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  1. Additional Exportable Fields

    When viewing electronic collection results, after a search, we would like the ability to export several additional fields: Alternative Title, General note (electronic collection), and General note (Service). This would allow our consortium to do some real-time analysis of how multiple collections are setup which would save significant time over having to click into each electronic collection individually.

    3 votes
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  2. Add purchase model to more auto-holdings.

    It is great to have purchase model added automatically for Ebook Central og JSTOR Books holdings, and it would be even better if we could get purchase model also when using auto-holdings for publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis and de Gruyter. We have evidence based acquisition agreements with all of these publishers and it would be very helpful if we could see which titles were in the EBA corpus and which we have purchased, either through the EBA or by earlier collection purchases.

    74 votes
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  3. Add Open Access eBooks from the publisher intercom Verlag, Zürich into the Alma Community Zone

    The young publishing house intercom Verlag at Zürich (Switzerland) is publishing Open Access ebooks in the Humanities.
    It would be great to add an eCollection of these ebooks to the Community Zone in Alma to make these fine books available.
    https://intercomverlag.ch/about/
    https://www.intercom-mono.com/

    3 votes
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  4. When creating a new local portfolio generates a new bib record, the portfolio's material type should determine the bib's material type.

    ExL documentation states, "When creating a new bibliographic record, the portfolio material is not taken into account. Thus, when you add a local portfolio and set a specific electronic material type, a bibliographic record is also created, but with 'Book' as the material, regardless of the portfolio's material. When adding ISSN, the material remains to be 'Book'. "

    This is imprecise and creates issues for discovery: when I create a new portfolio for a Kanopy video and select Electronic Material Type=Streaming Video, the bib record is encoded for a book. So in Primo, the video's Resource Type shows as book,…

    38 votes
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  5. Allow appending function to update portfolio Internal description field

    Currently, there is no append option in the Information Update - Change Electronic portfolio information job. Hence, contents of portfolio Internal Description would be overwritten and extra work needed to lookup existing notes in the Internal Description field. If there is the append option, it will be easier to add new notes to the Internal Description without affecting already existed contents.

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  6. replace "Do not show as Full Text available in CDI even if active in Alma" with a pair of show local / show CDI checkboxes

    To avoid duplicates when we have both local portfolios and CDI records, we can rely on the "Do not show as Full Text available in CDI even if active in Alma".
    Enabling this feature will show in Primo local IZ portfolios, and is very good when local records are rich and CZ records are limited/poor.
    Sometimes however CDI records are richer and provide indexing at chapter level. In such a case we would like to hide IZ local portfolios and show CDI records instead.
    It would be therefore useful and clearer to replace the "Do not show as Full Text…

    80 votes
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  7. Add CSIRO Publishing BioSelect Collection to Alma

    The newest eBook collaboration between CSIRO Publishing and BioOne is not yet available in Alma.
    Please consider adding it your collection.
    https://bioone.org/csiro-ebooks

    3 votes
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  8. Add public note for link in record collections

    Give customers the ability to add a public note to link in record collections that displays to the user whenever links from the collection are displayed in Primo.

    Our use case for this is enhancement would be Unpaywall for CDI (Collection ID 61738162240004646). This is database collection with no portfolios that displays a link in record for open access content available from Unpaywall. The problem is the open access version of a publication can sometimes differ from the final published version. However, there is no way to communicate this to the user. Ideally, it would be great if Ex Libris…

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  9. 3 votes
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  10. Add Optica Open

    Please consider adding an e-collection for Optica Open
    https://opticaopen.org/Home/About

    Thank you

    3 votes
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  11. Implement Automatic Upload of Electronic Holdings for Perlego eBooks

    Implement auto holdings (autoholding, automatic upload of e-holdings) for Perlego eBooks.

    This will allow for automatic update of the collection based on most recent institutional holdings file received from Perlego.

    As is already available for ProQuest, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and other publishers.

    22 votes
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  12. Display Open Access Indicator based on Setting at the Portfolio Level

    Currently, the Open Access (OA) indicator displays in Community Zone records when the record contains a 506 field with the following formatting:

    506 0_ $f Unrestricted online access $2 star

    Records in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) collection are automatically enriched with this data, but not records in any other collection. The rationale is that the OA indicator may appear on records that are not available as OA in all collections, leading to a confusing display. However, this can lead to cases where institutions do have OA access, but cannot display the OA indicator.

    To avoid both of…

    52 votes
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  13. Add Electronic Service Information Update Job

    Electronic Portfolios and Electronic Collections each have an Information Update job in Alma. Electronic services need the same functionality because they are also affected in bulk by changes.

    Job Name: Change Electronic service information
    Job Description: Update Electronic service information for a set of Electronic services
    Job Content Type: Electronic Service
    Job Type: Information Update

    Use Case: ProQuest began requiring a value for the CLIENTID parameter in the Linking Parser Parameters section of all ProQuest electronic services. With over 50 ProQuest electronic collections activated, that meant that over 50 electronic services had to be manually edited one at a time…

    45 votes
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  14. mergent market atlas

    Mergent has a new product that is replacing Mergent Online, which will be sunsetting in 2025. The replacement product is Market Atlas.
    https://marketatlas.mergent.com. Are there plans to add this new collection?

    3 votes
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  15. Implement Upload Electronic Holdings (Autoholdings) integration for Emerald

    Implement Upload Electronic Holdings (Autoholdings) integration for Emerald, as is already available for ProQuest, Elsevier, Ovid, Springer, Project MUSE, JSTOR.

    4 votes
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  16. Disable the license terms from cascading down from POL to electronic collections and portfolios

    The current situation is that after attaching a license to a PO Line, this license will override the license(s) originally attached to the electronic collections and the portfolios. We have 5000+ Chinese ebooks that come with a wide range of number of concurrent users. While we can update them using the 'Run a Job' function, but once the POL that is connected with the electronic collection is updated, it will override the license terms we have for the individual ebooks. So we would like to see if there is an option to delink the POLs and electronic collections from the…

    3 votes
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  17. 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
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  18. Create CZ collection for IEEE Xplore MIT Press eBooks 2024

    Create CZ collection for IEEE Xplore MIT Press eBooks 2024

    6 votes
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  19. Add collections for East View's China Monographic Serials

    Series A, B, C & E of East View's China Monographic Serials are missing from the knowledge base. Please add them, thank you!

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  20. Add Available From/To dates (in General Tab) to Extended Export/Portfolio loader

    The Available From/To fields in the portfolios general tab are currently not included in the portfolio extended export. Nor is it possible to populate the fields using the portfolio loader spreadsheet.
    This makes it impossible to identify if these fields are populated in a portfolio without using Analytics. These fields should be included in Extended Export to make it easier to find, and should be available for the Portfolio Loader to make it easier to populate.

    14 votes
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