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  1. Add IEICE Digital Library for Central Discovery Index

    The content of IEICE is widely used in research institutes and universities in Japan.
    Please consider adding IEICE Digital Library in the Central Discovery Index.

    IEICE Digital Library
    https://www.ieice.org/publications/search/index.php?conts=ken&lang=en

    Some content of IEICE is already searchable, but the data is not properly and comprehensively loaded.

    Provider: Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
    Code: PRVEIC

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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We will reach out to Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and ask for a CDI feed.

    If you have a contact person with this provider, please share in this idea or directly with me

    tamar.ganor@clarivate.com .

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  2. Add "Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals" to Summon Index (CDI) Request

    Please index these Gale's DBs to Summon (CDI) .

    Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, Part I: Women's, Children's, Humour, and Leisure
    Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, Part II: Empire

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  3. Include a new Wiley Digital Archives collection in the Summon index

    Please could British Association for the Advancement of Science – Collections on the History of Science (1830s-1970s) on the Wiley Digital Archives platform be added as a collection to Summon?

    Other Wiley Digital Archives Collections are already in the Summon Index:

    Wiley Digital Archives : New York Academy of Sciences

    Wiley Digital Archives : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

    Wiley Digital Archives : Royal College of Physicians

    Wiley Digital Archives : Royal Geographical Society

    Description: The Archive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and connected collections from UK universities covers astronomy, biology, technology,…

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  4. CHEMnetBASE titles

    The database CHEMnetBASE has a number of titles attached to it that are currently not in Alma.
    Please add these missing titles:
    Combined Chemical Dictionary:  https://ccd.chemnetbase.com
    Dictionary of Drugs:  https://dod.chemnetbase.com
    Dictionary of Natural Products: https://dnp.chemnetbase.com

    Dictionary of Organic Compounds: https://doc.chemnetbase.com

    Dictionary of Food Compounds: https://dfc.chemnetbase.com

    Dictionary of Marine Natural Products: https://dmnp.chemnetbase.com

    Handbook of Chemistry and Physics: https://hbcp.chemnetbase.com

    Polymers: A Property Database: https://poly.chemnetbase.com

    Properties of Organic Compounds: https://poc.chemnetbase.com

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  5. INFOBASE

    Please add INFOBASE's
    -Bloom's Literature
    -Issues & Controversies
    -Today's Science
    -World News Digest
    ...to the Summon Index

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  6. Add Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights [Adam Matthew]

    Add Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights [Adam Matthew]

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  7. Add two new Bloomsbury collections: T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, and Eerdmans Digital Reference Library

    Bloomsbury has shared that they have already sent these collections to discovery providers:

    T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism

    Eerdmans Digital Reference Library

    Thank you,
    Virginia

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  8. Add collection for the Daily Observer Digital Archive

    Please add the following newspaper to the Ex Libris 360 Knowledgebase. It is an open access resource. It's part of the Global Press Archive by provider East View Information Services

    Title: Daily Observer Digital Archive
    Coverage: 2/23/1981-12/31/2014
    URL: https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/doda/newspapers/lodo
    Provider: East View Information Services
    Code: PRVEVP

    Thank you!

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  9. British Newsreels from Adam Matthew

    Pleads add British Newsreels [newly published] from Adam Matthew.
    https://www.britishnewsreels.amdigital.co.uk

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  10. Create CZ collection for Cambridge Histories Online: 2023

    I have moved my original submission from the general exchange to the content exchange here.

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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Thanks Courtney, this is indeed the right place to post these requests.

    We are already working on this collection, but there are some technical details that need to be worked out.

    I will post in the comments once we make some progress.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  11. request new collections to be added[NII-REO Springer Journal Archive,NII-REO: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 1501- Vol. 17

    NII-REO(OJA) currently applies the National Academic License to the following collections.

    Could you please create new 2 databases?

    1.
    Provider:National Institute of Informatics
    Database Name:NII-REO: Springer Journal Archive
    Titles: Journal 70
    Default URL:https://reo.nii.ac.jp/oja/HtmlIndicate/html/journal/publishers/SUP0000007000.html

    2.
    Provider:National Institute of Informatics
    Database Name:NII-REO:Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science(Vol. 1501- Vol. 1760)
    Titles: 259

    Default URL:https://reo.nii.ac.jp/oja/HtmlIndicate/html/vol_issues/SUP0000008000/JOU0008000000/lncs_volumes.html

    The title list can be obtained from the download button on the web page.
    https://support.nii.ac.jp/ja/reo/oja/oja_db

    Supplier entered as ”Springer Journal Archive” corresponds to 1. NII-REO: Springer Journal Archive.

    Supplier entered as ”Springer LNCS” corresponds to 2. NII-REO: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 1501- Vol.…

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  12. Add Morgan & Claypool's 9th Collection of Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science to SFX KB (other 8 already in SFX).

    Add Morgan & Claypool's 9th Collection of Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science to SFX KB (other 8 already in SFX).

    Info here: https://www.morganclaypool.com/page/coll_nine

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  13. Brepolis Library of Latin Texts [formerly Library of Latin Texts A, B]

    Requesting CZ content for Brepolis Library of Latin Texts [formerly Library of Latin Texts A and B, merged by provider in 2021].

    Library of Latin Texts A [collection ID: 613790000000000926) and Library of Latin Texts B [collection ID: 613790000000000922) contain outdated links and have not been updated since 2021. Metadata for both was poorer quality than what was supplied by vendor.

    A customer-contributed collection (Univ. of Western Australia) for Library of Latin Texts (collection ID: 61665968760007861) results in errors for about 100 records upon activation.

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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    For enrichment we will need to sign an agreement with the provider, so it might take some time.

    Nonetheless, we will reach out to Brepols and ask for an updated title list for these two collections.

    Regarding the contributed collection, it is managed by the contributing library. Feel free to reach out directly to them in order to communicate the necessary changes eres-lib@uwa.edu.au.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  14. CDI records request for InteLex Past Masters collection

    Our client University of Guelph has requested the CDI provide record coverage for the InteLex Past Masters CRKN collection (Collection ID: 615410000000002433)

    MARC records for the titles included in InteLex Past Masters website directly: https://www.nlx.com/marc_records/4.

    Please work with Dan Haig at InteLex to acquire data for the CDI to enrich user discovery for this collection.

    Thank you!

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  15. CDI collection for Elsevier Open Access articles

    Could you please add a CDI database only collection with links in record for Elsevier open access articles?

    There is no longer an Elsevier open access knowledge base collection https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-content/suggestions/43048611-add-elsevier-open-access-collection-to-alma-cz

    And I think this would work better as a CDI collection given how many OA articles there are in hybrid journals.

    For example, 76,000 archival articles were made open as the result of a large United States Library consortia agreement:
    https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/03/16/retroactively-open-elsevier-backflips-for-nerl-agreement/

    And these OA articles should be more easily discoverable via a dedicated CDI link in record collection.

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  16. Early American Newspapers, Series 20

    Please add Readex's Early American Newspapers, Series 20, 1812-1876: America's Industrial Centers and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Immigration to the 360KB and Alma CZ.

    Thank you,
    Amelia Rodarte
    Duke University

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  17. add KU Language Science Press 2024-2026 to alma

    Hello,
    I see the older Knowledge Unlatched Language Science Press packages, but not this one to choose: KU Language Science Press 2024-2026. Can you please add this most recent one so we can activate it?
    Much appreciated!

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  18. IGI global

    Please consider adding a collection to the 360 KB for the IGI Global EBA for the Carolina Consortium.
    Thank you!

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  19. Add two Wiley Digital Archives ebook collections

    This is a request to add the following Wiley Digital Archives ebook collections:

    1) Environmental Science and History
    2) Royal Geographic Society.

    Thank you so much.

    Best Regards,
    Mahdi Ganjavi

    Metadata Production and Electronic Access Specialist
    Department of Metadata Services, University of Toronto

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    Planned  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Wiley responded that the Environmental Science and History (ENV) collection is scheduled for completion in Spring 2024, we will add that collection then.

    Regarding the Royal Geographical Society, the metadata will be provided not directly by Wiley but by a 3rd party so it requires some legal clarification.

    In the meantime, we have created two zero title databases to activate for this request:

    dbid: RPVOM - WILEY_DIGITAL_ARCHIVES_ROYAL_GEOGRAPHICAL_SOCIETY_PART_I
    dbid: APJRU - WILEY_DIGITAL_ARCHIVES_ROYAL_GEOGRAPHICAL_SOCIETY_PART_II

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  20. Break up IBISWorld into sub-collections

    The existing IBISWorld collection (IBISWorld Alma ID 6113915960000041 DBID 6EY) is for the entire platform, but many customers license only a subset of that content. The smaller IBISWorld collections in the CZ are not connected to a CDI DB and they aren't complete (e.g., there's no collection for the Ontario Provincial Reports). Please make more subset collections and CDI DBs for them.

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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,
    We will reach out to the provider and ask for the metadata for the sub-collections.

    We will also look into mapping them to CDI.
    Thanks,
    Tamar Ganor
    Content Product Manager

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