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Relationship designators should not be searched in Field 5XX, subfield $a
In Authorities, when relationship designators are used to specify relationships between agents in field 5XX, with subfield $i (relationship information), Alma searchs the relationship designators included in $i instead of searching the agent name included in subfield $a (personal names; corporate names, etc.). The subfield $i is not part of the name of the author or contributor, it is a separate element that denotes a relationship between agents. It is for this reason that we propose that names be indexed by the name included in subfield $a instead of subfield $i.
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Community Zone Authorities vs Network Zone Authorities
When authority records are managed from a Network Zone (NZ) in a cooperative way—that is, when several institutions create and maintain authority records of different types (names, subjects, etc.)—it is confusing for catalogers when authorities from the Community Zone appear.
For this reason, we would like the possibility to choose from which zone we view authority records, mainly in these two screens:
• In Browse Authority Headings in the NZ, we would like to have different tabs to choose which zone we want to consult, the NZ or the CZ
• In Browse Authority Headings in any IZ of the…2 votes -
Contribute URL Type (Override) to community-managed collections when contributing portfolio changes
I locally changed the Free E- journals link for bioRxiv (PID: 53441287610000041) to a dynamic URL:
IF(rft.doi)
https://doi.org/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:doi/{rft.doi}
IF()
https://www.biorxiv.org/This allows the links on all the bioRxiv CDI records to go directly to the article. However, I can't contribute this change to the community because the "URL type (override)" won't go with it. So, my idea is to include that setting with any portfolio changes contributed via community-managed collections. This will allow the community to write more dynamic URLs and perhaps get those Free E- Journals links to link directly to articles, rather than to the journal's homepage.
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Put related holdings in its own tab not displayed among the actual holdings in Alma
Add the option to turn off the display of related records holding in the holding display for a title in Alma. Having it among the 'true' holdings is very confusing and for most part not relevant when needing to locate the title at hand - In that case I'm not interested in a completely different title just because they share a relation to that title in our collection.
A tab with the related records information would make a less cluttered view7 votesHi all,
This idea was mistakenly closed. It has now been reopened, and we apologize for any inconvenience caused.
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Improve search "electronic titles" to include results with and without inventory
At the moment, when using the search "electronic titles" only titles with inventory can be found. Apparently, this is by design. It would be an obvius improvement to be able to find all electronic titles regardless of inventory when using this search.
30 votes -
Add purchase model to more auto-holdings.
It is great to have purchase model added automatically for Ebook Central og JSTOR Books holdings, and it would be even better if we could get purchase model also when using auto-holdings for publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis and de Gruyter. We have evidence based acquisition agreements with all of these publishers and it would be very helpful if we could see which titles were in the EBA corpus and which we have purchased, either through the EBA or by earlier collection purchases.
107 votes -
Display Open Access Indicator based on Setting at the Portfolio Level
Currently, the Open Access (OA) indicator displays in Community Zone records when the record contains a 506 field with the following formatting:
506 0_ $f Unrestricted online access $2 star
Records in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) collection are automatically enriched with this data, but not records in any other collection. The rationale is that the OA indicator may appear on records that are not available as OA in all collections, leading to a confusing display. However, this can lead to cases where institutions do have OA access, but cannot display the OA indicator.
To avoid both of…
183 votes -
Let CDI Link in Record URLs use linking parameters and additional link syntax for OpenAthens libraries
THis idea would go along with https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/49980354-collection-level-authentication-method-options-for. We need to be about to specify a customer ID for CDI Link in Record URLs because if you are an OpenAthens library, Proquest and Gale links have to have a customer ID in them or they don't work. So for example for Proquest link in record URLs, Primo should be able to append &accountid=XXXXX to the end of the URL and put in the customer ID we specify in the linking parameters for Proquest.
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The option to change the permanent location in the item should not be a default, it should be selectable.
To change the permanent location in the item can lead to incorrect results. If you have two holdings with different locations and then change the location of the item which is connected to the first holding to the location of the second holding, your item will be relinked to the second holding AND the first holding will be deleted automatically. If the first holding contained additional information (e.g. the call number), this information will be lost.
The option to change the permanent location in the item should therefore not be a default, it should be selectable depending on the needs…117 votes -
Ability to create additional note fields in the physical item editor
At the physical item Editor, we currently have access to one public note, one Fulfillment note, 3 internal notes and 3 statistics notes. We would need 3 additional public note fields visible to the user in Primo and 3 additional internal note fields.
43 votes -
Decouple temporary item policy and temporary location
Sometimes we have to set a temporary item policy for items that stay in their permanent location. This requires setting "Item is in a temporary location" = yes and setting the temporary location to the permanent location for the temporary item policy to apply. We would like the ability to set the temporary item policy without needing to set a temporary location.
Furthermore, no warning message is given when "Item is in a temporary location" = no and a temporary item policy is selected. This can lead to confusion because the temporary item policy is not emptied after the setting…
11 votes -
No automatic cancelling of request when changing item location (or a more useful error message).
When we change location for an item we always get an error message that says that the change can lead to requests being cancelled (if there are any). But since it always shows, even when there are no request (which is most of the time in our experience), it is easy to ignore.
We would like to be able to choose if a request should be cancelled or not, even if the new location shouldn’t allow requests for the user.
Another possibility is that that the error message only shows when it is relevant and there actually are requests that…7 votes -
Link single or selected local portfolios in a CZ collection to the community instead of all local portfolios in a CZ collection
Currently, when linking local portfolios in a CZ collection to the Community Zone (CZ) using “Link Local Portfolios to Community”, it is only possible to run the job on all local portfolios in that collection, rather than just a single portfolio or a selection of portfolios. (Linking a single portfolio only works for stand-alone portfolios, not for local portfolios in a CZ collection).
It would be useful if an option could be added to link a single local portfolio in a CZ collection to the CZ. Also, it would be helpful if the "Link Local Portfolios to Community" option in…
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Analytics Search Results - allow export or open in new tab
When using "Search" in Alma Analytics it would be useful to EITHER:
Be able to export the results of the Analytics Search into excel
OR
Be able to click on a search result and for the report to open in a new tab.Currently if you select a report from the search results it opens and you lose the search results page. If it is not the correct report then you have to start the search from scratch again and sometimes the search takes a while.
Having some way of exporting a record of the results - so you can…
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Protecting Additional Identifiers from the SIS loader
We receive patron information from multiple sources and files. When we run our SIS sync to add and update patrons, it removes all of the additional identifiers on the account because those come from another file. This results in us needing to overlay additional identifiers using a separate process. We would like to have the ability to protect the additional identifier fields from the SIS sync .
19 votes -
Metadata update for the “Kohlhammer eLibrary Gesamt” collection.
The metadata for this Kohlhammer collection is very poor for publications from 2025 onwards:
Collection ID: 614920000000005630
MMS ID: 9929441643200041Please ask Kohlhammer to update the metadata.
Thank you in advance.1 vote -
Add a filter to remove consortia-specific e-collections from CZ search results OR remove consortia from "Interface" facet
It would really improve the CZ search experience (when looking for the right package from the large publishers of e-journal/e-book packages) if there was a way to toggle off the results from all of the consortia-specific e-collections. For large publishers like Springer, the consortial results completely overwhelm the search results.
OR, at the very least, to separate consortial names from the "Interface" facet - these consortial names aren't actual interfaces - the links in these collections go to publisher platforms. Would it be possible to tag the consortia name in some other way? In a new field?
9 votes -
Add the edition statement to the citation display in alma
Could you add the edition field to the display of citations within Alma? It would make it easier to check that the newest edition is the one listing. Law books, for instance, might have a new edition each year and there is sometimes a cataloguing mismatch between the copyright and the publication dates with print/eBooks which is easier to disentangle if you can see the edition. The edition displays in the Title search results in Alma and in the citations on Leganto.
42 votes -
Creating an invoice via the POL
Creating an invoice via the POL
Would it be possible to have a "create invoice" button/option within the POL via the invoice line tab. This would make creating invoices from PO more streamlined. Currently creating invoices "from PO" involves accessing approximately 5 screens. My idea would only require locating the POL, clicking on the invoice line and then selecting a button to create invoice
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Job to build relationships between host item and component parts to be run 3 times daily
The Monograph in Series team is experiencing delays in checking that host items and component parts have successfully linked. The Job using the 773 field (Host Item Entry) and related record : 'MMS - Build Record Relations' currently only runs once a day at 22:00. We suggest this Job should be run 3 times per day to facilitate more speedy checking and prevent delays in the workflow.
4 votes
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