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).
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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.…785 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…
187 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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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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Separate publisher and aggregator collections to filter out unavailable preprints
Publishers are increasingly adding preprints to their collections but aggregators do not add them until they have been fully "published". Because aggregators and publishers share collections on the CDI, it looks as if our aggregator links are broken in the catalogue. If aggregators and publishers provide different levels of access, can the collections be separated to reflect this?
This is important because the preprints tend to be the latest publications and so are in relatively high demand.51 votes -
CZ AMD bib material type revised
There are many AMD related collections (Collection ID: 61616107200003966; Collection ID: 61616086800003966 and so on) in ALMA CZ. We found many resources bib material type are defined as JOURNAL, which is wrong compared with the real situation(They may be manscript,document ,photograph in the database platform). However, we cannot upload electronic material type in batch to replace.
We think CZ should confirm and fix the wrong bib material type.
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Next Expected Update date for collections
Similar to the "Last Full Update" and "Last Partial Update" dates for collections, it could cut down on the volume of cases about new individual titles if the collections that get updated on a regular schedule also had "Next Expected Update" date to display.
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Create a way to distinguish volumes for a single title
There is a title in Gale resources, Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history : the Black experience in the Americas, that has several portfolios available. Each portfolio links to a different volume in Gale. Each portfolio has unique linking but if you see the title in Primo, you will see only the title listed, many times. I had to add a volume note to each portfolio so users could tell each title apart. This was not the only title I've found that is like this. Ex Libris stated there is no way to add the volume to the title. It…
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Audiobook as a format in the 360 knowledge base
Right now the only formats in the 360 knowledge base are monograph, serial, and video- I would like to have audiobook available.
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Can you please create a separate platform for ‘ScienceOpen’ to track title by title content available via ScienceOpen?
Hello,
Can you please create a separate platform dedicated for 'ScienceOpen' if convenient as Taylor and Francis have announced that they will not be publishing 'Review of African Political Economy' after completion of Volume 49, Issue 178, 2023 and the journal will be published through Science Open in 2024 instead? Looks like the main URL is https://www.scienceopen.com/
Thanks!
Best,
Sunita Gandhi for University of Kansas Libraries1 voteHello,
We will reach out to the provider and ask for the metadata for this collection.If you have a dedicated contact person you can share, that would be helpful.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
provide a display or report of indexing coverage
it would be great to have a way to look up the coverage dates of indexing for a given journal in CDI. This would help us know when to direct users to other indexing sources.
1 vote
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