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Ability to add an accessibility note at the electronic collection level
Because some MARC bibliographic records may be attached to e-portfolios in multiple e-collections, adding a 532 in the MARC record may not apply to all e-portfolios. Many e-collection providers will include accessibility information on their site. Perhaps an accessibility note could be added at the e-collection level separate from the Authentication and Public notes.
7 votes -
extended export to single file rather than multiple files for large collections
We would like to be able to run an extended export for large local collections that have more than 50,000 portfolios and receive a single file, rather than having to spend time manually pasting them together in excel to actually use them. the arbitrary limit serves us no purpose and adds steps to our workflow. we have very limited tools to manage local collections and this is something that has bothered our staff for years.
6 votes -
maria.nordgren@umu.se
When adding a portfolio from CZ from a collection that is not in your IZ. The whole collection is imported to IZ. We use this for moving a portfolio from one collection to another. Example one portfolio is missing in ClinicalKey Dentistry, but is found in ClinicalKey Books, I can activate the portfolio, but then the ClinicalKey books collection is transfered to IZ. We would like to be able to activate a single porfolio without that the collection is imported
6 votes -
Allow institutions to create their own local electronic material types
At the moment, the current list of electronic material types are:
Book
Journal
Dissertation
Proceeding
Conference
Report
Document - This type is sometimes used for portfolios in electronic collections in the Community Zone when the type is not otherwise know. If you see this type in a collection and believe that it is incorrect, please open a Salesforce case to correct it.
Series
Newspaper
Transcript
Database
Wire
CD-ROM
Manuscript
Sound Recording
Map
Other Visual Material - Includes slides and pictures.
Musical Score
Streaming Video
Streaming Audio
Data Set
Website
Video
Primary (Master) Thesis
Government DocumentIt is currently not possible…
6 votes -
Disable Electronic Activation Tasklist
It would be helpful to have the option to disable/enable the electronic activation tasklist. Whether or not the tasklist is incorporated into local workflows, the tasklist continues to grow with resources as they are ordered from the community zone. This leads to a very bloated tasklist with no clean way to clear items from the tasklist (i.e. resources that have already been ordered and received/activated remain on this list).
In a case with ExL (06794492) it was confirmed that items from the tasklist cannot be cleared in batch and each resource needs to be manually deleted.
By disabling the tasklist,…
5 votes -
Automated holdings management for VLeBooks
Could we please enable automated holdings management for:
Database name: VLeBooks
Database code: 38.
Provider:Askews and Holts Library Services Ltd
Default URL: http://www.vlebooks.com/I have had difficulty activating e-book titles for this provider in the 360 KB, due to metadata inconsistencies.
ProQuset and Ex Libris Support suggested that the content team and developers are looking for opportunities to extend the support for the "Automated Holdings Updates" process that is now set up for PQ Ebook Central.
Since there are now similar processes available for Taylor & Francis books and Springer Nature content, would it be possible to enable this process…
4 votesHello,
VLeBooks is on our list for adding as an autoholdings collection in the next year.
I will update this idea as we reach progress.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Saving Queries on the Community Zone
Please, let us save queries on the Community Zone as a logical set.
It is well understood that no one but Ex Libris is supposed to be able to run jobs on the CZ data and most likely that is why you currently cannot save a query on the Community Zone as a set. However, saving queries can often serve as just a shortcut for submitting a (more complex) query again and again, and for electronic resource librarians it is interesting to check the CZ regularly for newly added collections which are freely available, e.g., or adhere to any other…
4 votes -
Bulk add perpetual access dates
We would like to be able to add perpetual access dates in bulk to individual portfolios. This functionality would be helpful for tracking perpetual access on packages/bundles where a large number of portfolios share a common start and/or end date.
4 votes -
Include submitter name with Report to Ex Libris form
Any Alma user who can access the action menu of a portfolio or electronic collection can submit the Report to Ex Libris form, but the Salesforce case is opened with the CRM contact chosen on the form. Unless the submitter includes their own name in the form's description field, it becomes impossible for the CRM contact to determine who opened the Salesforce ticket.
Please include the name or primary ID of the logged-in Alma user in the Salesforce ticket. This will facilitate follow-up with the staff member who reported the issue.
4 votes -
adding titles from community zone to institution zone collection without having to activate community zone collection
When finding another portfolio that is not in you collection you can today activate and move the portfolio to you IZ collection. Then you have to remember to delete the collection where it was in the first place. Make it possible to add it directly in to your IZ
4 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.
4 votes -
"Interface name" field separate from Vendor records
Have an option for the "Interface name" field in local electronic collections to be independent of Vendor records. Our vendor records are itegrated with multiple systems outside of Alma (such as our HR software, Workday). We would like to use the "Interface name" field for display purposes/logic, and possibly reporting in Analytics, but we're limited with it only be populated by Vendor records.
4 votes -
Display access model in All-titles basic search results
When you are performing a market search, the access model shows up on the holdings records if they are either attached to the POL or have been manually added to the record. This is incredibly useful and time-saving for searching! When doing an All-titles search, you have to click into the record in order to access that information. This line for access model can be easily added to the listed metadata in the All-titles results page. See attached screenshot
4 votes -
Multilingual support for Electronic Collection Authentication and Public Notes
In the electronic collection, service, and portfolio editors, libraries can define public notes and authentication notes displayed to users in Primo VE/NDE. Currently, these fields only support a single text value and cannot be translated.
For libraries serving multilingual communities, this limits the ability to provide clear and consistent guidance to all patrons. We therefore request support for multilingual versions of these notes, allowing Alma to display the appropriate language based on the patron's Primo interface language.
This enhancement would improve the user experience and ensure that important access information and resource instructions are available in the user's preferred language.
4 votes -
Show when a MMS record is Suppressed on the Electronic Collection search results
When using the Electronic Collection search, the results list does not show whether the MMS record is suppressed. This Idea is to suggest that the suppressed icon is displayed on the Electronic Collection search results when the MMS record is suppressed from discovery.
This is important if the Electronic Collection has CDI results - if the MMS record is suppressed from discovery, so too are all of the CDI results. So, when trouble-shooting why CDI records are not displaying as expected, it would be helpful to see the suppressed icon on the Electronic Collection search results page rather than having…
3 votes -
Customizable fields for Electronic Collections
We would like to be able to introduce custom, local fields into our Electronic Collections to help us manage workflows, reporting, and inventory management. Currently, we store a lot of information in our Internal Descriptions to help with this work. It would be great to have dedicated, customizable fields that can be defined for local uses. Ideally, the management of these fields would look like the license term management, with options for free text, controlled vocabularies, and yes/no fields. If that is too complicated, then just making a handful of "local fields" available would also be helpful ("local field #1",…
3 votes -
Network Zone indicator for centrally paid collections
In our instance of the Network Zone, we have collections that the central office negotiates a price for the libraries but the central office does not pay for those collections. We also have collections that are paid for by the central office. Currently I add internal notes indicating if the collection is centrally paid or not. Can an indicator be added to the CZ collections, in which during activation, you could check a box in the Activation Wizard: Electronic Collection and Services Setup that indicates the collection is centrally paid for.
3 votes -
Automatic Upload of Electronic Holdings Integration Profile ELS ClinicalKey
I would like to suggest an API integration profile for Elsevier to include ClinicalKey collections. This feature is currently available for ScienceDirect and ScienceDirect eBooks, but not for ClinicalKey.
We currently spend a significant amount of time in deleting and adding portfolios to these collections each month.
3 votes -
Flag individual articles in Alma as being unavailable.
ExLibris cannot verify accuracy between supplied metadata and a referenced database. As a result, there are times when an article is listed in Primo as available online; However, when the patron tries to retrieve the article, the database returns a not found error. This has been frustrating for our patrons.
Currently there is no way to flag an individual article as being unavailable. As a result, this becomes a recurring error for our patrons; with no option to correct.
Suggest providing a way to:
1. flag individual articles as available / not available by database
2. date and notes on…3 votes -
Option to NOT receive ticket updates 'Report to ExLibris'
Add a 'Report to ExLibris' option to NOT receive ticket updates.
Use case: I report that an ebook title in a huge Open Access collection is, in fact, not open access. I view this as a standard cleanup task. We've likely already suppressed the record from our catalog and don't need to track the ticket or receive updates. It generates many unnecessary emails.3 votes
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