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Update URL in porfolio when attached bib record's 856 is updated
When the URL in a bib record attached to a portfolio is updated (individually edited, or batch load/overlay of records), there should be a setting to the action so that the URL in an attached portfolio would also be updated and we don't have to remember to manually do this. We have had 2 recent instances, one where we used APIs to update bib records using our old PURL manager to use our new one, only to find that the portfolio URLs also needed to be changed separately, and one where we have a batch of vendor records with changed…
351 votesDear community,
Thank you for bringing this idea to our attention.
We analyzed it carefully, and identified that such enhancement might be risky. Therefore we decided that it will not be implemented for now.
Thanks for your understanding.
Tamar Fuches
Alma product team
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Improve publishing to PubMed to give a single coverage statement for all portfolios active for the same title
The Publish to PubMed publishing profile outputs an xml file giving details of ejournal coverage per title. Where we have multiple active portfolios for a title, the output contains a set of "or" queries with the coverage for each portfolio, and these often overlap or duplicate each other. NLM will no longer accept files with these duplications and overlapping coverage statements and instead require a single coverage statement for each ISSN in the file.
Please add to the publishing profile the option to merge the various coverage statements to give a single start and end date per title that reflects…
69 votesNLM PubMed Library LinkOut tools supports placing the library link resolver icon on every PubMed citation therefore PubMed no longer supports uploading the library holdings to PubMed.
For more information about how to setup PubMed Outside Tool to place a link on every PubMed record please see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3803/#related.Outside_Tool.
Due to the above Publishing to PubMed is deprecated and will not include any improvements.
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Enable Individual Portfolios for Publish to PubMed Profile
There is not a way to set up individual profiles for the Publish to PubMed Profile for individual colleges that share one Alma instance. This functionality is important and should be enabeled. Without it, patrons using PubMed will not be aware which results are available in full-text through their college's databases. The expected outcome of this improvement is that it would provide a way in the Publish to PubMed profile manager to set up individual profiles per college, like there is in the Publish to Google Scholar Profile.
26 votesNLM PubMed Library LinkOut supports placing the library link resolver icon on every PubMed citation therefore there is no need to
upload the library holdings to PubMed
Publishing to PubMed is no longer needed
for more information about how to setup PubMed Outside Tool to place a link on every PubMed record see
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The material type can be updated in bath mode
At present, for journals if the portfolio being activated is from the Community Zone, the material type value is ignored in the input file .For multiple portfolios , It is unrealistic to modify manually one by one.
We hope the material type can be updated in bath mode.18 votesHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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Suppress bibliographic records of electronic collections in NZ automatically.
Currently bibliographies of electronic collections, which we select "Mark Bib as suppressed" on the page of "Activation Wizard: Electronic Collection and Services Setup" and activated from CZ, are suppressed in IZ. But these records are in NZ and can be searched with consortium scope of Primo VE. It would be great if it is suppressed not only in IZ but also in NZ automatically. The necessary workflow looks as follows:
If held by one institution in a consortium and suppressed, suppressed from NZ.
If held by some institutions, and only one of them suppresses, not suppressed from NZ.
If held…18 votesHello All,
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Allow data from the POL notes to inform/be inherited by the portfolio notes.
Our Acquisitions process currently allows for receiving e-book purchase option information (platform and use model) from a vendor via POL notes. We would like this information to be inherited by the e-inventory in the notes field of the portfolio. There is currently no way to get that information out of the POL, and it is needed in the porfolio to streamline workflows.
17 votesHello 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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Reflect Community Zone changes in affected portfolios' history tabs
Alma portfolios in the IZ show a modification date in their history when a change is made based on CZ data. However, the changes themselves are not documented in the portfolio's history tab -- just the fact that a change occurred on that date.
Some changes are displayed to users in the CZ updates task list, so it's clear that Ex Libris has a way to communicate this at the Institution level. But as Update Task List entries can be dismissed en masse, it's important to reflect CZ changes like linking and coverage dates in a more persistent manner, through…
15 votesHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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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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Alma Product Team
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Ability to customize the order of display for portfolio links in a record
When there are multiple portfolios for one title, such as a journal or newspaper, Alma allows them to be sorted by Rank, Title Asc, or Title Desc. But there are occasions when it would be optimal to custom sort the display. For example, for the title Barron's, we have three ProQuest Central portfolios displaying to the public, each with a different date range. It would be nice to be able to have them display in chronological order. Currently they display in this order: 1942-1987, 1921-1942, 1988-present. In this instance, the sort options do not help since they are all ProQuest…
14 votesHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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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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Alma Product Team
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Make View it the default tab when viewing electronic items
Currently when viewing items you can set the electronic & physical tabs to expand by default. However the 'View It' tab/option is hidden in the menu. We don't need to see the portfolios we hold at a glance, we need to be able to view and access the item and it's holdings.
Please add 'View It' to the list of tabs and to the expand options, so we can see what we hold at a glance and have access to it without needing to search for the menu button.
If you could add the holding information for when we only…
13 votesHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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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
12 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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Alma Product Team
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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,
This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.
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Alma Product Team
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Alma - add a coverage field at electronic collection service level
Right now the coverage of a portfolio is managed at portfolio level only. It would be very useful to have a chance to set up values for coverage also at service level, so that they are inherited by all the portfolios using that collection service.
That would be useful when a) the portfolios share the same starting date in the license or b) when - as it happens now to us - for for a huge amount of portfolios we are still waiting from the publisher more detailed coverage information, but we know know for that we have at least…
12 votesHello All,
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9 votes
Hello All,
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Add Institution specific holdings feeds to Alma KB from more providers
Currently, the Alma knowledge base offers automated institution-specific holdings feeds from Elsevier and Ovid. These greatly reduce the amount of work required by libraries to maintain holdings.
It would be great if you could add feeds for JSTOR ebooks and EBSCO ebooks. These are currently being offered by other knowledge base providers.
9 votesHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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Add portfolio or collection inventory directly within license
We would like the ability to associate a collection or portfolio with a license record directly in the Inventory tab, rather than having to go into the collection editor or portfolio editor of the product/title and associate the license from there. When working with the license record it'd be beneficial to be able to associate a related portfolio or collection from that tab.
9 votesHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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Changing or moving the "Add all Portfolios from Community" button in Electronic Collections
When adding a new portfolio to an existing electronic collection there are several options. Two of these options are "Add Portfolios from Community" and "Add All Portfolios from Community". These options sit beside each other and are the same colour and design. The only difference between them is the word "all". 5 times in the last twelve months we have had the experience where separate operators have selected the "Add All Portfolios from Community" in error when they really only wanted to import a single record. The result has been that Alma commenced to import tens of thousands of records…
8 votesHello All,
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