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Create an electronic collection for the "Zhong hua jing dian gu ji ku"
The Zhonghua Classics Database contains the standard punctuated versions of many important Chinese classical texts in the fields of philosophy, history and literature (such as biji) as published by Zhonghua Shuju and other major publishers of punctuated editions. The database also includes the 360 volume Quan Song Wen《全宋文》set as e-books. Quan Song Wen is a collection of Chinese prose dating from the Song dynasty that was first published in 2006 by 上海辭書出版社.
In addition to browsing whole titles, this digitized version has been optimized to search simultaneously variant forms of characters (defaults can be changed in the advanced search), and…15 votes -
When entering dates of coverage in portfolios, make it all click through tabs
Before the Nov. 2016 release, when you entered dates/vol/issue numbers in the portfolio coverage, each space could be clicked into, then tabbed to the next one. Now each time you enter a year, the system saves and you must click into the next box. This slows down the work and adds more clicking. Can we go back to just tabbing until the final save?
14 votesDear community,
I am writing to inform you of a recent change that affects the status of an enhancement you have created or supported in the Idea Exchange:
As part of our ongoing commitment to align our internal development processes and increase roadmap transparency with our community, some Ideas that were previously marked as “Planned” have been reassigned a status of “Accepted”.
The “Accepted” status signifies that the Alma Product Management team recognizes the value of these Ideas and is committed to their development. However, enhancements are not expected to make it onto The Roadmap in the next year.
We believe that this change will ultimately benefit our user community by providing a more realistic and transparent view of Alma development. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we implement this change.
Most sincerely,
Tamar Fuches
Alma Team
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Electronic Portfolios - can we have a new coverage line where free access can be added ?
At present in the coverage tab, there are the global dates, local, and perpetual (if the collection has been identified as having some perpetual access) Some of these titles have free access, which is not technically perpetual but is also not part of a subscription. Could a new line be added to include these free years/volumes, with the option to display these dates (or not) ? It would allow us to reduce the number of Free collections we have which all take users to the same place, and identify why we have access to journal years outside of our subscription…
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Electronic Coverage Dates should be in a date format and be available in Analytics as such
Currently, electronic coverage dates are considered as strings and not as Dates. We request to treat them like dates and add them to Analytics, in order to base reports on these dates.
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Allow for searching by Service, Collection, and Portfolio levels distinctly
Repository searching is somewhat vague in what actually gets searched (e.g. Free field & proxy). Some fields that exist in collection & service level are searched but it is not clear in the repository search which level is being searched. Proposing the repository search is more clear in what level & field is being searched AND that the service level is able to be searched as equally as collection & portfolio levels.
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override proxy - portfolio
Occasionally, a portfolio will move OA in a collection. It would be great to have an option to override proxy set at the service level on the portfolio. Then, rather than having to turn off proxy at the service level and update portfolio by portfolio, you can just override proxy on each portfolio as necessary.
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Portfolio Bulk Load file limit too small
The file limit of 10MB is too small. If we're using the Bulk Load, it means we're dealing with very large amounts of portfolios. Having to split those files is cumbersome.
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Create ACS eBooks Collection 2024
I'd like ExLibris to create a CZ collection for "ACS eBooks Collection 2024" so that we can activate the content and make it available to our users via our discovery layer.
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Sorting electronic collections by "Public name (override)"
When searching for electronic collections, results lists can currently only be sorted by collection name or by rank. It would be very useful if the list could also be sorted by "Public name (override)".
Currently, for each entry in the result list, the name from the field "Public name (override)" is displayed first, followed by the collection name - which equals the public name - in parentheses. However, the alphabetical order is determined by the public name. This results in a collection list sorted by the names which are in second place and in parantheses. This is rather confusing and…
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Additional Report to ExLibris Option
Adding the option to "Report to Ex Libris" from the Electronic Titles search page would make reporting issues to them much more streamlined.
Currently you have to
1) Find out what collection it is in
2) Go to the portfolio list
3) Search for the title
4) Then you have the option to Report to Ex Libris by clicking the three dots9 votes -
Ability to Set "Current Year" Embargoes
In Alma, coverage settings for embargoes assume a "moving wall" style of embargo where new content is available every month. However, some periodicals operate on the basis of a "current year" style of embargo where coverage is fixed throughout the year, and only rolls over in January.
Currently, our only solutions to manage a "current year" embargo are to either set a shorter embargo, meaning unlicensed content would be discoverable in Primo or to set a longer embargo, meaning not all licensed content would be discoverable in Primo.
We'd like to see functionality that would allow us to set fixed…
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Split CZ Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles into three separate categories on the interface name
It would be easier for us to administer our PQ subscriptions if it was specified what they were. That is instead of showing "Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles" in the interface name, in our case we would have DDA titles, Ebook Central owned titles and Academic Complete listed instead. Could this be done via the metadata in these records? For example we may wish to see how many DDA titles are appearing on Reading Lists
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Alma Community Zone collection for Brepols open access ebooks
Brepols Publishing publishes open access ebooks and I am interested in making them discoverable via Primo VE. Alma’s Community Zone does not have a distinct collection for this content. Information about the books, along with an option to export the titles into an Excel spreadsheet, is available at https://www.brepols.net/products?p=1&r=12&s=&v=thumbview&q=$Availability:Open%20Access;$ProductType:Book
Creating a Brepols Open Access ebooks Community Zone collection would help to facilitate discovery of these resources.
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Implement Automatic Upload of Electronic Holdings for Kanopy
Kanopy is a collection of electronic streaming videos that is comparable to other autoholdings collections like Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books and ProQuest Ebook Central. There is a large overarching collection of streaming videos (suitable for a Community Zone AutoHoldings Electronic Collection) a subset of which individual libraries subscribe to. It would help if Alma offered an Automatic Upload of Electronic Holdings integration with Kanopy.
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Move set of Portfolios from CZ to Local collection-URL type
When moving a set of portfolios from a CZ collection to a locally made collection, ask and allow for the portfolio URL type to be changed and accurately reflect the change. For example, if the portfolios URL structure is set at Parser parameters in the CZ, and the local collection uses static URLs, change the portfolios to static (binary checkbox) and update the free text URL field to reflect the static URL. (By moving a set of portfolios from a CZ to a local collection, the resulting URLs still using parser parameters won't work, and the export URLs job won't…
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Make "Available To Date" actions customizable so portfolio can be automatically deleted after "Available To Date"
The "Control the Availability of Portfolios Automatically at a Pre-defined Date" feature, introduced in the February 2023 release (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2023/Alma_2023_Release_Notes?mon=202302BASE), allows libraries to enter an Available From Date and Available To Date in portfolios, and the portfolio will be automatically deactivated after the Available To Date. This feature is designed to be useful in cases where libraries lease a piece of content (typically, a streaming film) for a limited period of time.
However, after a portfolio has reached its "Available To Date," we don't just want to deactivate it; we want to delete it entirely from Alma (and its…
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Activated portfolios in a community zone collection
We would like to be able to see which portfolios are active in a community zone collection and which are not. For example, if 182 of 184 portfolios are active in a CZ collection, we want to be able to filter those that are activated institutional zones or in the community zone. Currently you need to compare Export Lists to see this.
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Add CDI articles to (digital) collections
We'd like to be able to add individual articles to (digital) collections, as there are often articles which are relevant to the collection topic, but currently cannot be included, as only items with bib records in Alma can be added to collections.
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Restrictions on access to electronic documentation on a user group basis
Restrictions on access to electronic documentation can only be made in Alma on a library or campus basis.
It would be desirable to be able to do this on a user group basis as well.
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Add Oregon State University OER textbooks collection
Is it possible to add the OER ebook collection from Oregon State University to the Community Zone? They're located at: https://open.oregonstate.education
6 votes
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