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For more information please review our FAQ and guidelines. Thank you.
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Add Homosaurus to Alma Authority Vocabularies
We would like to suggest adding Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ+ linked data vocabulary to the authority vocabularies in the resource management configuration. The vocabulary is available at https://homosaurus.org/
Homosaurus has received a lot of traction in the past few years as alternative to LCSH for describing resources about the LGBTQ+ community. We add the terms at present in a 650 _7 $a heading $2 homoit.
Adding Homosaurus to the authority vocabularies would help greatly in on-going authority control, rather than managing locally.
308 votesHello all,
We have analyzed this request and identified that we will require some special developments to support this request. We will continue to investigate our options here and update when we have a conclusion.
Best,
Rael
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Austlit - Australian Literature Resource
Add Austlit to Primo Central Index.
A premier resource for research on Australian literature. A searchable, scholarly source of authoritative biographical, bibliographic, critical, and production information about Australian writers and writing. Includes full text of 200 works of Australian fiction and poetry, selections of children's literature, anthology of criticism, critical articles, review and surveys, and 300 items of early science fiction.https://www.austlit.edu.au/
Info on full text: https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/5961938
Publisher: AustLit
Contact: info-austlit@austlit.edu.au
NERS Request ID: 3506101 votesHello,
Thank you for this contribution!
We will review this request and determine whether this content can be indexed in CDI.Best,
Rael -
100 votes
Hello,
We are currently in discussions with GPO to progress this request.
We will provide further details as soon as available.Best,
Rael -
Springer Nature Open Access Community Zone Electronic Collection
This is a request to add a single free/open access collection for all Springer Nature free/open access journals. Currently there are 4 community zone collections in Alma with many overlaps:
SpringerOpen Free - (CKB)613170000000000044
BioMed Central open Access - (CKB)611000000000000500
Bacon Springer Nature Global Open Access - (CKB)613780000000000900
Springer Nature Oa Journals - (CKB)614910000000000075We’d like the addition of one single consolidated collection because having the above 4 collections is unnecessarily confusing for students and staff as they currently encounter so many electronic collections for the same journal/article even when different community zone electronic collection links in Primo end up…
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Kanopy Streaming PDA
Please add connections for the Kanopy streaming video database for Discovery (Summon) and the Knowledgebase (360 KB).
96 votesHello,
As you know, Kanopy is now owned by OverDrive. We are currently working with OverDrive and discussing the legal and technical possibilities of ingesting their content, including a conversation about Kanopy.
We expect this to be a lengthy process, but can report that it is in progress.
Best,
Rael
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Add Overdrive to 360 KB and Summon
Many academic libraries are using this product. It would be good to have integrated into discovery systems.
86 votesHello all,
While we are still working to reach a legal agreement with OverDrive to enable us to index their content in our CDI, we will be adding the OverDrive Magazine collections to our Knowledgebases.
Best,
Rael
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Add Urbadoc database to Primo Central index
Urbadoc bibliographic database indexes european architectural journals and can enrich PCI with unique references.
It would be very useful to have this database searchable in Primo Central Index.
Urbadoc has an OAI-PMH data provider. More info at: http://www.cnba.it/2017/09/28/novita-urbadoc/
Urbadoc URL: http://www.urbadoc.com76 votesHello,
We will review this request for consideration.
Best,
Rael -
Add VitalSource book collection
We would like to add VitalSource book collection to ALMA CZ and CDI.
This is an important platform of text books collection.Best Regards,
Svetlana.The Neiman Library of Exact Sciences & Engineering | Tel Aviv University | Israel
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Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften - BDSL
As university library user I would like to retrieve contents from the Bibliography of German Literature and Literary Studies (BDSL) while searching in the Summon Index. This would enrich my search results with relevant resources in the field of German studies and also give me the possibility to get this database recommended.
The Bibliography of German Literature and Literary Studies (Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, BDSL) is the most important bibliographical database in the field of Germanic studies and German literature, covering information about publications on German language and literature since 1957 and including ca. 450.000 entries of monographs…
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Add Avery index to architectural periodicals to Primo Central index and the community zone.
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Bibliothèque numérique francophone
The « Bibliothèque numérique francophone » (http://rfnum-bibliotheque.org/rfn/fr/Accueil) is an initiative of the Réseau Francophone Numérique (FRN) launched officially in April 2017. It brings together representative collections (photographs, newspapers, posters, maps etc) of ten members of the Network selected for their heritage interest: Royal Library of Belgium, Library and Archives of Canada, National Library of France, Bibliothèque Haïtienne du Saint-Esprit, National Library of Luxembourg, Bibliothèque et Archives Universitaires d'Antananarivo, Bibliothèque nationale du Royaume du Maroc, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Swiss National Library.
Please add Bibliothèque numérique francophone as a new resource in Summon
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Add Unebook Collection to ALMA CZ
Please add Unebook collection to the Community Zone. Unebook is the collection of books from all Spanish university publishers.
63 votesHello,
Thank you for your contribution.
We will review this request for consideration in 2022, to be added to our Knowledgebase products.If any members of the community have a known contact person, please send their details to me directly.
Best,
Rael -
add the collection utb studi-e-book license model
add the collection utb studi-e-book license model
The MARC records are available from: klapputh@utb.de61 votes -
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organisation publications
FAO - have a huge amount of OA material available on their website. We would like to see the metadata for this available within the community zone. http://www.fao.org/publications/en/
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Jisc Historical Texts - Eighteenth Century Collections Parts 1 and 2
The original idea is now marked as completed - https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-content/suggestions/19523596-jisc-historical-texts
However, There should be over 180,000 books in ECCO. It is ECCO parts 1 and 2. There are only 66,000 portfolios in the CZ at the moment. Can the remaining portfolios be added as a matter of urgency please?
57 votesHello,
We will investigate the title count discrepancy here.
For future reference, please note that this should have been submitted as a Support Case, so that our team can investigate.
Best,
Rael -
BCcampus Open Textbook Collection
British Columbia Open Textbook
currently 327 titlesMARC records
https://bceln.ca/services-initiatives-resource-sharing-bc-open-textbook-marc56 votes -
Need two CZ Selective Packages for 'Westlaw Thomson Reuters' database
It would be useful to have two Selective Packages for the ‘Westlaw Thomson Reuters’ database. One Selective package for ‘International’ content, and another for ‘US’ content.
At our library we provide a link to each of the two ‘sides’ of the database, as Article Title searches on each ‘side’ produce different results, depending on which ‘side’ the article is found. If an article is in the ‘US’ side, it can be found by an Article Title search on the ‘US’ side, but not on the ‘International’ side (and vice versa). (Journal Title searches allow the journal to be found the…
56 votesHello,
Thank you for explaining this use-case. We will approach the provider and discuss our options to address this matter.
Thank you,
Rael
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Improve indexing of HAL in CDI
Hal is one of the most important French open archive. The database offers open access documents directly from the platform and references to documents for which the full text is not available.
In CDI two collections allow to activate the search on this database.
- Hyper Article en Ligne (HAL) (Open Access) (ID CDI VOOES) which covers only open access records.
- Hyper Article Online (HAL) (CDI ID 1XC) which covers all the records in HAL.
Both of the HAL collections are link-in-records databases
The problem is that it shows as unavailable the records to which we could have gained…55 votes -
Could we add Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online. http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/
It would be great to add the AAT vocabularies to the CZ to enhance and enrich records for and about artistic endeavour.
54 votesHello,
Thank you for your contribution.
We will review his request to add AAT authorities to our databases.
Best,
Rael
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Indexing Bibliotek.dk
Please index national database of Denmark, bibliotek.dk.
Database is already in Intota (Bibliotek.dk (FDS)) and in Alma (Alma Collection ID: 6114022520000041
DBC recommend us to get the data via DBC OAI repo https://www.dbc.dk/produkter-services/webservices
DBC OAI Repo
OAI-service gives access to harvest bibliographic data.
Documentation: https://github.com/DBCDK/rr-oai/wiki/DBC-OAI-Repo
The national bibliographic data are freely available and doesn’t need to be authorized. There is a limit of how many records can be harvested at a time, but you can set a script to harvest continuously.53 votesHello,
We will review this request for indexing in CDI.
Thank you for your contribution!
Best,
Rael
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