Content
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).
- Check if your idea has already been posted and vote for it before posting a new idea.
- Choose the right category: "New Provider" for content from a provider that has no available content in the KBs or CDI, or "Existing Provider" for content from a provider that already has content available in the KBs or CDI.
- Add a direct link to the provider/resource you suggest, and a contact person if possible.
- For enrichment requests add the relevant collection ID(s).
- Make sure you mention any specific added value your idea has to the community such as language or supporting diversity.
- Did you find errors in an existing collection? please open a case.
- A new year has begun but no corresponding annual collection? post an idea in Idea Exchange, make sure to mention if it is an existing provider.
- Existing Provider - if your idea is for a new collection from a provider that already has content available in the KBs and CDI or enriching records for an existing collection, use this category. No voting is necessary, ideas for existing providers will be handled regardless of voting.
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- Other - for non provider specific ideas
47 results found
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Missing Oxford Handbooks Online 2025 Subject Collections
Could the following 2025 Oxford Handbooks Online subject collections be added to the CZ:
Oxford Handbooks Online Social Work and Social Policy 2025
Oxford Handbooks Online Criminology and Criminal Justice 2025
Oxford Handbooks Online Physical Science 2025Thank you!
3 votes -
Add SAE EDGE Research Reports - 2025
The SAE EDGE Research Reports collections are available for Alma activation for publication years 2019 - 2024. Please, can you add the 2025 EDGE reports collection, as well?
Thanks!
3 votes -
Add for 360 KB: Africa Commons: Pan-African Magazines
Please add the following database to the 360 KB. 0-title for ERM purposes is fine.
Provider: Coherent Digital
Database: African Commons: Pan-African Magazines.
URL: https://africacommons.net/search/?i=collections&modules=AFCO_AFM3Thank you!
3 votes -
Enrich bib records for VLeBooks
Hello,
Please try to get enriched bib records from Brown's for their VleBooks titles:
https://www.brownsbfs.co.uk/Pages/VLeBooksThis provider is going to be added to the Rialto Marketplace soon and it's really important that there be provider bib records from them.
Thanks.
1 vote -
HathiTrust journal titles not retrieved via Summon/CDI
We are a Summon over Alma library. We have the "HathiTrust Digital Library Full View U.S. Only" collection activated as an electronic collection (Collection ID: 6113938890000041, it is a database and not an aggregator).
When material is searched via Summon, the journals in HathiTrust do not show as available on the Alma Services Page.
Example: Journal Title, The Southern Workman
Currently if this title is searched in Journal titles it shows we have one year from Gale. But Hathi has a handful of years available as well.Alma: https://liberty.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01LIBU_INST/ighba7/alma9911577500704916
HathiTrust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=Southern+Workman&searchtype=title&ft=ft&setft=true
Please add HathiTrust journals to…
1 vote -
Add HeinOnline Case Law Premium
HeinOnline has recently added a new database called Case Law Premium to supposedly replace the Fastcase Premium database. Please add this new database to CZ.
Thanks!
3 votes -
Bloomsbury Video Library: Visual and Applied Arts Collection 2025 Annual update for 360 and CDI
I have been advised by the Content Support team to submit this request here 'to ensure better transparency and efficiency'.
Could we please add the 2025 Annual Update for Bloomsbury Video Library: Visual and Applied Arts Collection to the 360 KB and CDI?
Thank you.
1 voteHello,
We will reach out to Bloomsbury, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add Wolters Kluwer VitalLaw collection
Could a title level collection be added for VitalLaw, from Wolters Kluwer? VitalLaw is essential for academic law libraries, firms, and cross-displinary studies like business, healthcare, and economics. The VitalLaw platform includes treatises, journals, primary law, and research tools, specializing in the areas of tax, securities, international law, and business law. VitalLaw is widely used alongside Lexis and Westlaw, so I think it should have the same or similar discovery options available. It would be really helpful for my library and many others, I think. Thanks!
3 votes -
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.
3 votes
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
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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…
4 votesHello,
We will reach out to University of Arizona, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add new GALE collections
- 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
- Times Digital Archive 2020-2024 collection https://link.gale.com/apps/TTDA?u
1 voteHello,
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
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Enrichment of Community Zone bibliographic records for Pressreader
Enrich and update Pressreader with bibliographic records in CZ.
42 votesHello,
We will reach out to Pressreader, and ask for the metadata for their collections.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Enrichment of Community Zone bibliographic records for Mediearkivet
Enrich and update Mediearkivet with bibliographic records in CZ.
46 votesHello,
we will reach out to this provider and ask for the metadata for this collection.
If you could please share a contact information, that would be very helpful.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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.
1 voteHello,
We will reach out to Ovid, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Projectr Streaming Video MARC Enrichment
Please try to obtain comprehensive MARC records from Projectr, a streaming video platform from Grasshopper Films. Some of their CZ collections have enriched records from Alexander Street but Alexander Street only hosts a subset of their platform.
4 votesHello,
We will reach out to Projectr, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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.
7 votesHello Charlie,
We will reach out to Kanopy, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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ADD to CZ - RISE (RILM Index to Scores and Collected Editions)
Please add an Elec Collection for the RISE (RILM Index to Scores and Collected Editions). This is a new product from RILM. https://www.rilm.org/rise/
What is RISE?
Building on the legacy of the Index to Printed Music, RISE is a comprehensive digital finding aid for locating musical works published within collections, sets, and series. It indexes individual pieces found in complete editions of composers’ works, anthologies of music, born-digital editions, and scholarly collections. Each record includes detailed descriptions: performing forces/instrumentation, language, genre, type of score, sources, and publication information. With more than 590,000 entries, RISE expands every year to include new…5 votesHello,
We will reach out to RILM, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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
6 votesHello,
We will reach out to University of Toronto Press, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add Educ'Arte Video
Hello,
could you add Educ'Arte Video as Campus Arte (https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-content/suggestions/48797672-add-arte-video-campus) ?
Many of the titles are similar to the Campus Arte collection, but some titles are only available to school audiences.
https://supporteducarte.zendesk.com/hc/fr/requests/new
https://educ.arte.tv/Kind regards,
Mireille Pochon8 votesHello,
As this is a new provider, we are still working on onboarding their content to the Knowledgebases and CDI.
We will add this collection to the list we are asking from them, and it would be helpful if you could also mention to the provider that you are interested in adding their metadata to Ex Libris products.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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ESV Open
Please check with the provider 'Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co.', if a new collection 'ESV Open' can be added to the Community zone for all Open Access titles from Erich Schmidt Verlag.
5 votesHello,
We will reach out to ESV, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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