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  1. Enhancing searchability through original script support for non-latin data

    Hi,
    currently, the CZ-data in other than latin scripts is often transliterated using the ALA transliteration rules. However, these rules are not used in all regions of the world. This issue concerns mainly the title and authors. Ultimately, the different transliterations make the search for this data very difficult.

    We suggest that the CZ-data in other than latin scripts should contain the original script as well as the transliteration. If ExLibris could introduce the original script in a linked field 880 as the standard for non-Latin scripts in the CZ, this would be a big advantage for us in the…

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  2. Add IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library and ChoralWiki/Choral Public Domain Library to CDI

    Please add the contents of the free music score libraries, IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library (https://imslp.org/), and ChoralWiki/Choral Public Domain Library (https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) to the CDI. Thanks!

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  3. Add Inlibra as Provider

    Hello, we received a notice that all titles in the Nomos eLibrary, the Beck eLibrary, and the VDI Verlag-eLibrary are moving to a new platform: Inlibra (https://www.inlibra.com/de/). Can you please add this provider and its collections to the CZ?

    Thanks,

    Kevin

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  4. Add LexNow

    LexNow confirmed on the agreement to develop a gateway from LexNow.io to the Alma Library Management System (Ex Libris). (CZ & CDI)

    As for timing, LexNow made commitments to our clients regarding developments, and they intend to honour them. LexNow is looking at the first half of 2026.

    In the meantime, LexNow will of course continue to provide you with regular Ms Excel exports of our titles (books and journals) to feed into your digital catalogues.

    The goal for LexNow.io is to remain a solution for all legal professionals. This requires the daily efforts of all 18 publishing partners associated…

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  5. Hope to enhance these brief records of package（WORLD_SCIENTIFIC_JOURNALS;Collection ID: 61590044640003966）

    Some journals in this resource package（WORLDSCIENTIFICJOURNALS;Collection ID: 61590044640003966）, approximately 47 titles, have neither Library of Congress Classification numbers nor Dewey Classification numbers. It is recommended to enhance these brief records by replacing them with more comprehensive bibliographic information.

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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Can you please confirm what is the CZ Collection ID for the requested collection?

    There is one collection that may be what you mean (Collection ID: 61110974746497576), but its' average Bibliographic ranking is 73 which is considered fairly good.

    In any case, we do not receive Dewey Classification for this collection and many others, but we might be able to add LCSH.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager


  6. Please add artresearch.net

    artresearch.net is a free, open-access art historical research database that has both image and text searching for the combined photograph archives of renowned international libraries.

    Please consider adding the database to the Alma CZ.

    Thank you!

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  7. Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press

    Hello,

    We would appreciate if you could add The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press to Alma. The collection is currently a University of Arizona collection with much need information regarding Mexican and Mexican American people.

    The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s. The collection covers important periods in Mexican-American history, from the Mexican Revolution to the Bracero Program…

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  8. Add new GALE collections

    1. Global Development and Humanitarian Aid : The International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent, 1919-1994 collection https://link.gale.com/apps/GDHA?u
    2. Times Digital Archive 2020-2024 collection https://link.gale.com/apps/TTDA?u
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The first collection is available for activation:

    Gale Primary Sources Global Development and Humanitarian Aid: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 1919–1997, Collection ID: 61942092910000041

    We will reach out to Gale and ask for the metadata for the metadata forTimes Digital Archive 2020-2024.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  9. Enrichment of Community Zone bibliographic records for Pressreader

    Enrich and update Pressreader with bibliographic records in CZ.

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  10. Ovid Nursing Community College Essential Journal Collection 2019 (from 2015)

    Ovid Nursing Community College Essential Journal Collection 2019 (from 2015) doesn't have it's own collection in the CZ. More information is here: https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/solutions/ovid/ovid-nursing-community-college-essential-journal-collection-14718.

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  11. New Collection: Nimonik

    Please create a new collection for Nimonik. Vendor website: https://nimonik.com/

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  12. Storybox

    Could this resource be added to Alma https://storyboxlibrary.com.au/

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  13. New source for CDI: The Conversation

    The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/) would be a valuable source to add to the CDI and make available in Primo as it provides Academic 'magazine-style' articles, often in multiple languages. There are region/country specific editions of "The Conversation" so this would need to be considered when adding them.

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  14. Add ISLaS+ database to Alma

    ISLaS+ is a consortial ILS shared by most of Greek universities. In order to benefit from their metadata, it would be a great asset to integrate its database to the external ressources harvested by Alma. This would be especially useful for libraries with Moder Greek collections.

    Search interface: https://ilsas-opac.seab.gr/
    Project page: https://ilsas.alis.uniwa.gr/

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  15. Add Dancio database to Alma

    Please add the Dancio dance collection to Alma. https://www.dancio.com/

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  16. tgni@dtu.dk

    Oersi
    https://oersi.org/
    OERSI, the Open Educational Resources Search Index, is a search engine for open educational resources in higher education, provided jointly by the University Library Center of North Rhine-Westphalia (hbz) and the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library since 2020.

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  17. Kanopy All Titles Collections

    Please add regional all titles collections for Kanopy which contain ALL titles accessible on the Kanopy platform regardless of purchase model.

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  18. Ebookplus/Onleihe

    Hello,
    we would like to integrate the ebookplus/onleihe.

    https://ebookplus.onleihe.com/
    Contact Person: Sandra Berger / sandra.berger@ag.ch

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  19. Add Zhejiang University Journal Resource Repository to the Alma Community Zone/SFXKB and 360KB

    AcadeMax is a journal publishing platform for the discovery of academic content published by Zhejiang University Press (ZJUP) and its publishing partners, currently more than 80 journals are now available. I wish Ex Libris would add AcadMax Resource Repository(https://www.academax.com) to the Alma Community Zone/SFXKB and 360KB.

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  20. Add University of Toronto Press eBook collection

    Hello, can you please work with the University of Toronto Press to add an eBook collection for the Press? There is an existing collection for "University of Toronto Press" (Collection ID: 611000000000001593), but it only contains journals. There are over 7,000 ebooks available on the platform, but I could not locate any titles in the CZ that direct to the platform.

    Thanks,

    Kevin

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