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  1. Add new provider: PiinPoint

    Provider:PiinPoint
    Resource: PiinPoint
    https://www.piinpoint.com/

    5 votes
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  2. Add new provider: SolidProfessor

    Provider: SolidProfessor
    Resource: SolidProfessor
    https://solidprofessor.com/

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  3. Add new provider: Reconciliation Education

    Please add a new provider, Reconciliation Education, and their product, 4 Seasons of Reconciliation.
    https://www.reconciliationeducation.ca/en-ca/

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  4. EOSC - European Open Science Cloud

    Please add EOSC-European Open Science Cloud to the knowledgebase so we can access it in Summon.

    https://open-science-cloud.ec.europa.eu/

    EOSC EU Node is a platform that primarily supports multi-disciplinary and multi-national research promoting the use of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data and supplementary services in Europe and beyond.

    3 votes
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  5. Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL)

    Please add the following OA resource to the Alma CZ:

    Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL)
    Access URL: https://sea.lib.niu.edu/
    New provider: Southeast Asian Digital Library
    Contact: https://sea.lib.niu.edu/contact

    The Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL) is a growing repository of resources from and about the region of Southeast Asia. SEADL is a multi-institutional project and our digital collections come from libraries and archives around the world. SEADL supports research and education in Southeast Asian Studies by making these unique digitized materials freely accessible in one website.

    Thanks!
    Amelia Rodarte
    Duke University

    16 votes
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  6. filtering out book chapters with no meaningful scholarly content

    Develop a method for filtering out book chapters with no meaningful scholarly content from CDI (e.g., title page, copyright, acknowledgements, etc.). These tend to glut up search results and confuse library patrons.

    For example:

    Chapter Title = Frontmatter
    https://rutgers.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=title,begins_with,frontmatter,AND&tab=Everything_except_research&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI_2&sortby=title&vid=01RUT_INST:01RUT&lang=en&mode=advanced&offset=0&facet=rtype,include,book_chapters,lk

    Chapter Title = Title page
    https://rutgers.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=title,begins_with,title%20page,AND&tab=Everything_except_research&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI_2&sortby=title&vid=01RUT_INST:01RUT&lang=en&mode=advanced&offset=0&facet=rtype,include,book_chapters,lk

    Chapter Title = Copyright
    https://rutgers.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=title,begins_with,copyright,AND&tab=Everything_except_research&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI_2&sortby=title&vid=01RUT_INST:01RUT&lang=en&mode=advanced&offset=0&facet=rtype,include,book_chapters,lk

    Chapter Title = Acknowledgements
    https://rutgers.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=title,begins_with,acknowledgements,AND&tab=Everything_except_research&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI_2&sortby=title&vid=01RUT_INST:01RUT&lang=en&mode=advanced&offset=0&facet=rtype,include,book_chapters,lk

    Chapter Title = Backmatter
    https://rutgers.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=title,begins_with,backmatter,AND&tab=Everything_except_research&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI_2&sortby=title&vid=01RUT_INST:01RUT&lang=en&mode=advanced&offset=0&facet=rtype,include,book_chapters,lk

    6 votes
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  7. Add UpToDate

    UpToDate is the only resource associated with improved patient outcomes and hospital performance. UpToDate topics are viewed more than 50 million times per month, this success reflects the breadth (25 specialties) and depth of clinical content (over 11,600 topic reviews, each answering multiple clinical questions).
    URL: https://www.uptodate.com/contents/search?UNID=^u&SRCSYS=EZPX229752
    Contact: alvaro.sandoval@wolterskluwer.com

    5 votes
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  8. OA Journal Medialex

    Please consider to add the content of Medialex, a Swiss specialist journal for media and communications law (ISSN 2504-1479). It has been published since 1995 and is available in Open access: https://medialex.ch/archiv/
    Currently, only some articles are available in the CDI from 2017 but all content is available in OA.
    For content details and metadada, please contact redaktion@medialex.ch

    9 votes
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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We currently don't receive any metadata from Medialex.

    Their content is available in CDI through DOAJ, and as this is a new provider, it will need to go through the CERV (previously NERS) voting cycle.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  9. Request to add Lux Magazine

    May we request to add a new collection, Lux Magazine, to ALMA? The platform name is Lux Magazine, and the journal title is Lux. The URL to access the title is https://www.lux-magazine.com/

    Mariyam

    3 votes
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  10. Please add the VitalSource target into SFX KB

    https://www.vitalsource.com/

    TalTech has bought Pearson textbooks from there, and I have made SFX local portfolios to link to them. But it's an important resource.

    Tiina Loogväli
    Tallinn University of Technology
    Administrator of e-resources

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

    Hello,

    This request has been selected as part of the 2026 CERV votes.

    We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for this collection.

    If you could share a contact person with this provider, that would be very helpful.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor


  11. Add new provider/Collection: EKB Journals (Egyptian journals)

    Please add EKB Journals to the SFX Knowledge Base.
    https://journals.ekb.eg/list_11.html

    This content provider hosts 1,102 Egyptian journals across a number of disciplines, of which the medical titles are of most interest to us:

    Agricultural Studies (89)
    Archaeology (25)
    Arts (21)
    Basic Sciences (81)
    Business Studies (38)
    Childhood & Kindergarten Studies (13)
    Computer Sciences (29)
    Dentistry (15)
    Economics and Political Science (27)
    Educational Studies (138)
    Engineering Studies (45)
    English Journals (535)
    Humanities (18)
    Legal Studies (33)
    Literary Studies (140)
    Media Studies (22)
    Medical Studies (109)
    Multidisciplinary (37)
    Nursing (18)
    Pharmaceutical Studies (16)
    Physical Education (33)
    Social Work Studies (22)
    Special Education…

    4 votes
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  12. Swedish Defense Research Agency

    Swedish Defense Research Agency conducts international security research. https://www.foi.se/en/foi/reports.html

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  13. ヨミダス (Yomidasu) by 読売新聞社 (Yomiuri Shimbun)

    Please add the collection: ヨミダス歴史館 (Yomidasu, Yomiuri Database Service) by 読売新聞社 (Yomiuri Shimbun).
    It’s a major daily newspaper in Japanese, and many academic libraries in Japan subscribe this database. This collection is available in alma CZ (Collection ID: 613790000000000856), but adding this to the CDI will make it more convenient for users.
    About: https://database.yomiuri.co.jp/about/rekishikan/about/
    Contact: https://database.yomiuri.co.jp/about/contact/

    6 votes
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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We currently do not receive any metadata from Yomiuri, therefore this idea has been updated to "New provider".

    It will be reviewed with other priorities and CERV voting cycle, as other new content providers are being addressed.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  14. J-GLOBAL by 科学技術振興機構 (Japan Science and Technology Agency)

    Please add the collection: J-GLOBAL by 科学技術振興機構 (Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan) to Central Discovery Index (CDI).
    This is an open access, comprehensive website for scientific and technical information with 10 types of information, such as articles, researchers, patents, etc. It’s an essential online service for Japanese scientists. This collection is available in alma CZ (Collection ID: 6114032540000041), but adding this to the CDI will make it more convenient for users.
    J-GLOBAL home: https://jglobal.jst.go.jp/
    Contents: https://jglobal.jst.go.jp/aboutus/content
    Contact: https://jglobal.jst.go.jp/info/contact

    6 votes
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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We currently do not receive any metadata from Japan Science and Technology Agency, therefore this idea has been updated to "New provider".

    It will be reviewed with other priorities and CERV voting cycle, as other new content providers are being addressed.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  15. British Government Publications

    British Government Publications https://www.gov.uk/official-document

    6 votes
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  16. Project Syndicate

    Please create a collection for the Project Syndicate website.
    We subscribe to the platform and that includes access to PS Quarterly, commentaries, commentaries archive, interviews, book reviews, analyses, etc. It would be wonderful if you could arrange CDI coverage, as well.

    4 votes
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  17. Add SciFinder-n collection

    SciFinder-n is a specialized resource for chemistry and chemical engineering, providing access to a collection of substances, reactions and scientific literature curated by expert scientists.
    URL: https://scifinder-n.cas.org
    Contact: agonzalez@acs-i.org

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  18. Add CDI metadata to CZ records for Mintel collections

    Community zone collections from Mintel are odd. All have CZ records, but only a few have corresponding CDI records. The CDI records duplicate the CZ records but with better metadata. An example is "Mintel Beauty and Personal Care: China" (ID: 613860000000000186; DBID:ACFGR) The CDI records are labeled "market research" and have a full description. The CZ records only contain a title. Mintel recently released Shibboleth functionality (and the CZ collections were updated accordingly), so I need to use the CZ records so the linking works. The CDI records are all "link in record," which only works with a proxy. So,…

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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The metadata Mintel provides is more suitable for CDI only, and although in previous years we have created collections with titles in the Kowledgebases, going forward we will only have the metadata presented in CDI.

    Please let me know which collections do not have metadata in CDI either in a comment to this idea, or directly to me

    tamar.ganor@clarivate.com.

    Regarding the authentication issue, I will consult with our support analysts on the best way to address this challenge.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  19. Add Transcript Open Library collections

    Dear support,

    please add the following Transcript Open Library collections:

    Transcript Open Library Medienwissenschaft 2024
    Transcript Open Library Medienwissenschaft 2023
    Transcript Open Library Medienwissenschaft 2022

    Thank you very much in advance.

    4 votes
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  20. Add C-SPAN content to CDI

    Purdue has worked with C-SPAN on adding a harvestable OAI-feed to the C-SPAN system. We have since added the content locally: https://purdue.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=any,contains,PURDUE_CSPAN&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01PURDUE_PUWL:PURDUE&offset=0

    There maybe an interest to have C-SPAN loaded at the CDI level now that an OAI_PMH feed is available?

    13 votes
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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    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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