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  1. Alma collections: Allow to add from network zone

    Our Alma consortium shares a common network zone. On the local institution level, we are building Alma collections (not digital/electronic collections). We can add titles from the institution zone, but we can't add titles from the network zone.

    This is documented:
    Alma Online Help (English) > Resource Management > Inventory > Managing Collections

    "You can only add titles from your Institution Zone to collections. NZ-managed inventory cannot be added to collections."

    This is very bad since many of our e-book packages are managed on the NZ level. So we can't add e-books to our collection and present them together with…

    161 votes
    Planned  ·  7 comments  ·  Collaborative Networks  ·  Admin →

  2. Set up Online Service Order configuration in the NZ and be able to share with the IZ.

    We would like to be able to set up Online Service Order in the NZ and share that configuration with the IZ. The goal is push the shared OA e-collections to the bottom of the list so they do not display first in the list.

    134 votes
    Planned  ·  7 comments  ·  Collaborative Networks  ·  Admin →

  3. Display Logic: shared NZ choices in IZ

    Currently, the Display Logic settings are limited to IZ resources only; they do not allow choices for resources that are shared from the NZ among several institutions.

    For example, my library offers unmediated CCC document delivery for certain Wiley titles we don't subscribe to. So when I set the display logic rule, it should be "Hide service Full Text with Electronic collection = CCC Get It Now Wiley if exists service Full Text with Electronic collection = Wiley Online Library." However, because the Wiley Online Library ecollection is shared in the NZ for my consortium, it will not appear as…

    195 votes
    Planned  ·  10 comments  ·  Collaborative Networks  ·  Admin →
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