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  1. Add Firenze University press open access book collection

    Firenze University Press publishes the outcomes of academic research carried out by the University of Florence and by the national scientific community, with the aim at spreading them both at national and international levels.
    A certain number of these works are included in the open access catalogue.
    All publications are certified by the Editorial Board that coordinates the peer review process.

    It's possible harvesting data via OAI-PMH.

    Info: https://www.fupress.com/openaccess

    contact: info@fupress.com

    708 votes
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    90 comments  ·  New Collection  ·  Admin →

  2. Norwegian OA collection within humanities and social sciences

    Unit – The Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research are administering an Open Access collection with journals within the humanities and social sciences. We would like this collection to be included in
    Alma's Community Zone.

    Name of the collection: 'Norske OA humsam-tidsskrift'

    272 votes
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  3. Add a metadata correction layer for PCI

    Many times when we found wrong metadata in PCI and reported to Ex Libris for correction, it took them a long time to contact the data vendors to make the corrections. Sometimes they never can get response or correction from the vendors, and the wrong metadata stayed in PCI without any changes. The wrong metadata is really misleading and cannot generate the correct OpenURLs for users to reach the full text articles. I would suggest Ex Libris to build an internal metadata correction layer for the PCI data to improve its quality. With this layer, even the vendors don't correct…

    247 votes
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    6 comments  ·  New Community Zone Enrichment of bibliographic records  ·  Admin →

  4. MARCIVE GPO Database

    We would love to see MARCIVE's GPO database added to the PCI.

    For more details, see:
    http://home.marcive.com/gpo

    220 votes
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  5. La Mia Biblioteca

    Dear all,

    could you please create, in SFX, a new target MIABIBLIOTECAWOLTERSKLUWEREBOOKS , target service getFullTxt, for the italian ebook platform named La Mia Biblioteca < https://www.lamiabiblioteca.com/home> and add all the objects here attached?

    La Mia biblioteca is a one of the more comprehensive and extensive italian ebook collection about law and the related subject. The collection includes more than 4000 ebook title.

    Furthermore, could you please add the category Law and subcategory General and Others to each object?

    Regards,
    Elisa Minardi

    160 votes
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    5 comments  ·  New Collection  ·  Admin →
    under review  ·  AdminRael Elstein (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello all,

    Over the past months we have attempted to reach out to this provider unsuccessfully.
    If anyone from the community has a contact person at La Mia Biblioteca please send us this information so that perhaps we can establish communication.
    If we cannot establish contact we will need to decline this request.

    Thank you,
    Rael

  6. Brepolis Databases

    Brepols Publishers is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities. The focus of its publications lies in "source-works" from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. By this is meant critical editions of original texts and documents in their original language, reference works such as encyclopaedias, handbooks and bibliographies, as well as monograph studies and cutting-edge research.

    The following Brepolis databases (online encyclopedias, handbooks and bibliographies) would significantly enrich the indexes if there were added to Primo Central and Summon:
    - L'Année Philologique
    - Bibliography of British and Irish History
    - International Medieval Bibliography
    - Bibliographie…

    148 votes
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    1 comment  ·  New Collection  ·  Admin →
    under review  ·  Dana Sharvit responded

    After reviewing this idea, we decided to update our plans to include this suggested change.
    We will be contacting the provider.
    Thank you for your contribution

  7. Need up-to-date 'Westlaw Thomson Reuters' CZ Selective Package

    There is no up-to-date ‘Westlaw Thomson Reuters’ Selective Package in the Community Zone. This Westlaw database has had much flux over recent years, including name changes.
    Due to internal changes of where particular content is kept in the database, even in the most recent CZ Selective Packages many parser parameter links need to be updated.

    142 votes
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  8. JDreamⅢ for Discovery

    JDreamⅢ is a STM bibliographic database widely used in Japanese institutions.

    https://jdream3.com/
    Adding this to Summon Index is highly desired.

    104 votes
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  9. Add Ebooks Minnesota collection to Alma CZ and Primo Central

    Please add the Ebooks Minnesota collection to both the Alma CZ and the Primo Central Index. This collection is freely accessible to all people located in the state of Minnesota and is therefore used by every Minnesota library (public, K12, higher ed, etc.). The MARC records are available from Minitex: https://mndigital.org/projects/ebooks-minnesota/faq#marc

    100 votes
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  10. 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: 3506

    97 votes
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  11. F-Mesh in MARC21

    F-Mesh is a bilingual French/English version of the Medical Subject Headings (Mesh).
    We are a French speaking Library network using MARC21. We were very happy to hear that Alma now includes F-Mesh as a subject headings vocabulary. However, as it is available only in UNIMARC, we cannot use it. If you are in the same situation, then don’t hesitate to vote for this Idea!

    96 votes
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    1 comment  ·  New Community Zone Authority files  ·  Admin →

  12. Include Content-Select Data in PCI / CDI

    Please add Collection for discovery:
    Content-Select (preselect media) to enhance german language content (Publishers: Beltz, Kohlhammer, Lambertus, MohrSiebeck)

    92 votes
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  13. Editions ENI

    Editions ENI is a publisher of ebooks in the IT field, and they already accepted to share their metadata with ExLibris.

    This collection is part of the French consortium Couperin.

    92 votes
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  14. Add the URLs to the US Government Documents--they are available every month.

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    2 comments  ·  New Community Zone Enrichment of bibliographic records  ·  Admin →

  15. Open Textbook Catalog: Please use direct feed of MARC records from https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/discovery

    In the CZ there is an existing collection (613790000000001601) for the Open Textbook Catalog.

    Compared to the MARC records available at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/discovery the CZ collection has fewer titles (651 vs 766 as of 07/13/2020).

    Also the CZ bibliographic records are extremely brief and usually have nothing more than a title in the 245 field. The bib records from open.umn.edu are fuller with author, title, publisher, content and summary notes and subject headings.

    This request is to ask Exlibris to use the publicly available MARC bib records from the open.umn.edu website to enhance the existing CZ collection.

    Thank you.

    -Marcus

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  16. 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)614910000000000075

    We’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…

    78 votes
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  17. 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.com

    76 votes
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  18. Humanities Digital Library

    Database URL: http://humanities-digital-library.org/index.php/hdl
    Description: The Humanities Digital Library is a joint initiative between SAS, the University of London, and two of the School’s institutes — the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). The collection provides access to Open Access materials categorized into: Proceedings, History, Law, and Classics, and supports the Humanities community by providing free reading and sharing of research findings; increased usage, dissemination and impact; improved access to publicly funded research for libraries, academics and the general public; enhanced visibility of research for funding bodies, universities and research institutions; improved preservation of…

    74 votes
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  19. Missing target "TECTUM_ELIBRARY"

    Dear support

    Referring to the Salesforce Case 593244 there is a need for a new target for Ebooks in the Tectum E-library.

    Therefor I kindly ask you to create a target TECTUM_ELIBRARY

    The URL to the collection is the following: http://www.tectum-elibrary.de/

    Thank you and kind regards

    Marianne Cathomen
    Zentralbibliothek Zürich

    72 votes
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  20. PCI / CDI: Please make sure that Open Access archives are really OA

    In Primo Central Index / Central Discovery Index, some archives are incorrectly referred to as Open Access.

    Please check the availability of documents in Open Access archives with "Link in record". If these archives sometimes also contain blocked documents or only title pages, tables of contents or abstracts, please split these archives into several collections, e.g. Open Access and Restricted Access.

    Records which link only to title pages, tables of contents or abstracts should not appear in Open Access collections with "Link in record".

    Example:
    Open Access LMU (https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de)
    Auf "Open Access LMU" finden Sie 64725 verzeichnete Publikationen…

    72 votes
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