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).
- Check if your idea has already been posted and vote for it before posting a new idea.
- Choose the right category: "New Provider" for content from a provider that has no available content in the KBs or CDI, or "Existing Provider" for content from a provider that already has content available in the KBs or CDI.
- Add a direct link to the provider/resource you suggest, and a contact person if possible.
- For enrichment requests add the relevant collection ID(s).
- Make sure you mention any specific added value your idea has to the community such as language or supporting diversity.
- Did you find errors in an existing collection? please open a case.
- A new year has begun but no corresponding annual collection? post an idea in Idea Exchange, make sure to mention if it is an existing provider.
- Existing Provider - if your idea is for a new collection from a provider that already has content available in the KBs and CDI or enriching records for an existing collection, use this category. No voting is necessary, ideas for existing providers will be handled regardless of voting.
- New Providers - if your idea is for content from a provider that does not have any content available in the KBs and CDI, choose this category.
- Other - for non provider specific ideas
254 results found
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Add database for Skillsoft Percipio french titles
Ex Libris recently added two new databases (AABQT & ANMXM) with English titles available in Skillsoft's Percipio based on content lists that we provided (original case 06845269). This was very helpful to us! We've also procured French titles in Percipio; could we please add these as another database so that our users can search them in Summon along with our other Percipio titles? I've attached the list of titles with permalinks.
6 votesHello,
According to Skillsoft, They do not sell a "French" only collection for Percipio.
They requested that if we create such a collection we will restrict the activation to Environment Canada only which we cannot accommodate.
In this case I would suggest creating a local collection with the title list you have.
Please reach out to me directly if further clarification is needed
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Open Library of Humanities
It seems Open Library of Humanities, https://www.openlibhums.org/, hasn't updated their title list in the 360 KB since 2020 (last full update was in 2015) (DB code ABAGC).
Zygon is now part of Open Library of Humanities and we would like to be able to connect our users to it via Summon/360.
I sent a message to Andy Byers via the OLH contact form, https://www.openlibhums.org/contact/, but also wanted to ask you all to follow up with them.
Thank you!
1 voteHello,
Any issues with updates of existing collections should be addressed via a support ticket in Salesforce.
I apologize for this inconvenience, but opening a case would be the best way to investigate the delayed update to this collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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.
13 votesHello,
Expected update frequency is not part of any standardized metadata from content providers.
Furthermore, update frequency depends on the content being updated on the platform and due to the nature of the publishing industry, it cannot be committed to in advance. Even regularly updated collections may skip an update cycle because there's no new content added to the collection.
As a result, adding expected update frequency for book collections or journal collections can be misleading as it is hypothetical and may create false expectations.
Therefore, I am closing this idea as 'expected update' cannot be accurately added to collections to create a useful and reliable indication.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Please add separate collections for OpenEdition eBooks
Hello,
Please add the following OpenEdition collections:
OpenEdition European Studies
Openedition French Studies Bundle
We only see a large package of eBooks, but not these specific sets in Alma.1 vote -
oxford scholarship
Please add the following collections:
OXFORDSCHOLARSHIPONLINELINGUISTICS2023-2024 (titles from April 23 until March 24)
OXFORDSCHOLARSHIPONLINELINGUISTICS2022-2023 (titles from April 22 until March 23)
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BBC Monitoring indexed into Alma Community Zone
We have the Database entry for BBC Monitoring (ISSN 1350-8229) but could benefit from in-depth indexing of the type of content available to help unearth title level material.
1 voteHello,
Unfortunately, the content provider does not have any feed for the metadata to be indexed in the Central Discovery Index.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Indexing the content directly
Please consider indexing the content for the title, American Journal of Play. As stated by ex libris in my recent case, "we do not have any providers that can send us records for the 2008 -2011 content of American journal of play." "I checked in CDI and the majority of our records for American journal of play come from ProQuest. ProQuest only has full text and citation coverage starting in 2012. Gale also indexes content from this journal, but they only start indexing content in 2014. With content on EBSCO, we have to rely on alternative coverage, because EBSCO does…
1 voteHello,
We do not have a sustainable source for updating the CDI feed for this title's articles prior to 2012.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Add chapter and contents information to book records
Chapter and contents information is extrememly useful to our users but is often missing from records. We'd like records to be enriched with this information where possible.
21 votesHello,
Some providers cannot send us granular metadata for book chapters and contents.
If you have a specific provider in mind, please post a new idea.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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BELTZ Soziologie 2022_2
Please add (PRESELECTMEDIAGMBH) BELTZ Soziologie 20222 to the SFX KB.
Kind regards,
Melanie Hoyer3 votesHello,
In the absence of more details for this request, I am closing this idea.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add Suhrkamp Collections
Please add the following collection to the SFX KB:
Suhrkamp Philosophie 01/2022-06/2022
Suhrkamp Philosophie 07/2022-12/2022Thank you
3 votesHello,
As the provider is not responding, we will not be able to add this collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Add title "La nature de l'injustice" to database CZZ
Can you please add the following title to the database "eBooks on EBSCOhost" (CZZ)? We recently purchased it and can't currently activate it in Summon.
La nature de l'injustice: Racisme et injustices environnementales
Publisher: Écosociété, Diffusion Dimedia, 2023
Author: Sabaa Khan; Catherine Hallmich
eISBN: 97828971987703 votesHello,
For updating existing collections, please open a support ticket through SalesForce.
There is a different flow, as Idea Exchange is only for new collections.
Thanks for your cooperation.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Update "Math-Net.Ru" collection
Please update the "Math-Net.Ru" collection.
https://www.mathnet.ru/ej.phtml?option_lang=engI'm especially interested in the journals:
Izvestiya: Mathematics
Sbornik: Mathematics
Russian Mathematical Surveys1 voteHi Naavah,
Updating existing collections need to go through opening a support case so unfortunately I cannot update the collection without going through SalesForce.
Can you please open a support case for this?
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add CDI coverage or portfolios for Qwest TV collection
There is a database collection for Qwest TV, Collection ID: 615300000000000195, but the collection has no CDI coverage or portfolios. Adding CDI coverage or portfolios or both would be useful and make the content discoverable in Primo.
2 votesHello,
The Provider is unable to send us metadata for this collection, so we will not be able to create it.
Kind regards,
Tamar -
Please add Archaeopress journal bundle collection to ALMA community zone
Ash-sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East - Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies
ISSN 2513-8529; e-ISSN 2514-1732
https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/ash-sharqAramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies (AJNES)
ISSN 1829-1376
https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/aramazdKOINON: The International Journal of Classical Numismatic Studies
ISSN 2631-5874
https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/koinonProceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies (PSAS)
ISSN 0308-8421
https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/PSASJournal of Greek Archaeology
ISSN 2059-4682
https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/JGA6 votesHello,
For updating existing collections with missing titles, please open a support case as it requires a different process of confirming an existing feed with the provider.
For ASME digital collection journals, we are waiting for the provider to send us an updated title list.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Scifinder Discovery Platform
Please add the "Scifinder Discovery Platform" to Alma as a collection with the following 3 portfolios:
· CAS SciFinderⁿ
· CAS Formulus
· CAS Analytical MethodsSome of the portfolios exist also as standalone databases in Alma; this should be maintained as it is.
43 votesHello,
The provider is not interested in maintaining a feed for a collection with three portfolios as requested.
Therefore I am closing this idea as we will not be able to support it without the providers' feed.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Add EBSCOhost Education Source Ultimate to Summon CDI
Please add EBSCOhost Education Source Ultimate to Summon CDI.
https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/education-source-ultimate
4 votesHello,
Ebsco does not send us metadata for their collections that we can use in CDI.
We have alternative coverage for many of their collections, please review this knowledge article for more details.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor Content Product Manager
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Newsbank 'America's News' - article level / CDI
Rather than provide a webhook for 'America's News,' I am hoping ExL can enable article level linking in the way it has done for EBSCOhost Newspaper Source Plus. I assume this is done via CDI.
3 votesHello,
Unfortunately, this is not something we can develop at this time due to the massive amount of content that is required to index from Newsbank.
For Ebsco we have coverage from alternative sources, it is not a webhook solution.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Include all content type on CIAO platform
There is content on the CIAO platform besides journals and books. Content includes videos, research papers, policy briefs, working papers, country data and maps, etc. These do not appear to have individual portfolios. Could portfolios be created for these items to aid discovery?
1 voteHello,
Unfortunately, CIAO cannot provide a title list for these material types.
They will let us know once they can send us their metadata.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Add chinese classification field in the electronic reousrces bib
Now the classification in electronic reousrces bib is Dewey or LC，It cannot satisify the need of chinese library users of ALMA,espicially when we need to provide statistics of subject.The need is frequently and urgent in chinese libraries.We hope ALMA can collabrate to other organises to impove the function,which might help add the users of ALMA.
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Cambridge World History of Food - Include in Bloomsbury Food Library
The Cambridge World History of Food should be included in Bloomsbury Food Library collection but it is not, it is not discoverable in Primo: https://www.bloomsburyfoodlibrary.com/encyclopedia?docid=b-9781474208710
1 voteHello,
Single title requests within existing collections should be addressed by cases for better tracking and quicker response.
I am closing this idea as I cannot handle this through the process of new collections request, please open a case for this.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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