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).
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Add ebook collections under "Brill Book Archive Collection, part 2"
This is a request to add ebook collections under "Brill Book Archive Collection, part 2" to the Alma CZ. The collections are listed bellow:
Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity - Book Archive pre-2000
Biology - Book Archive pre-2000
Classical Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - Book Archive pre-2000
International Law - Book Archive pre-2000
Language and Linguistics - Book Archive pre-2000
Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
Middle East and Islamic Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 …10 votesHello,
We will ask Brill regarding these collections' metadata.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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add KU Language Science Press 2024-2026 to alma
Hello,
I see the older Knowledge Unlatched Language Science Press packages, but not this one to choose: KU Language Science Press 2024-2026. Can you please add this most recent one so we can activate it?
Much appreciated!4 votesHi,
We are looking into it and ask KU for this collection's metadata.
Kind regards
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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Please add LexisNexis Matthew Bender Online to CDI.
Hello,
Please add LexisNexis Matthew Bender Online to CDI.
Thanks,
Dafna and Judith10 votesHello,
We will reach out to LexisNexis for discovery metadata, but please bear in mind that it will probably not be feasible because LexisNexis does not produce this kind of metadata.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add KB Collection for Hirzel Verlag Journals
Please add a KB collection for Hirzel Verlag journals on the Biblioscout platform.
It appears they only publish one journal:
ZfdA Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur
https://biblioscout.net/journal/zfda
Start coverage year is 2005 and ISSN is 0044-2518.There's already a Community Zone collection named "Biblioscout - S. Hirzel Verlag Elibrary" (collection ID 616200000000000030) but Content Support clarified that it's only for ebooks and that a journal portfolio cannot be added to it.
Thanks.
4 votesHello Charlie,
We will reach out to Hirzel Verlag, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
Add OA resources South Asia Open archives and South Asian open access newspapers
Please can the two OA resources be added to the CZ:
South Asia Open archives https://www.jstor.org/site/saoa/
South Asian open access newspapershttps://www.eastview.com/resources/gpa/crl-san/
1 voteHello,
We will reach out to JSTOR and East View, and ask for the metadata for these collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
Add the magazine Misuzu ( みすず ) to the Knowledgebase
Could you please add the following open access magazine.
Title: みすず
Title: Misuzu
Publisher: みすず書房
Provider might be: Misuzu Shobo
URL: https://magazine.msz.co.jp/Thank you!
6 votesAdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) respondedHello,
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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Add Emerald 2023 eBook Collections
Add the 2023 Yearly Ebook Collections as separate 360KB Databases from Emerald listed in the Book collections ZIP files here - https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/how-to/librarians/toolkit/content-cataloguing-and-discovery/kbart-records
Also if these collections could be automated to be added every year that would be even more helpful
3 votesHello,
We are checking with the provider regarding the 2023 annual collections.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add open access Journal of Systematic Theology
Please add this open access title to CDI/360 KB:
Title: Journal of Systematic Theology
URL: https://journalofsystematictheology.com/
Contact: https://journalofsystematictheology.com/contact/Address
Faculty of Theology and Religion,
University of the Free State
Park West 9301
Bloemfontein, South AfricaEmail Us
hvdw@ufs.ac.zaCall Us
+27 72 180 81813 votesAdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) respondedHello,
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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Add Archives Unbound constituent collections to Alma
The Archives Unbound database is link in record. There are more than 200 collections within the database and we own only some of them. We have not enabled CDI for Archives Unbound because there would be too many false positives in Primo search results. As it stands, content in Archives Unbound is not discoverable for our users in Primo.
Can you add the constituent collections as separate databases or as portfolios in the Archives Unbound collection? That way, we would be able to activate them for CDI and our users could discover them in Primo. Note that something similar has…3 votesHello,
It appears we are still missing two collections:
- Archives of the Work Projects Administration and Predecessors, 1933-1943
- Food History: Printed and Manuscript Recipe Books, 1669-1990
We are working with Gale to add these missing databases.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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add EbscoHost Education Source Ultimate to Alma cz
Please add EbscoHost Educaiton Source Ultimate to the Alma cz knowlegebase. Ebsco reports they sent the relevant information to EL on August 7, 2023. thanks.
https://www.ebsco.com/m/ee/Marketing/titleLists/esu-coverage.xls
89 votesHello,
I will check regarding the title list, and we will work on setting up a feed for this collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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k.hart@hull.ac.uk
Could Overton be added to the Knowledge Base:
Overton is the world’s largest searchable policy database. We collect millions of policy documents and link them to the research, people and other policy documents that they quote or reference.
https://app.overton.io3 votesAdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) respondedHello,
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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Please add journal "WILA Arbeitsmarkt" to 360 KB in Summon
Title: WILA Arbeitsmarkt
Provider: Wissenschaftsladen Bonn e.V.
Publisher: Wissenschaftsladen Bonn e.V.
Date(s): 2021 - Present
ISSN: 2700-3701
URL: https://wila-arbeitsmarkt.de/magazin/176008/3 votesAdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) respondedHello,
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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技報アーカイブ (ITE Technical Report Online System)
Please add the collection: 技報アーカイブ (ITE Technical Report Online System) by 映像情報メディア学会 (The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE), Japan).
This online service is for downloading technical reports of research groups and is widely used in libraries, reference rooms, and laboratories.
About: https://www.ite.or.jp/content/tech-rep/giho-archive/
Login: https://www.ite.or.jp/ken/user/index.php?cmd=login29 votesAdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) respondedHello,
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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EAI Educational Streaming Site
Please add the collection/database: EAI Educational Streaming Site from Electronic Arts Intermix to Alma.
https://eai.org/education10 votesAdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) respondedHello,
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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Add collection for the Daily Observer Digital Archive
Please add the following newspaper to the Ex Libris 360 Knowledgebase. It is an open access resource. It's part of the Global Press Archive by provider East View Information Services
Title: Daily Observer Digital Archive
Coverage: 2/23/1981-12/31/2014
URL: https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/doda/newspapers/lodo
Provider: East View Information Services
Code: PRVEVPThank you!
3 votesHello,
We are planning to add this collection by end of April 2024.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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elinpalm@kth.se
Please add the video collection from McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering to the Alma Community Zone. At the moment only the books are available for activation in the Alma Community zone.
Link to the video collection: https://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/search?query=&f%5B0%5D=content_type%3AVideos1 voteHello,
We are experiencing issues with the title list, but we cannot confirm the information with the provider.
If you have a contact person with which we can review the title list issues, it would be very helpful if you could add it as a comment or directly via email
Thanks,
Tamar
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EU Publications
Please consider including the EU publications in the CDI. There are approximately 400,000 text resources published related to the European Union. All texts are open access.
https://op.europa.eu/en/web/general-publications/publications
https://op.europa.eu/en/web/librarians-corner/metadata-services
Contact: OP-REC-EXPORT@publications.europa.eu41 votesAdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) respondedHello,
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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Projectr Edu
Please add Projectr Edu collection(s) to the knowledge bases as well as MARC records for the titles. Projectr Edu is a streaming video platform for libraries from Grasshopper Films. It contains close to 1,000 films. They're adding new titles very frequently so it would need to be updated regularly. Contact info: info@projectr.tv and Ryan Krivoshey ryan@grasshopperfilm.com There may need to be collection variations by geographic region due to rights restrictions.
4 votesAdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) respondedHello,
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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Can you please create a separate platform for ‘ScienceOpen’ to track title by title content available via ScienceOpen?
Hello,
Can you please create a separate platform dedicated for 'ScienceOpen' if convenient as Taylor and Francis have announced that they will not be publishing 'Review of African Political Economy' after completion of Volume 49, Issue 178, 2023 and the journal will be published through Science Open in 2024 instead? Looks like the main URL is https://www.scienceopen.com/
Thanks!
Best,
Sunita Gandhi for University of Kansas Libraries16 votesHello,
We will reach out to the provider and ask for the metadata for this collection.If you have a dedicated contact person you can share, that would be helpful.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
Create CZ collection for Cambridge Histories Online: 2023
I have moved my original submission from the general exchange to the content exchange here.
5 votesThanks Courtney, this is indeed the right place to post these requests.
We are already working on this collection, but there are some technical details that need to be worked out.
I will post in the comments once we make some progress.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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