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l.burns@hw.ac.uk
Royal Society of Chemistry 2026 - 2029
Can this collection be added to the Community Zone to allow activation.
Thank you
Lynn Burns
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l.burns@hw.ac.uk
Association for Computing Machinery
Can this collection be added to the Community Zone to allow activation.
Thank you
Lynn Burns
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Update metadata for Inlibra collections
The metadata for Inlibra in the CZ is extremely poor. Please contact Inlibra to update their metadata.
1 vote -
l.burns@hw.ac.uk
Sage Read & Publish Agreement 2026 - 2028
Can this collection be added to the Community Zone to allow activation.
Thank you
Lynn Burns
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l.burns@hw.ac.uk
Springer/Nature Agreement 2026 -2028
Can the above collection be added to the Community Zone to allow activation.
Thank you.
Lynn Burns
1 vote -
l.burns@hw.ac.uk
Cambridge University Press 2026 - 2029
Can this collection be added to the Community Zone to allow activation.
Thank you.
Lynn Burns
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l.burns@hw.ac.uk
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAS) 2026 - 2028
Can this collection be added to the Community Zone to allow activation.
Thank you
Lynn Burns1 vote -
l.burns@hw.ac.uk
Lyell Collection Agreement 2026 - 2027
Could this collection be added to the Community Zone to allow activation.
Thank you
Lynn Burns
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l.burns@hw.ac.uk
Elsevier Read & Publish Journal Agreement 2026-2028
Can this please be added to the Community Zone to allow activation.
Thank you
Lynn Burns1 vote -
l.burns@hw.ac.uk
Wiley Read & Publish Agreement 2026-2028
Can this please be added to the Community Zone to allow activation.
Thank you
Lynn Burns1 vote -
Add Bloomsbury Law 2026 Collections to Alma CZ
Can you please add all the Bloomsbury Law 2026 Collections to Alma CZ? (Including- ‘Bloomsbury Collections Hart Publishing 2026’) Thank you!
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Shipping Cost Lender Rules - Partner Organization Type
It would be great if ‘Partner Organization Type’ could be added as a parameter in the ‘Shipping Cost – Lender Rules.’ This would allow us to set the Partner Organization Type for new partners instead of having to select each new partner individually.
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Add a 'Save Workspace' Option in Alma?
I don't know about others, but I would like an Alma option to return to where I left off on logout, rather than having to burrow back in from the same landing page every time, in both Alma and Analytics.
This is minor friction, but after 8 years of this, I have to say it chafes.
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Community Zone collection for BioAcademic Press
Requesting a Community Zone collection for the journals published by BioAcademic Press, as listed at https://www.bioacad.com/journal/.
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AI Metadata Assistant
The AI Metadata Assistant is limited to processing four pages or four files per upload. Enabling batch uploading would better support larger metadata workflows.
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Authority control for name-title access points: link bibliographic 1XX+240 to authority 1XX $t
In Alma, bibliographic records containing 1XX + 240 do not establish an effective authority link with the corresponding name-title authority record (1XX $t).
As a result, when the authorized access point for a name-title authority is updated (for example, a change in the title portion in 1XX $t), the update is not propagated to the linked bibliographic records. The 240 fields in affected bibliographic records remain unchanged and must be identified and edited manually.
This behavior results in:
· High manual maintenance effort
· Increased risk of inconsistencies between authority and bibliographic data
· Reduced effectiveness of authority control in…
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Create new reports for Authority management
National libraries and institutions managing controlled vocabularies require robust tools to ensure the integrity of their authority files. Current Alma functionality (Authority Control Task List) focuses primarily on the link between bibliographic and authority records. We propose a new set of dedicated Authority Management Reports to identify internal inconsistencies, errors, and redundancies within the authority files themselves.
Proposed Reports & Functionality
· Orphan Authority Records: Identifies authority records without any associated bibliographic records. Crucial for cleaning up legacy data or unused headings.
· MARC Encoding Errors: Detects structural errors within authority records (e.g., missing mandatory fields like 008, invalid indicators,…
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Update All Relevant Indicators When Correcting Preferred Terms Linked via Cross-References
The recent enhancement to Preferred Term Correction correctly updates bibliographic headings when the preferred and non-preferred terms are in different authority fields (for example, 410 → 130), and changes the bibliographic field tag accordingly (e.g., 610 → 630).
However, the current implementation does not fully synchronize MARC indicators between authority and bibliographic records.The enhancement documentation states:
"When a bibliographic field is updated to an X30 field, the non-filing indicators in the bibliographic record will be adjusted based on the linked authority record. According to MARC21 standards, the 1st indicator of authority field 130 (Nonfiling characters) will be copied to…2 votes -
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
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