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Specifically you can suggest:
• New collections for Discovery (Primo Central and Summon)
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Idunn open access e-books
Idunn open access e-books
We would like to see open access e-books from Universitetsforlaget added as a separate e-collection in Alma CZ. For more details, see this link:
https://www.universitetsforlaget.no/en/boker/apen-tilgangNote that there are two Idunn e-collections in CZ already:
Idunn.no (all Idunn portfolios)
IDUNN Open Acess Journals343 votesHello,
We will review this request to be considered in our ingestion plans.
Thank you for your contribution!
Best,
Rael -
LibreTexts
We would like to add LibreTexts vast collection of open educational resources (OER) to CDI: https://libretexts.org/
LibreTexts is home to the largest collection of open educational resources online. Adding this resource to CDI would ensure users have access to OER from across a wide variety of disciplines.
184 votesHello,
We will review this request for OER content for ingestion in CDI.
Thank you for your contribution.
Best,
Rael -
Add LibreTexts ebooks and course material to Alma CZ
We would like to add LibreTexts vast collection of open educational resources (OER), including ebooks and course materials bibliographic records added to the Alma CZ: https://libretexts.org/ Then, libraries could add LibreTexts ebooks and course materials to course reserve lists in Alma and Primo.
LibreTexts is home to the largest collection of open educational resources online. Adding LibreTexts ebooks and course materials to the Alma CZ would ensure users have access to OER from across a wide variety of disciplines.
Thanks,
Ryan Edwards
West Los Angeles College Library
edwardre@wlac.edu89 votesHello,
We will investigate adding this content alongside our inquiry to ingest this content in our Discovery products.
Thank you for your contribution!
Best,
Rael -
Add Firenze University press open access book collection
Firenze University Press publishes the outcomes of academic research carried out by the University of Florence and by the national scientific community, with the aim at spreading them both at national and international levels.
A certain number of these works are included in the open access catalogue.
All publications are certified by the Editorial Board that coordinates the peer review process.It's possible harvesting data via OAI-PMH.
Info: https://www.fupress.com/openaccess
contact: info@fupress.com
707 votesHello all,
Thank you for reaching out to the provider. We now have a contact person and will be able to begin discussions.
Best,
Rael -
Añadir los paquetes "VLEX Global" y "Vlex Premiun" en la CZ de ALMA
En la CZ de Alma hay dos bases de datos del editor Vlex: Vlex Books y Vlex Journals. Sin embargo este editor no comercializa de esta manera sus paquetes. Es posible suscribir Vlex Global (donde hay libros y revistas) y Vlex Premiun (donde también hay libros y revistas). Si un cliente suscribe Vlex Global debe dar de alta una colección local de libros, otra local de revistas y no seleccionar títulos del paquete de revistas y del paquete de libros que hay en la CZ.
¿Sería posible que se reunieran con el editor para que las colecciones de Vlex que…
49 votesHello,
Thank you for your contribution and explanation about this content.
We will review this request for inclusion in our Delivery products.Best,
Rael -
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…38 votes -
Add Overdrive to 360 KB and Summon
Many academic libraries are using this product. It would be good to have integrated into discovery systems.
52 votes -
BCcampus Open Textbook Collection
British Columbia Open Textbook
currently 327 titlesMARC records
https://bceln.ca/services-initiatives-resource-sharing-bc-open-textbook-marc51 votes -
Open Textbook Catalog: Please use direct feed of MARC records from https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/discovery
In the CZ there is an existing collection (613790000000001601) for the Open Textbook Catalog.
Compared to the MARC records available at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/discovery the CZ collection has fewer titles (651 vs 766 as of 07/13/2020).
Also the CZ bibliographic records are extremely brief and usually have nothing more than a title in the 245 field. The bib records from open.umn.edu are fuller with author, title, publisher, content and summary notes and subject headings.
This request is to ask Exlibris to use the publicly available MARC bib records from the open.umn.edu website to enhance the existing CZ collection.
Thank you.
-Marcus
97 votesHello,
Thank you for raising this request.
We will check if a signed agreement is required here in order to start the analysis and then will prioritize for future acquisition.Best,
Rael -
Add Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher (TOAEP) Open Access books to the KB
Add this Open Access publisher to the Knowledge Base;
https://toaep.org/ps/
https://toaep.org/pbs/
https://toaep.org/ops/
https://toaep.org/lotfs/
https://toaep.org/nas/39 votes -
INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS- add collection
Please add a separate collection for the INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS's journals at Alma Community Zone.
Currently, their portfolios exist under the Project Euclid collection with many other various publishers that are hosted on it.
This makes it impossible to open an order for the complete package as it is sold by the publisher.
Titles in the collection:
Annales de I'lnstitut Henri Poincaré (B) Probabilités et Statistiques (ISSN 0246‐0203)
The Annals of Applied Probability (ISSN 1050‐5164)
The Annals of Probability (ISSN 0091‐1798)
The Annals of Applied Statistics ( ISSN 1932‐6157)
The Annals of Statistics (ISSN 0090‐5364)
Bernoulli (ISSN 1350‐7265)
Brazilian…19 votes -
Add Perlego collections for the Knowledgebase (Alma CZ)
Consider to add the Perlego collection to the CZ of Alma.
The vendor provides an online library of academic resources with over 400,000 titles in several topics.
Many international publishers are participate in the collection which can be very useful for academic institutions especially for textbooks.
35 votesHello,
We will review this request for addition to our Delivery products.
Thank you for your contribution.
Best,
Rael -
qinsight
Please add the following Electronic Collection to the Community Zone:
Qinsight
https://www.quetzal-search.info/homeThe vendor is Quertle, Inc. (https://quertle.com/about/)
Qinsight integrates content from multiple sources, covering almost all biomedical journals, patents (grants and applications), clinical trials, treatment protocols, NIH grant applications, and much more. Qinsight covers over 44 million (and growing) documents. Qinsight is not a federated search engine but rather applies its AI methods to the original content enabling discovery that goes beyond traditional search and natural language processing.
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Mohr Siebeck eBooks
Hello,
Could you please add the following Electronic Collection (selective package) to the Alma Community Zone: "Mohr Siebeck eBooks"
See: https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/ or https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/elektronische-publikationen
There is already such a database in Intota with currently 3520 eBooks: "Mohr Siebeck eBooks (ACFBZ)"
Thank you very much.
Best,
Oliver18 votes -
Policy database, via Informit
The Policy database was announced in March 2019, from the Analysis & Policy Observatory https://apo.org.au/page/about-apo. It is an open access grey literature repository, hosted by Swinburne and made available via Informit.
Press Release: https://www.informit.org/news/informit-policy-database-apo
Please add this content to Ex Libris discovery services.46 votesHello,
Thank you for suggesting this content.
We will analyze this request to include in the CDI and our Delivery products.Best,
Rael -
Westlaw UK - adding indexing metadata
Westlaw UK (Thomson Reuters) - adding new indexing metadata
Westlaw UK is currently a 0 titles database in the Client Centre (Code AYDUG).Can the metadata be acquired from the provider and added to the index?
15 votes -
PCI / CDI: Please make sure that Open Access archives are really OA
In Primo Central Index / Central Discovery Index, some archives are incorrectly referred to as Open Access.
Please check the availability of documents in Open Access archives with "Link in record". If these archives sometimes also contain blocked documents or only title pages, tables of contents or abstracts, please split these archives into several collections, e.g. Open Access and Restricted Access.
Records which link only to title pages, tables of contents or abstracts should not appear in Open Access collections with "Link in record".
Example:
Open Access LMU (https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de)
Auf "Open Access LMU" finden Sie 64725 verzeichnete Publikationen…98 votes -
Add "subscribe by email" and other ways to monitor CKB release notes
It is crucial for us to monitor CKB release notes to ensure that collection activations are appropriately revised in response to changes. At present, the only way to monitor the notes is by RSS feed, which is cumbersome -- it is very easy to miss changes with only RSS feed updates. Please add other means of monitoring these changes, such as subscribing to the release notes by email.
34 votes -
Add new HeinOnline Collection
Add HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice
13 votes -
Add PsycINFO citations to CDI
Currently, APA PsycINFO citations are not being displayed in Summon. Please consider ingesting the information so that it shows up in the discovery layer
15 votes
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