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  1. CZ: Keep contributions from Community to bibliographic records, where possible

    The Community Zone is open for contributions by editing bibliographic records in the Community. However, as soon as Ex Libris uploads the same bibliographic records again from the provider, the contributions by the community are overwritten, if the provider sends an identical field. In some cases this is OK (if the providers version is better) in others it is not (when the contributed field was more complete).
    I propose therefore, that the rules for importing updated bibliographic records into the Community Zone by Ex Libris are changed in the following points:
    • If not present, 040 field is added with…

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  2. Enrich Project Gutenberg MARC Records with Provider Metadata

    Project Gutenberg now has MARC records available. Could their CZ records be enriched with this provider data?

    https://librarytechnology.org/pr/31162

    24 votes
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    1 comment  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Planned  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We are working on enriching Project Gutenberg with MARC records, and will complete this project by end of May 2025.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  3. policy citation index

    Please add an ecollection for WOS - Policy Citation Index

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  4. Scival from Elsevier

    Please add a database record for SciVal from Elsevier to the Alma CZ.

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  5. UMPEBC University Of Michigan Press eBooks 2025

    Can UMPEBC University Of Michigan Press eBooks 2025 please be added to Alma?

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  6. Policy Commons

    Please ingest as a CDI "link in record" database the various Policy Commons modules on this page: https://policycommons.net/modules/

    We are particularly interested in "Global Think Tanks", but all should be added.

    Also note that while I expect this would be a new provider, there is already an idea with a status of "planned" for Africa Commons, from the same provider, Coherent Digital.

    Thank you!

    Matthew

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    Planned  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The Policy Commons collection from Coherent Digital will be added to CDI by end of March 2025.

    I will confirm a timeline about the Global Think Tanks.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  7. New Database Request: Encyclopédie méthodique - Panckoucke (Panckoucke Encyclopedia)

    Please add a new database to the client center for Encyclopédie méthodique - Panckoucke (Panckoucke Encyclopedia) from Classiques Garnier Numérique.

    The starting URL is https://num.classiques-garnier.com/panckoucke
    Thank you.

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  8. Add Ebsco Petroleum Source

    Add Ebsco Petroleum Source

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  9. FutureBooks online library

    We would like to ask you to add the FutureBooks collection to Alma CZ.
    This digital library contains about 200 books, especially from the education domain. Most of them are interactive media, which is also a specialization of this platform. The library is freely available to any internet user, and we think it might be useful for any institution interested in education.

    Link to the resource: https://pedf.cuni.futurebooks.cz/
    Contact person: tomas.stejskal@futurebooks.cz; michal.melichar@futurebooks.cz
    Number of collections from the provider: 1
    Language: Most books are in Czech, but several are in English, French, Russian, or German.

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  10. Add CCH iKnowConnect content to Alma Community Zone

    There is currently an out of date collection for the previous version of this platform - CCH IntelliConnect.
    We would like to see the new platform added with up to date collection information so we can make the content discoverable to our users.

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    6 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Planned  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The following databases' URLs will be updated with the appropriate link by end of February 2025.

    If the collection you were asking about is not in this list, please add the collection name and collection ID you are referring to.

    1. CCH Antitrust Law An Analysis of Antitrust Principles and Their Applications
    2. CCH Bank Compliance Guide
    3. CCH Business and Finance Internet Research Network
    4. CCH Federal Banking Law Reporter
    5. CCH Federal Securities Law Reporter
    6. CCH Health And Human Resources Research Network
    7. CCH Intelliconnect
    8. CCH International Accounting Standards
    9. CCH Internet Research Network
    10. CCH IP Network
    11. CCH Tax Research Network

    Kind regards,

    Tamar


  11. The 2024 Bloomsbury and Faber Screenplays and Criticism Annual Update

    From Bloomsbury we are told to ask ExLibris for the file to be uploaded to Alma Community Zone. We'd like it to be activated both in Alma Knowledge Base and in Primo CDI. See also case no. 06925486. Please let me know if there is any other way to proceed with updating this collection.
    Contact at Bloomsbury: Gracjana Madejek Gracjana.Madejek@bloomsbury.com

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  12. Add Thoth Open Access collection as a Community Zone

    This is a request to add the collection of Diamond OA publications in Thoth (http://www.thoth.pub/) as a Community Zone collection.

    Thoth contains a steadily growing collection of OA publications from scholar-led publishers such as punctum books, Open Book Publishers, meson press, mediastudies.press, and African Minds, and we have been working with UC Santa Barbara Library to make it more accessible to libraries worldwide.

    Creating a dedicated Community Zone would substantially increase access to these OA publishers.

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  13. Add WIT Press eLibrary

    Hello,

    Please consider contacting WIT Press in order to add the WIT Press eLibrary to the Alma CZ and CDI for indexing.

    The WIT Press eLibrary is a fully open access collection of scholarly content on sustainable engineering and environmental engineering.

    https://www.witpress.com/elibrary

    It contains journals and transactions that are all registered with CrossRef (meaning that they have DOIs).

    The transactions are monograph series (have both ISSNs and ISBNs).

    Thanks for considering.

    If you do add this collection, please also incorporate the open access MARC notation for the bibliographic records if you add them to the Alma CZ:

    506 0#$fUnrestricted online…

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    Planned  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    I am pleased to inform the the journal and books collections were added to the knowledgebases.

    A legal agreement is being negotiated to add the CDI metadata.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  14. Austlit - Australian Literature Resource

    Add Austlit to Primo Central Index.
    A premier resource for research on Australian literature. A searchable, scholarly source of authoritative biographical, bibliographic, critical, and production information about Australian writers and writing. Includes full text of 200 works of Australian fiction and poetry, selections of children's literature, anthology of criticism, critical articles, review and surveys, and 300 items of early science fiction.

    https://www.austlit.edu.au/
    Info on full text: https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/5961938
    Publisher: AustLit
    Contact: info-austlit@austlit.edu.au
    NERS Request ID: 3506

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    Planned  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    I am excited to announce that we will be adding Austlit to CDI by end of April 2025.

    We appreciate your patience, and we are excited to add this significant resource to CDI.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  15. Please add USGS Publications Warehouse to Primo Central Index/Alma knowledge base

    Please add USGS Publications Warehouse to Primo Central Index and Alma knowledge base. The USGS Publications Warehouse (https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/) is the authoritative index to official, USGS-authored publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Free full-text access to over 80,000 new and historic USGS publications is available, and new documents are added daily as new USGS reports are published and historic reports are digitized and made available online.

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