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  1. Shanghai Library Chinese and English Newspaper of Modern China, series 3-6

    The CZ already includes a collection:
    Shanghai Library Chinese and English Newspaper of Modern China - Comprehensive Collection
    CZ Collection ID: 61820310460000041
    However, the existing collection, with 301 portfolios, appears to cover only series 1 and 2. Can new collections please be added to cover the newspapers from series 3-6 (approximately 650 additional titles)?

    URL for overall site: https://www.cnbksy.com/

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  2. Chinese Periodical Full-Text Database (1911-1949) series 13 and 14

    The CZ already includes collections for series 1-12 of the Chinese Periodical Full-Text Database (1911-1949) from Shanghai Library. Can series 13 and 14 please be added?
    URL for the overall site: https://www.cnbksy.com/

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  3. Add ArcticToday content to CDI to make it searchable in Primo

    Arctic Today is an online media outlet which covers geopolitics, environment, defense, government, travel, research and more in the USA, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Greenland. Given the region's increasing importance in international matters, we wish to have its content searchable with Primo.
    The link to the website: arctictoday.com

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  4. Teachingbooks need contents update

    Hi,

    We have subscribed to Teachingbooks and obtained MARC records from them to create a collection when we set it up years ago. Recently, they told us that to get updates, individual libraries have to set up API to connect to their catalogs using software such as TLC’s LS2, Apollo’s Biblionix, etc.

    Alma Community Zone has offered several Teachingbooks versions as databases. It would be beneficial to all Alma libraries if Ex Libris's Content Team contacts them and sets up API with them, so the databases can become collections with updates, than individual libraries setting up API on their own.…

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

    Hello,

    We will reach out to TeachingBooks and request metadata for their collections.

    Please note that TeachingBooks currently does not share metadata with us, so establishing a new metadata feed may take longer than it would with providers that already supply regular updates.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  5. 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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  6. Royal Society Journals Read and Publish 2026-2028

    Please can Royal Society Journals Read and Publish 2026-2028 be added -

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  7. 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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  8. Oxford Scholarship Online Archaeology 2020 and 2021

    Older yearly collections prior to 2022 are missing for this subject area. can these be added to Alma? We see the following are missing:
    Backlist 2020
    2021

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  9. Add portfolios for East View Global Census Archive

    Please consider adding portfolios for the East View Global Census Archive (Collection ID: 615300000000001180). Contents contain official data and publications issued by national census authorities from the early 19th century to the present: https://gca.eastview.com/ The latest title list is attached. Thank you!

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  10. Add Casalini's Franco Angeli ebook collections

    Please consider adding Casalini's Franco Angeli ebook collections to Alma CZ: https://info.torrossa.com/en/collections They are listed under Italian Publishing > Franco Angeli > E-books Collections. This public listing only includes up to archives from 2023 but the 2024-2026 collections are also available.

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  11. Add remaining HeinOnline U.S. State collections

    For the HeinOnline state collections there is currently Florida, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Vermont, Illinois, and Ohio. Can the remaining states be added? We are particularly looking for the following.

    U.S. State - Maine - Attorney General Opinions
    U.S. State - Maine - Political & Legal History
    U.S. State - Maine - Session Laws
    U.S. State - Maine - State Constitutions
    U.S. State - Maine - State Reports
    U.S. State - Maine - State Statutes

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  12. Oxford University Press Law Trove 2026 Collection in 360 KB

    Please can we have Oxford University Press Law Trove 2026 Collection in 360 KB. The new collection was released in September and teaching starts soon so we need to be directing users to the correct content.

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  13. l.burns@hw.ac.uk

    Association for Computing and Machinery 2026-2028 Open Journals

    This is urgently required to be added to the Community Zone to enable activation.
    I have put a request in for this previously but it still isn't showing.
    This has now become time sensitive as the yearly fund will close shortly.
    Can this please be added ASAP.
    Thank you
    Lynn Burns

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  14. Update Films on Demand records in the CDI

    Some of our students have found records for discontinued films from Films on Demand in the CDI, such as: https://unr.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UNR_INST/1tif6pq/cdi_globaltitleindex_catalog_227946506

    Please can the Films on Demand collection be updated to remove discontinued titles?

    CDI Collection ID (DB ID): W10

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  15. ADD Eastview KB Collection for Book Cache for China Digital Library

    Please add a KB collection (with enriched MARC records) for Eastview's Book Cache for China Digital Library. It contains 23,000 titles.

    Thank you!

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  16. Please add De Gruyter databases to the CZ as database collections

    Many De Gruyter databases exist in the Community Zone only as portfolios in the collection "De Gruyter Databases". Please add databases as database type electronic collections to CZ. Databases as portfolios appear as books in Primo which less than desirable.

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  17. Either exclude front matter journal content or create new resource type for front matter

    In CDI: there are records for the front matter (e.g. title page or copyright page) of some journal issues. And they appear with the "article" resource type, which is very misleading for our patrons. ExLibris Support says there is no available resource type for front matter, so they just get presented as articles.

    My idea is for ExLibris to either filter out the front matter content from CDI (my preference) or create a different resource type for them.

    Examples:
    https://umbrella.lib.umb.edu/permalink/01MA_UMB/1dsa88t/cdi_crossref_primary_10_1016_S1094_9194_17_30213_X
    https://umbrella.lib.umb.edu/permalink/01MA_UMB/1dsa88t/cdi_crossref_primary_10_1016_S1094_9194_15_00050_X

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  18. CABI Global Health Archive

    Please add the CABI Global Health Archive to the CDI. It is an archive of abstract records:

    https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/action/doSearch?text1=*%3A*&field1=AllField&logicalOpe1=AND&text2=&field2=AllField&SeriesKey=&Ppub=&ConceptID=500090&All+content=on=

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  19. Add Edinburgh University Press Journal Subject Collections to KBs

    Please add the following Edinburgh University Press Journal Subject Collections to the KBs:

    History
    Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
    Law
    Literary Studies
    Philosophy
    Scottish Studies

    Thanks.

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  20. 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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