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We welcome your ideas for new content (metadata) to add to the Knowledge Bases (KBs - Alma CZ, SFX, 360) and Discovery services (CDI - Central Discovery Index whose data supports Primo and Summon).
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Making the peer reviewed icon more accurate
Articles and journals are marked with the peer reviewed icon in Primo based on information extracted from Ulrichsweb (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Ulrich%27s/Product_Documentation/Searching/Ulrichsweb%3A_Peer-Reviewed_Refereed_Journals_and_Academic_Scholarly_Journals).
The Peer Review indicator can only be set at the journal level at the moment. If a journal is identified as peer reviewed, or refereed in Ulrichsweb, all articles from this journal will be shown with the peer reviewed icon in Primo.
However, not all articles in such journals are peer reviewed, meaning the icon sends the wrong information to user, and that this label is not reliable. It can further cause users to lose confidence in the system.…781 votesThanks for the examples - we will review them and discuss our options.
Best,
Tamar
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Add AIATSIS thesauri to the CZ subject authority files
As a cataloguer, I would like to see the AIATSIS thesauri made available in the Community Zone authority files for 6XX subject fields.
BENEFITS
- Make it easier for cataloguers to validate AIATSIS subject headings
- Enable routine review and updates of AIATSIS subject headings through the Authority Control Task List
- Enrich Primo searches for end users, using non-preferred terms (especially synonyms for people and language groups)
- Promote AIATSIS thesauri to Australian libraries
While specific libraries can import and manage AIATSIS subject headings as local authorities, I think this vocabulary should be made available in the CZ authority records, since it is…
182 votesHello,
We are currently reviewing our options with AIATSIS team.
Thank you for posting and supporting this idea.
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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
143 votesHello,
Thanks for bringing this missing resource to our attention.
We are reaching out to the provider.
If any of the supporters can share a contact person's information in the comments, it will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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start enrichment process for Hogrefe eBooks (Hogrefe eLibrary)
ExLibris created an automation for updates that will run on a weekly basis and will check for any changes made to the title list by Hogrefe Verlag. However, the metadata are rudimentary. We are missing author or editor, place of publication and publisher in the metadata. This makes it difficult to find out the ebooks in Primo VE.
Hence: could you please start an enrichment process with Hogrefe for their eLibrary eBooks titles?
116 votesHello,
We are working with the provider to check enrichment options.
Thank you for submitting and supporting this ides.
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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…
114 votesHello,
We are reviewing this option with the provider.
Thanks for posting and supporting this idea.
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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109 votes
Hello,
We are currently in discussions with GPO to progress this request.
We will provide further details as soon as available.Best,
Rael -
NERS 2021 - Pressbooks Directory
The Pressbooks Directory (https://pressbooks.directory/) indexes over 2000 open access books created by educational institutions. As many of these are not indexed separately, it would be great if the contents of the directory could be included in the Alma Community Zone and/or the Central Discovery Index.
NERS 2021 Request ID: 7539
104 votesHello,
After discussing with the provider, adding Pressbook content to CDI looks like the most suitable solution to best represent Pressbook's network.
I reopened this idea and changed it's status to "Under Review".
Thanks for your patience and support.
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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.
100 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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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: 350699 votesHello,
Thank you for this contribution!
We will review this request and determine whether this content can be indexed in CDI.Best,
Rael -
Improve the metadata of Dalloz Bibliothèque in CZ and CDI
- Dalloz Bibliothèque
- Collection ID : 613680000000000037
- CDI Collection ID (DB ID): O7M
- Material type : books (currently : 2576)
The quality of the metadata for Dalloz Bibliothèque in the CZ and CDI is extremely poor (sometimes only one title). Please, consider enriching the metadata with those coming from the SUDOC (more complete and of better quality). Enrichment could perhaps be based on the PPN (SUDOC identifier) that you have already injected into the CZ records?
90 votesDear Alex,
Thanks for the clarification.
Let me take it internally and check what we can do.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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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.com85 votesHello,
We will review this request for consideration.
Best,
Rael -
Vilnius University Press OA Journal Collection
Please add the collection of open-access journals published by Vilnius University Press.
Most of the articles are written in English and Lithuanian. There are currently 46 journals in total. The Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform is used.
Link to the website: https://www.journals.vu.lt.
For more detailed information, please contact by e-mail linas.salelionis@library.lt.81 votesHello,
We will be in contact for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
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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Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press eBooks Collection
Please add the collection of ebooks published by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press.
eBooks (study books, textbooks, monographs, and Ph.D. dissertations) are written in Lithuanian and English. Some of them are open access. There are currently over 1000 ebooks in total. iPublishCentral platform is used.
Link to the website: https://ebooks.vilniustech.lt.
For more detailed information, please contact by e-mail linas.salelionis@library.lt.70 votesHello,
We will reach out for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
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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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…63 votes -
Display license information for Open Access and Open Educational Resources
Please add license information for resources and collections that are known to be open access or open educational resources, making it clear what licence applies. This applies both in CZ records and CDI. We would like to make it clear to our users when a title is made available under a particular licence terms.
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Kaunas University of Technology Press eBooks Collection
Please add the collection of ebooks published by Kaunas University of Technology Press.
eBooks (study books, textbooks, monographs, research papers, and conference proceedings) are written in Lithuanian and English. Some of them are open access. There are currently over 1000 ebooks in total. iPublishCentral platform is used.
Link to the website: https://ebooks.ktu.edu.
For more detailed information, please contact by e-mail linas.salelionis@library.lt.59 votes -
Vytautas Magnus University Press OA Journal Collection
Please add the collection of open-access journals published by Vytautas Magnus University Press.
The articles are written in English and Lithuanian. There are currently 16 journals in total. The Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform is used.
Link to the website: https://ejournals.vdu.lt/.
For more detailed information, please contact by e-mail linas.salelionis@library.lt.58 votes -
new e-collection for: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University journals
Please include journals (listed below) published by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press as target collection in Uresolver and SFX:
Journal of Civil Engineering and Management;
Transport;
Journal of Business Economics and Management;
Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management;
International Journal of Strategic Property Management.NB these journals 2011–2017 were co-published with Taylor and Francis.
58 votes
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