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  1. Add Zhejiang University Journal Resource Repository to the Alma Community Zone/SFXKB and 360KB

    AcadeMax is a journal publishing platform for the discovery of academic content published by Zhejiang University Press (ZJUP) and its publishing partners, currently more than 80 journals are now available. I wish Ex Libris would add AcadMax Resource Repository(https://www.academax.com) to the Alma Community Zone/SFXKB and 360KB.

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  2. Add ISLaS+ database to Alma

    ISLaS+ is a consortial ILS shared by most of Greek universities. In order to benefit from their metadata, it would be a great asset to integrate its database to the external ressources harvested by Alma. This would be especially useful for libraries with Moder Greek collections.

    Search interface: https://ilsas-opac.seab.gr/
    Project page: https://ilsas.alis.uniwa.gr/

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  3. Sidestone Press : Open Access and freely available E-Books

    The books from the publisher Sidestone Press can be read on its website for free immediately upon publication. Furthermore according to their Open Access model, the publisher makes their books available for free download 4 years after publication.
    Their catalogue contains ca. 450 titles and 40-60 new books are published each year.

    Based on a request from a reference librarian, I ask you to get in contact with Sidestone press and check whether these freely and Open Access titles can be added as a collection in the CZ.

    https://www.sidestone.com/contact/
    https://www.sidestone.com/publishing/open-access-policy

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  4. EU Farmbook

    Please consider adding EU FarmBook (https://eufarmbook.eu/search
    ) to the Summon index.

    EU FarmBook is an open-access platform that collects and shares practical knowledge, research outputs, and best practices from EU agricultural and rural development projects.

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  5. Enrichment of Community Zone bibliographic records for Mediearkivet

    Enrich and update Mediearkivet with bibliographic records in CZ.

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  6. Enrichment of Community Zone bibliographic records for Pressreader

    Enrich and update Pressreader with bibliographic records in CZ.

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  7. Add Pressbooks Directory records to the CKB as a portfolio collection

    Previously the Pressbooks Directory was added to the CDI: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-content/suggestions/42757319-ners-2021-pressbooks-directory

    That idea includes many community comments around a desire for a CKB collection instead, with significant benefits to this, such as adding metadata for discovery and to support OER initiatives by the library.

    There is good news starting in August, as Pressbooks has added an OPDS feed to their environment:
    https://pressbooks.directory/opds
    August 2025 update: https://youtu.be/45GPrE-l8Hg?si=8gPkGAKcdwueXZqd&t=718

    It would be great if Ex Libris could support Alma/Primo libraries globally to add these records as a portfolio based title level collection to the Alma Community Zone, as an Ex Libris managed collection.

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  8. New electronic collections for Droz

    Could you add several electronic collections from the publisher Librairie Droz ?

    Oeuvres complètes de Calvin (124 ebooks) : https://calviniopera.droz.org/
    Histoire des idées et critique littéraire (198 ebooks) : https://hicl.droz.org/
    Histoire du droit (74 ebooks) : https://histoiredudroit.droz.org/
    Calvin et Genève (261 ebooks) : https://calvin.droz.org/

    These collections are not totally covered by the French national licence : https://www.licencesnationales.fr/les-corpus-acquis/droz-portails-calvin-et-humanisme-et-renaissance/

    Best regards

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  9. Skift Research

    Please create a collection for Skift Research. Access URL: https://myproxy.skift.com/proxy-gateway

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  10. KL Hatke

    Please consider adding the online publication KL Hatke to the community zone. KL Hatke is a media platform that produces articles written by women in rural India. The content is mainly articles. It would be great to have this added as a portfolio or database so that the CDI might create article records for discovery.

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  11. Create a CZ Collection for Audio Cine Films (ACF)

    Please add a CZ collection for Audio Cine Films (ACF) in Alma. Almost half of the IZ's in our consortia subscribe to this resource.

    https://www.acf-film.com/en/index.php

    From the vendor: Audio Cine Films Inc. is one of the largest non-theatrical (markets outside commercial theatres) film rights representative in Canada, with exclusive rights to one of the largest film libraries available. We manage copyrights related to the public presentation of films produced by the studios we exclusively represent in Canada and issue copyright licenses that allow all types of organisations to present films within a public performance environment without infringing upon the Canadian…

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  12. Enrich Kanopy PDA collections

    Please work with Kanopy to enrich the records in the Kanopy PDA collections in the Alma CZ.

    e.g.
    Kanopy Europe Academic PDA Collection
    Collection ID: 61554803020000041

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  13. 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.

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  14. BoardGameGeek data

    BoardGameGeek is a repository of all board games and many video games (this section is slowly growing) that have been published and released, and many of these are available in many of our libraries. This site has cover images, details about publication dates, etc, and sometimes even instruction manuals.

    An API is available here for the "things" (what they call the games/etc)

    https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/BGG_XML_API2

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  15. 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

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  16. Add: West African Magazines, part of Africa Commons from Coherent Digital

    Related to: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-content/suggestions/46772746-add-africa-commons-from-coherent-digital

    West African Magazines is an additional module we would like to activate from within the Community Zone.

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  17. Please add the OA eBooks from INC Publications (Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences)

    Most of the eBooks from INC Publications (Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) are published under the Creative Commons as Open Access eBooks. There are much interesting titles which would be fine to find in the Community Zone.

    Would you be so kind to find a way with the provider and add these eBooks to the CZ?
    INC Publications: https://networkcultures.org/publications/
    Contact: https://networkcultures.org/contact/

    Thanks a lot.

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  18. New Provider: Collecto

    Please create the following Collecto Collections in the CZ:
    Références économiques (CRAAQ)
    Vidéos (CRAAQ)
    PDF (CRAAQ)
    Corps Humain Virtuel
    Encyclopédies de Poche (CAIRN)
    Érudit
    Eureka
    Le Grand Robert & Collins
    Le Petit Robert
    Le Petit Robert Intégral
    Magazines restreint (CAIRN)
    Multidictionnaire
    Ouvrages de Recherche (CAIRN)
    Revues (CAIRN)

    Some of these collections require site specific URLs, so linking parameters will be required in the collections.

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  19. Cappelen Damm Open Access ebooks

    We request the creation of a separate e-collection in Alma CZ for open access ebooks from Cappelen Damm Forskning. This is the research publishing division of Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

    https://cdforskning.no/cdf/catalog/newReleases
    Via the link above, you can find their academic open access book releases. Many of these books are published in Norwegian, a language we naturally want to promote for our students and researchers.

    Please note that Cappelen Damm Forskning is already a content provider in Alma CZ. The records for their OA ebooks are available through the OAPEN (613450000000000043) and DOAB (613680000000000027) e-collections. Since these records already exist in CZ…

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  20. Please add BFI Player from British Film Institute

    We have a subscription to BFI Player. Please add this as a collection in the CZ with updates of portfolios

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