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Stop requiring activation of both books and journals for the Update Electronic Holdings From Elsevier job
Change the job Update Electronic Holdings from Elsevier so that it does not require both CZ collections.
Currently, you must activate two CZ collections for the Elsevier update job to work: Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete and Elsevier ScienceDirect Books Complete. There is a similar job, Update Electronic Holdings for Ovid, but you do not need to activate both the journals and the books for the Ovid job.
We would like to activate the CZ collection for ScienceDirect journals only. The CZ collection for ScienceDirect books is mostly useless--the majority of the records are brief stub records. The Ovid job lets…
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Ensure dynamic urls are not broken when using the new "move portfolios to a different collection" feature
When using the new "move portfolios to a different collection" feature, the list of tasks that the move will perform includes a statement that dynamic urls may be broken and must be checked individually. This makes this feature unuseable except when moving very small numbers of portfolios. Since urls are essentially the most important data element in their portfolios, we need to be able to rely on the system not breaking them when using this feature.
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Aggregator package bulk load
Need a way to connect to vendor to automatically integrate package titles into Alma. This will be very beneficial for cost and usage purposes.
6 votesHello All,
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portfolio acquisitions
The Acquisitions tab does not have an indication that there is information on it (dog-eared) like the other tabs. Could this be updated so that this tab accurately reflects when there is additional information on it like the other tabs?
0 votesHello All,
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Display Electronic Collection name and Interface name in local portfolio list
I have a local record and a CZ record for a journal. My PO and notes are all attached to the local record. In the new UI, when I click “Electronic” for the CZ record, the Collection Names display. In the local record, I can fill in the interface name, but not the collection name if it was a migrated title. I can only see the Electronic Collection name if it was filled in on Alma when creating the portfolio. The interface name will not display in the search results list at all. I can only see it if I…
1 voteHello All,
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Make View it the default tab when viewing electronic items
Currently when viewing items you can set the electronic & physical tabs to expand by default. However the 'View It' tab/option is hidden in the menu. We don't need to see the portfolios we hold at a glance, we need to be able to view and access the item and it's holdings.
Please add 'View It' to the list of tabs and to the expand options, so we can see what we hold at a glance and have access to it without needing to search for the menu button.
If you could add the holding information for when we only…
13 votesHello All,
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Allow data from the POL notes to inform/be inherited by the portfolio notes.
Our Acquisitions process currently allows for receiving e-book purchase option information (platform and use model) from a vendor via POL notes. We would like this information to be inherited by the e-inventory in the notes field of the portfolio. There is currently no way to get that information out of the POL, and it is needed in the porfolio to streamline workflows.
17 votesHello All,
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Export the print ISSN for electronic portfolios. Many journals with E-ISSNs also have print ISSNs and some systems only recognize the print
Include the print ISSN for the electronic portfolio export. Many journals with E-ISSNs also have print ISSNs and some systems only recognize the print ISSN.
7 votesHello All,
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Enable Individual Portfolios for Publish to PubMed Profile
There is not a way to set up individual profiles for the Publish to PubMed Profile for individual colleges that share one Alma instance. This functionality is important and should be enabeled. Without it, patrons using PubMed will not be aware which results are available in full-text through their college's databases. The expected outcome of this improvement is that it would provide a way in the Publish to PubMed profile manager to set up individual profiles per college, like there is in the Publish to Google Scholar Profile.
26 votesNLM PubMed Library LinkOut supports placing the library link resolver icon on every PubMed citation therefore there is no need to
upload the library holdings to PubMed
Publishing to PubMed is no longer needed
for more information about how to setup PubMed Outside Tool to place a link on every PubMed record see
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Add the ability to record enumeration in portfolios
More and more frequently, we have access to multi-volume e-resources where each volume has its own static URL (and therefore, its own portfolio) and all the e-volumes are linked to the same bib record, the same way a multi-volume print resource's volumes would be. I'd like to see an enumeration field in portfolios so that volume information (not the same as coverage) can be recorded, indexed, and displayed.
6 votesHello All,
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Improve publishing to PubMed to give a single coverage statement for all portfolios active for the same title
The Publish to PubMed publishing profile outputs an xml file giving details of ejournal coverage per title. Where we have multiple active portfolios for a title, the output contains a set of "or" queries with the coverage for each portfolio, and these often overlap or duplicate each other. NLM will no longer accept files with these duplications and overlapping coverage statements and instead require a single coverage statement for each ISSN in the file.
Please add to the publishing profile the option to merge the various coverage statements to give a single start and end date per title that reflects…
69 votesNLM PubMed Library LinkOut tools supports placing the library link resolver icon on every PubMed citation therefore PubMed no longer supports uploading the library holdings to PubMed.
For more information about how to setup PubMed Outside Tool to place a link on every PubMed record please see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3803/#related.Outside_Tool.
Due to the above Publishing to PubMed is deprecated and will not include any improvements.
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"Send to Ex Libris" option under portfolio Action button
If possible, add the "Send to Ex Libris" button under the Action button for a portfolio. The option only appears if I do an electronic portfolio repository search. If I go to the portfolios from the services tab, the option is gone. That is a lot of extra steps of making changes to a portfolio and then sending those changes to Ex Libris.
4 votesHello All,
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Add Institution specific holdings feeds to Alma KB from more providers
Currently, the Alma knowledge base offers automated institution-specific holdings feeds from Elsevier and Ovid. These greatly reduce the amount of work required by libraries to maintain holdings.
It would be great if you could add feeds for JSTOR ebooks and EBSCO ebooks. These are currently being offered by other knowledge base providers.
9 votesHello All,
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9 votes
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Changing or moving the "Add all Portfolios from Community" button in Electronic Collections
When adding a new portfolio to an existing electronic collection there are several options. Two of these options are "Add Portfolios from Community" and "Add All Portfolios from Community". These options sit beside each other and are the same colour and design. The only difference between them is the word "all". 5 times in the last twelve months we have had the experience where separate operators have selected the "Add All Portfolios from Community" in error when they really only wanted to import a single record. The result has been that Alma commenced to import tens of thousands of records…
8 votesHello All,
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Public Notes in the Service Level
Allow Service Level Notes to be displayed at the portfolio AND collection levels, not just the portfolio level.
1 voteHello All,
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Update URL in porfolio when attached bib record's 856 is updated
When the URL in a bib record attached to a portfolio is updated (individually edited, or batch load/overlay of records), there should be a setting to the action so that the URL in an attached portfolio would also be updated and we don't have to remember to manually do this. We have had 2 recent instances, one where we used APIs to update bib records using our old PURL manager to use our new one, only to find that the portfolio URLs also needed to be changed separately, and one where we have a batch of vendor records with changed…
351 votesDear community,
Thank you for bringing this idea to our attention.
We analyzed it carefully, and identified that such enhancement might be risky. Therefore we decided that it will not be implemented for now.
Thanks for your understanding.
Tamar Fuches
Alma product team
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Remove extra stage when clicking on 'Attach to electronic collection' in a portfolio
At the moment, if you click on 'Attach to an electronic collection' from within a portfolio, a box opens up saying 'Select a collection and service' but the search box isn't actually searchable and you have to click on the blue arrow to open up the repository search to find the collection to link the portfolio to. It would save a few extra clicks either by making the first pop-up box searchable, or to just be taken straight to the repository search.
3 votesHello All,
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Display View-Only option for e-collections in NZ tab
It would help to be able to view the information about the e-collection in the NZ tab. Currently libraries can only see the portfolios included in the e-collection but they are unable to see information about the e-collection. It would help to be able to see the acquisitions data attached to the e-collection, including a link to the license.
2 votesHello All,
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Can we add an 'electronic collection' column on the Electronic Resource Activation Task List
Would like to add an 'electronic collection' column to the Electronic Activation Task List. It would be best to just be able to configure columns by user's preference if possible.
3 votesHello All,
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