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Enable 776 as a match point for Link Local Portfolios to Community function
Currently this only works for ISBN/ISSN matches in the 020/022 fields. Many CZ records do not have these fields but do have 776 fields with ISBNs. Enabling this as a match point would greatly improve automatic linking of entire sets.
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Add search option for Activate new portfolios associated with service automatically
Alma Staff search options for Electronic Service fields are limited. It would be useful to quickly search for when Activate new portfolios associated with service automatically listed under the Activation tab of the Electronic Service is either blank, no or yes.
5 votesHello All,
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Expand portfolio material type to inlcude "newsletter".
We have a collection that mainly consists of newsletters. But the portfolio material type does not contain "newsletter". Please expand portfolio materials type to include "newsletter"
5 votesHello All,
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Add edition & more metadata elements for matching purposes
When metadata is coming into Primo through an OpenURL, mismatches occur "due to ambiguity on title matching after no match was found based on identifier (ISBN). Title matching is not as reliable as ISBN matching, and can lead to different editions being returned" (ExLibris Tier 1 Analysis).
This proposal is to add edition information and other metadata elements from the bib in Alma for matching purposes
5 votesHello All,
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Updating Community Zone records in batch
When there are obvious deficiencies in Community Zone records it would be good if we were able to update them in batch using a user-defined manual job.This is currently not possible see SF 681264
5 votesHello All,
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Add searching by ISSN in the E-activation task list
Would like the ability to search by ISSN in the e-activation task list added
5 votesHello All,
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E-Inventory Import Profile defect - inability to distinguish multiple services
When setting up an electronic import profile that relies on an electronic collection with multiple services, it is unclear which service I'm selecting. Please correct or "enhance" the obvious defect and make these services distinguishable. One option would be to include the custom description field from the service level.
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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…
5 votesHello All,
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Evaluation Workflow - Close trial, keep data
The existing Alma Evaluation Workflow does not allow us to CANCEL a POL for an unwanted item, it only allows us to DELETE the POL (and therefore lose the trial/evaluation data).
The Evaluation Workflow documentation (see step 7 in the link below) suggests that cancelling is an option distinct from deleting, but there is no cancel option in Alma.
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/020Acquisitions/060Evaluations_and_Trials/010Evaluation_WorkflowIt would be helpful to have an option that would close/cancel the evaluation process for items that are not acquired/purchased. This would allow for better record-keeping around trial results and better internal tracking of the rationale for not acquiring the…
4 votesHello All,
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The use of "%26" in Static URL is not permitted
I encountered some rare cases where the permalink of an article contains "%26" as part of the URL. When I keyed this into the Static URL field and hit Enter, this "%26" is immediately converted into the "&" symbol. Even if I tried to double code it (%2526), it doesn't help.
An example of this link is https://i-law.com/ilaw/browse_lawreports.htm?name=LLR%3a+Insurance+%26+Reinsurance+Plus
It will be converted to https://i-law.com/ilaw/browse_lawreports.htm?name=LLR%3a+Insurance+&+Reinsurance+Plus and the link is broken.
4 votesHello All,
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Service is free?
Alma currently allows only two choices for the selection "Service is free?"; free and not free. But there are new business models available in publishing that need to be recorded. Subscribe to open is both free and not free, for example. Alma should allow more choices to identify publish and read, membership, subscribe to open, and other publishing business models and to support library management of resources.
4 votesHello All,
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Provide option to automatically select a record when using the bulk portfolio uploader in cases of multiple matches
The bulk portfolio uploader won't add a portfolio/record if there are multiple matches to an identifier in the CZ. For example, if the uploader file has a journal ISSN that matches two records in the CZ--the job will result in a no action error showing the record numbers of the candidates. We would like to have the option of instructing the system on how to handle the overall file: to make an arbitrary record selection for us when applicable or keep with the default option of reviewing multiple matches manually. Thanks for your consideration.
4 votesHello All,
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Add Doctoral Thesis as an Electronic Material Type option
Currently there is no option for PhD thesis as an Electronic Material Type, only Masters and dissertation, Doctoral type would be a useful addition.
4 votesHello All,
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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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We hope the Electronic Operator role can use the Community Zone Updates Task List feature.
At present, the Community Zone Updates Task List feature is only available for the three roles:
* Repository Manager,
* Purchasing Operator,
* Purchasing Manager,
These three roles have too many privileges.
We hope the Electronic Operator role can use the Community Zone Updates Task List feature.4 votesHello All,
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portfolio's material type
Add "chapter" in portfolio's material type
Hello,
At the moment, when creating or editing a portfolio for a chapter, it is not possible to precise that it's an chapter portfolio (you can precise that it's a book but no chapter)
We would like to add "chapter" in Electronic Portfolio Editor > electronic material type's field.
Best regards,
Gianna3 votesHello All,
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Make Linking Levels in Service Record more general
The Linking Level in the service record is a hierarchy clearly designed for journals. Books are thrown in as an afterthought, and there is no room for streaming media. The hierarchy would be improved by making it independent of media type. Change the linking levels in the following way:
Change "Article" to "Article/Chapter"
Change "Article DOI" to "Article/Chapter DOI"
Change "Issue" to "Issue/Part"
Leave "Volume" the same
Combine "Journal" and "Book" into "Work (Journal/Book/Media)"
Change "Database" to "Database/Collection"
Leave "Citation" the sameThis would accommodate collections which contain streaming media, and collections which contain more than one format, such as…
3 votesHello All,
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Request for uniform ISBN numbers regardless of which Alma repository search is performed
At the moment, the situation is that the Alma repository search results show different kinds of ISBN numbers depending on the search you run, as shown in the following example:
(a) Electronic title search for 9780262363464
The result (MMS ID 99117091527405511) shows this entry (first 020a entry):
"ISBN: 0-262-36346-1 and others" – preferably this would be displayed as the corresponding 13-dig ISBN: 9780262363464 instead of this rather obsolete 10-digit ISBN(b) Electronic portfolio search for 9780262363464
The result (portfolio 53296177790005511) shows these ISBNs:
"ISBN: 0-262-54238-2" (776z) – this 10-digit ISBN is not really necessary here
"ISBN (13): 9780262542388" (=776z in…3 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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Add another SpringerLink Integration Profile
There is one Springer Integration Profile so far, and that profile is for the entire Springer title list. We have "SpringerLINK Contemporary - Community Plus." It is over 2200 titles. I'd like to see an Integration Profile for the collection we use.
3 votesHello All,
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