios and no icon for the inactive ones. However, from the electronic service editor portfolios list, active portfolios display with the CZ (double person) icon. Any local portfolios that you have added beyond the CZ collection display with the local house icon. I understand how it makes sense in different contexts, but it may be useful to have an icon that distinguishes between the…
2 votesHello All,
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