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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 -
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.
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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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Add Optica Open
Please consider adding an e-collection for Optica Open
https://opticaopen.org/Home/AboutThank you
3 votes -
"Do not show as Full Text available in CDI even if active in Alma" for article records
We were informed by Ex Libris that the "Do not show as Full Text available in CDI even if active in Alma" CDI field does not work on articles. As this feature can already impact the discoverability of CDI records in Primo, it would be great if it could be formally developed so it behaves more predictably and less unexpectedly. When selecting "Yes" for "do not show as full text available in CDI even if active in Alma", we are still seeing CDI article records appear in Primo.
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Record all changes to an Electronic Collection in the History tab, by user or System and the change made
All changes to be recorded in the Electronic Collection History tab, including the user account or System making the change and what was changed.
Currently there are many "System" changes only recording the Modification Date by Old Value of the previous last change and the New Value of the date of change.
But there is no information as to what was changed.
I am not going to provide examples of what should be changed and risk only those changed being done, as simply everything should be recorded. This is the purpose of a History log.
Currently Ex Libris expects customers…
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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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Please create a new electronic collection: Liverpool University Press Modern Language Package
Please create a new electronic collection: Liverpool University Press Modern Language Package
Bulletin of Hispanic studies. Liverpool University Press: Full Text ISSN: 1478-3398
Bulletin of contemporary Hispanic studies. Liverpool University Press: Full Text ISSN: 2516-8037
Australian journal of French studies. Liverpool University Press: Full Text ISSN: 2046-2913
Catalan review. Liverpool University Press: Full Text ISSN: 2053-339X
CFC intersections. Liverpool University Press: Full Text ISSN: 2752-5538
Contemporary French civilization. Liverpool University Press: Full Text ISSN: 2044-396X
European journal of language policy. Liverpool University Press: Full Text ISSN: 1757-6830
Journal of romance studies. Liverpool University Press: Full Text ISSN: 1752-2331
Journal of…3 votes -
Sorting electronic collections by "Public name (override)"
When searching for electronic collections, results lists can currently only be sorted by collection name or by rank. It would be very useful if the list could also be sorted by "Public name (override)".
Currently, for each entry in the result list, the name from the field "Public name (override)" is displayed first, followed by the collection name - which equals the public name - in parentheses. However, the alphabetical order is determined by the public name. This results in a collection list sorted by the names which are in second place and in parantheses. This is rather confusing and…
11 votes -
Additional Report to ExLibris Option
Adding the option to "Report to Ex Libris" from the Electronic Titles search page would make reporting issues to them much more streamlined.
Currently you have to
1) Find out what collection it is in
2) Go to the portfolio list
3) Search for the title
4) Then you have the option to Report to Ex Libris by clicking the three dots9 votes -
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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Disable the license terms from cascading down from POL to electronic collections and portfolios
The current situation is that after attaching a license to a PO Line, this license will override the license(s) originally attached to the electronic collections and the portfolios. We have 5000+ Chinese ebooks that come with a wide range of number of concurrent users. While we can update them using the 'Run a Job' function, but once the POL that is connected with the electronic collection is updated, it will override the license terms we have for the individual ebooks. So we would like to see if there is an option to delink the POLs and electronic collections from the…
3 votes -
Ability to exclude Primo Journal Search from display logic rules
We would like the ability to exclude the Journal Search function from display logic rules.
Why?
In the Primo view the limit of links is set to 25, and it cannot be reduced (which deserves another Idea....). The only way to reduce it is through the user of display logic rules.
However, the rules also apply to the "Journal Search" in Primo, where users actually want to see all the available full text due to differences in coverage.27 votes -
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 -
bhanlon3@jhu.edu
Health Affairs Archive - Please add Collection:
The journal "Health Affairs" is currently in the collection "Single Journals". The publisher (Project Hope) has recently created an Archive for purchase. It is titled "Health Affairs Archive" and covers content from 1981-2020.
We need a portfolio for the Archive so we can purchase it, because we already have a subscription order this year on the existing portfolio.
Please create a Project Hope Collection in the Community Zone that includes two portfolios:
- The existing portfolio for Health Affairs currently in the Single Journals collection (CKB ID/CZ MMS ID: 99954921386894)
- A new portfolio titled…
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Flag individual articles in Alma as being unavailable.
ExLibris cannot verify accuracy between supplied metadata and a referenced database. As a result, there are times when an article is listed in Primo as available online; However, when the patron tries to retrieve the article, the database returns a not found error. This has been frustrating for our patrons.
Currently there is no way to flag an individual article as being unavailable. As a result, this becomes a recurring error for our patrons; with no option to correct.
Suggest providing a way to:
1. flag individual articles as available / not available by database
2. date and notes on…3 votes -
R2Digital PDA: Implement automatic upload of electronic holdings
Implement automatic upload of electronic holdings for R2Digital PDA titles. Currently staff receive monthly reports that require manual adjustment to the collections for both new and archived titles.
1 vote -
Add PsycTherapy collection for Ebsco
There is no working collection for PsycTherapy for Ebsco. Using the proquest collection does not solve direct linking and requiers constant updates off the linking to work
3 votes -
When running a Remove local coverage indicated, set Which coverage statement will be applied to "only global"
When running a Change Electronic Portfolio Information job with "Remove local coverage" indicated, in addition to removing all local coverage information, also set the portfolio's "Which coverage statement will be applied?" field to "Only global."
Leaving it as one of the local options incorrectly marks the portfolio as having local information if it is listed in the Community Zone Updates Task List.1 vote -
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.
4 votes
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