Allow network zone e-collections to be made available to inventory management groups within an institution using different proxies
When providing access to electronic resources from the NZ, resources are made "available for" member institutions and if applicable a proxy is set, meaning the institution's default proxy. However, these institutions may themselves be providing distributed access to e-resources via network inventory groups using different proxy integration profiles (such as different colleges using a single Alma institution, with inventory management groups mapped to campuses). In this case it is not possible for the member institution to use NZ e-resources since the proxy might not work for one or another campus, or one campus in the institution might have access and another might not. Perhaps institution-level inventory management could be visible to be used in the NZ inventory management groups; or perhaps there could be a configuration on the institution end that could connect the incoming NZ resources to the correct institution-level inventory management groups as needed.
Jeff Karlsen
shared this idea
Please note that this is planned for the upcoming November 2024 release.
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Current NERS cycle includes "Activation of e-resources in the Network Zone based on IMGs", request ID 8372, which covers this.
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Stephanie Roach
commented
This would be really helpful! We'd love to benefit from NZ electronic collections management when possible. Currently, because our institution has multiple proxy integration profiles configured, we are unable to take advantage of this.