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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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185 results found

  1. Create GeoScienceWorld Withdrawn Ebooks Collection

    Work with provider to create a separate, "withdrawn titles" collection for GeoScienceWorld content that is not available to new customers but is available to existing customers.

    [Ex Libris note: Related to support case # 07011161]

    4 votes
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  2. DART

    Please add records to DART-Europe E-theses Portal (JWZ) and make it discoverable in Summon.

    4 votes
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  3. Chinese Text Project

    Please add Chinese Text Project to the Alma Community Zone.
    https://ctext.org/
    Provider (in 360KB): Harvard University
    The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world.

    Thank you,
    Amelia Rodarte
    Duke University Libraries

    4 votes
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  4. 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.

    4 votes
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    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

  5. "Database for Research Thesis Catalog of Japanese Literature" for discovery

    "Database for Research Thesis Catalog of Japanese Literature(国文学論文目録データベース)" is a union catalog database of research papers on Japanese literature.

    https://ronbun.nijl.ac.jp/kokubun

    This database includes information on research papers on Japanese literature, Japanese language studies, and Japanese language education.

    It would be helpful for researchers if Ex Libris discovery included this database as a search target.

    Provider: National Institute of Japanese Literature
    Code: OFN

    4 votes
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    Hi,

    We will reach out to the National Institute of Japanese Literature and ask for the records metadata for this collection.

    Regards,


    Rachel

    Senior Content Support Analyst


  6. Create new/separate automatic holdings collections for Taylor & Francis

    I'd love to make use of the new Taylor & Francis automatic holdings feature, but the collections it points to are collections that we are already using. For certain providers, I prefer to use automatic holdings as a "back-up" to my own management. The "Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete" is the collection that the GOBI API uses. I'm also already using the "Taylor & Francis Current Content Access" for another reason. Springer and Wiley both have separate autoholdings collections. Could separate collections also be created for Taylor & Francis? Thanks!

    4 votes
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  7. WISO Videos Wirtschaftswissenschaften

    WISO Videos Wirtschaftswissenschaften is already added as a (portfolio)- selective collection to the ALMA CZ.

    Please also bring in the CDI functionality as well.
    The databases from GBI GENIOS are a very valuable resoruce within the German scientific community.

    Provider: GBI-Genios Deutsche Wirtschaftsdatenbank GmbH
    Freischützstr. 96
    81927 München
    wiso@genios.de
    +49 (0) 89 99 28 79 - 0

    Thank you very much!
    Best,
    Bärbel

    4 votes
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    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  8. IGI global

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

    4 votes
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  9. Add Archives Unbound constituent collections to Alma

    The Archives Unbound database is link in record. There are more than 200 collections within the database and we own only some of them. We have not enabled CDI for Archives Unbound because there would be too many false positives in Primo search results. As it stands, content in Archives Unbound is not discoverable for our users in Primo.
    Can you add the constituent collections as separate databases or as portfolios in the Archives Unbound collection? That way, we would be able to activate them for CDI and our users could discover them in Primo. Note that something similar has…

    3 votes
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    Hello,

    It appears we are still missing two collections:

    • Archives of the Work Projects Administration and Predecessors, 1933-1943
    • Food History: Printed and Manuscript Recipe Books, 1669-1990

    We are working with Gale to add these missing databases.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  10. Post additional standard organizations on ASTM platform

    ASTM has several standard organizations that we (as customers) can subscribe to. Each of these should have their own community zone collection with CDI.
    International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), UNE-EN ISO

    There may need to be more than one ISO collection as I'm not sure if all standards are available everywhere regardless of subscription location.

    3 votes
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  11. Sustainable Development Goals Online from Taylor and Francis CDI collection

    Please could SDGO be added as a collection in the CDI? This is a collection of mainly articles and book chapters, and so the contents cannot be activated through portfolios in the Alma CZ.
    https://www.taylorfrancis.com/sdgo/

    3 votes
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    Hello,

    We have received the mapping for the discovery metadata for the general SDGO collection, and it will be added by November 2023.

    Please be advised that currently there is no way for us to map the SDGO sub-collections, because the chapters and articles CDI metadata does not contain any tags to match them to the sub-collections.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  12. Add Emerald 2023 eBook Collections

    Add the 2023 Yearly Ebook Collections as separate 360KB Databases from Emerald listed in the Book collections ZIP files here - https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/how-to/librarians/toolkit/content-cataloguing-and-discovery/kbart-records

    Also if these collections could be automated to be added every year that would be even more helpful

    3 votes
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  13. 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!

    3 votes
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  14. Add Thieme MedOne Education to CDI

    Currently, only few ebooks from the Thieme MedOne Education collection are being displayed in Summon. Please consider adding the complete collection (cca 115 ebooks) to CDI.

    Thanks in advance!

    3 votes
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    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  15. Eurostat (FMK)

    Hi,

    We have activated the database Eurostat (FMK), but we can not find any records in Summon from the database. Please check this.

    Kind regards
    Carl

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  16. PsycTherapy collection for Ebsco

    There are no PsycTherapy collection with working links for PsycTherapy with Ebsco

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    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  17. De Gruyter Subtargets

    Please add the following subtargets, they are still missing:

    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS CLASSICAL STUDIES 2020
    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS CLASSICAL STUDIES 2021
    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE 2020
    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE 2021
    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS SOCIAL SCIENCES 2021
    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS HISTORY 2020
    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS HISTORY 2021
    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS ARTS 2020
    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS ARTS 2021
    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS LITERARY CULTURAL AND AREA STUDIES 2020
    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS LITERARY CULTURAL AND AREA STUDIES 2021
    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS LINGUISTICS 2020
    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS LINGUISTICS 2021
    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS PHILOSOPHY 2020
    DE GRUYTER EBOOKS PHILOSOPHY…

    3 votes
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    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  18. BELTZ TRAINING COACHING BERATUNG 2020

    It would be great, if you could add the subtarget BELTZ TRAINING COACHING BERATUNG 2020 (in SFX KB) because it is still missing.

    Kind regards
    Melanie Hoyer

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    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  19. Beltz Soziologie 2019

    It would be great, if you could add the subtarget BELTZSOZIOLOGIE2019 (in SFX KB) because it is still missing

    Kind regards
    Melanie Hoyer

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    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  20. 3 votes
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    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

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