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Better distinguish between local portfolios and CZ portfolios in the portfolios list
When you are working in the portfolios list from the electronic service editor in an activated electronic collection and choose to add portfolios from the Community Zone, the list displays the local house icon for active portfolios and no icon for the inactive ones. However, from the electronic service editor portfolios list, active portfolios display with the CZ (double person) icon. Any local portfolios that you have added beyond the CZ collection display with the local house icon. I understand how it makes sense in different contexts, but it may be useful to have an icon that distinguishes between the…
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"Indicators to skip" should apply to single portfolio records
When importing electronic portfolios through repository import there is an option to specify a MARC-field containing the URL to the resource. When configured, Alma extracts the URL from the first occurrence of that field, which might or might not be the desired full text URL.
Next to this option is another option, "Indicators to skip", that looks like it could be used to specify further which occurrences of the field to ignore and which to use for the URL extraction, but this option is only taken in consideration for "multiple portfolios" imports.
As the probably most likely source for an…
2 votesHello All,
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Filter Community Zone Updates Task List by library associated with the Electronic Collection
We would like the Community Zone Updates Task List to include another column for the library associated with the Electronic Collection so that this field could be filtered on (and staff in individual libraries can look at only their tasks instead of the entire institution's).
6 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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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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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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interface names - browse/export available options
Interfaces are selected by searching from pre-defined list - searching by entering all or part of the interface name.
I asked Ex Libris if there was a list anywhere of the available interfaces we can choose from and was advised 'A list is not available. Currently it's only possible enter part or all of an existing interface name and select the matching interface from the drop-down list adding Interface to a vendor. '
It is difficult to know what interfaces are available to select. It would be helpful if you could also 1) browse the full list of available interfaces…
12 votesHello All,
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Implement auto holdings for Gale Cengage
Implement auto holdings (autoholding, auto load, autoload) for Gale Cengage, as is already available for ProQuest, Elsevier, Ovid, and Springer.
In particular Gale Virtual Reference Library.
6 votesHello All,
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Improve filtering of packages in Community Zone
When checking for a portfolio to import from the Community Zone, there can be large numbers of collections to sift through from the large suppliers. These appear in what I guess is reverse chronological order i.e. newest created first. It takes much scrolling and scrutiny if you don't want the collections that are offered first.
There should be a way either to search for the collection you want, or to filter by collection via a drop down. This would save time and also help prevent selecting the wrong collection and possibly having broken links in the Alma linkresolver1 voteHello All,
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Allow free text in "Change Portfolio" job, "Set interface name" field
i work almost exclusively with local, standalone portfolios for electronic resources. I need to be able to globally update the "Interface name" field with free text. The"Change Portfolio" job currently only allows the change to be to one of the vendor code names established in the Acquisitions area. Our acquisitions staff have not set up in Alma such codes for many resources, for example, e-collections for which we purchased perpetual access years before we migrated to Alma.
One reason I need an interface name on the portfolios, is that when I do a repository electronic titles search, there is nothing…
3 votesHello All,
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Electronic Collection - Automatically publish as Deleted when a linked Descriptive Record is unlinked
In order to triggering publishing of an Electronic Collection from Alma to Primo, the Electronic Collection must have an Electronic Collection URL and an unsuppressed bibliographic record added as the Linked Descriptive Record.
However, the reverse is not true.
If you unlink a bibliographic record from the Electronic Collection, the outcome does not function as expected to then publish the inventory as Deleted.
The workaround for this undesirable behaviour is to first go to MD Editor, suppress the record, and then remove it as the Linked Descriptive Record from the Electronic Collection.
Ex Libris have described this behaviour as expected…1 voteHello All,
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Set Access Type flag for portfolios in Import Profile
In a portfolio, we can now set Access Type to Current, Perpetual, or both. It would be very useful to be able to set this flag when importing in batch, with a setting in the Import Profile.
15 votesHello All,
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Have more file format choices for loading profiles in the ES-Editor
Rather than only being able to download profiles in Excel format in the Electronic Services Editor, it would be nice to be able to use MARC and text formats as well. There could be a radio button selection for file format. This would be better than using a profile import, since the Electronic Services Editor contains the link resolver and the profile import does not. Thank you.
6 votesHello All,
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Add Shibboleth to IngentaConnect parsers
Shibboleth is available to sign in to IngentaConnect. Can Shibboleth be added to the IngentaConnect Parser in Alma so that Alma can resolve IngentaConnect URLs with a Shibboleth sign in please?
1 voteHello All,
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Automated holdings data updates for Paratext Reference Universe platform
Reference Universe by Paratext utilizes holdings data files consisting of ISBNs to present users with search results specific to their library's holdings.
According to Paratext, they have recently completed a pilot project where they access a library’s SFX resolver directly and retrieve information on new acquisitions without library personnel being involved at all, once the original protocols are established. This will be great for libraries using both Reference Universe and SFX.
They are interested in establishing this automated holdings data maintenance functionality with other OpenURL resolvers, such as Alma Link Resolver.
Please work with Paratext to establish and optimize automated…
12 votesHello All,
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Add bib records for electronic collections to the "electronic titles" search
Currently, bib records for electronic collections can only be found in an "all titles" search. We would like electronic collections to be considered inventory so that their bib records will be findable in an "electronic titles" search along with bib records for portfolios.
7 votesHello All,
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allow the use of sets in Overlap and Collection Analysis
The Overlap and Collection Analysis wizard allows two report types: Set Comparison and Selected Titles. Set Comparison only allows you to choose electronic collections, so the name is a misnomer. Selected Titles only allows you to upload a file. Neither type allows you to use the itemized/logical set functionality that already exists in Alma.
13 votesHello All,
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Set up Trials for Database-only resources in the CZ
It would be nice to be able to set up Database-only resources as a Trial. Currently only those resources with portfolios can be set up as a Trial.
14 votesHello All,
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How can we know which ISBN identifier be used to perform the "linking local portfolios to CZ" processing
We have 2 local portfolios https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118558133 (v.1) & https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118558126 (v.2) which those 2 portfolios are linked to MMSID 9940441503411. See attached spreadsheet.
As those 2 local portfolios with the 3 same set of ISBNs be involved (9781848211124, 9781848211117, 9781848211100), we have tried to link them to CZ by ISBN identifier. Only 1 local portfolios be linked to CZ successfully (see linking to community by ISBN identifiers_2.png). We have performed the linking process again and found that it is linked to the same CZ portfolio (bkey=10.1002/9781118558126). We are wondering which ISBN identifier be used for the linking processing if we have…6 votesHello All,
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Linking local portfolios without ISBN/ISSN from IZ to CZ
Please advise how to efficiently link the IZ collection to CZ collection for those local portfolios without ISBN/ISSN
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