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  1. EAI Educational Streaming Site

    Please add the collection/database: EAI Educational Streaming Site from Electronic Arts Intermix to Alma.
    https://eai.org/education

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  2. tgni@dtu.dk

    Oersi
    https://oersi.org/
    OERSI, the Open Educational Resources Search Index, is a search engine for open educational resources in higher education, provided jointly by the University Library Center of North Rhine-Westphalia (hbz) and the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library since 2020.

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  3. Kanopy All Titles Collections

    Please add regional all titles collections for Kanopy which contain ALL titles accessible on the Kanopy platform regardless of purchase model.

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  4. ADD to CZ - RISE (RILM Index to Scores and Collected Editions)

    Please add an Elec Collection for the RISE (RILM Index to Scores and Collected Editions). This is a new product from RILM. https://www.rilm.org/rise/

    What is RISE?
    Building on the legacy of the Index to Printed Music, RISE is a comprehensive digital finding aid for locating musical works published within collections, sets, and series. It indexes individual pieces found in complete editions of composers’ works, anthologies of music, born-digital editions, and scholarly collections. Each record includes detailed descriptions: performing forces/instrumentation, language, genre, type of score, sources, and publication information. With more than 590,000 entries, RISE expands every year to include new…

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  5. Ebookplus/Onleihe

    Hello,
    we would like to integrate the ebookplus/onleihe.

    https://ebookplus.onleihe.com/
    Contact Person: Sandra Berger / sandra.berger@ag.ch

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  6. Add Zhejiang University Journal Resource Repository to the Alma Community Zone/SFXKB and 360KB

    AcadeMax is a journal publishing platform for the discovery of academic content published by Zhejiang University Press (ZJUP) and its publishing partners, currently more than 80 journals are now available. I wish Ex Libris would add AcadMax Resource Repository(https://www.academax.com) to the Alma Community Zone/SFXKB and 360KB.

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  7. Add University of Toronto Press eBook collection

    Hello, can you please work with the University of Toronto Press to add an eBook collection for the Press? There is an existing collection for "University of Toronto Press" (Collection ID: 611000000000001593), but it only contains journals. There are over 7,000 ebooks available on the platform, but I could not locate any titles in the CZ that direct to the platform.

    Thanks,

    Kevin

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  8. Add Educ'Arte Video

    Hello,

    could you add Educ'Arte Video as Campus Arte (https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-content/suggestions/48797672-add-arte-video-campus) ?

    Many of the titles are similar to the Campus Arte collection, but some titles are only available to school audiences.

    https://supporteducarte.zendesk.com/hc/fr/requests/new
    https://educ.arte.tv/

    Kind regards,
    Mireille Pochon

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

    Hello,

    As this is a new provider, we are still working on onboarding their content to the Knowledgebases and CDI.

    We will add this collection to the list we are asking from them, and it would be helpful if you could also mention to the provider that you are interested in adding their metadata to Ex Libris products.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  9. OpenAlex

    OpenAlex is one of the largest OA databases available, and it would be valuable to have OpenAlex added.

    https://openalex.org/

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  10. Please add the OA eBooks from INC Publications (Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences)

    Most of the eBooks from INC Publications (Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) are published under the Creative Commons as Open Access eBooks. There are much interesting titles which would be fine to find in the Community Zone.

    Would you be so kind to find a way with the provider and add these eBooks to the CZ?
    INC Publications: https://networkcultures.org/publications/
    Contact: https://networkcultures.org/contact/

    Thanks a lot.

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  11. ESV Open

    Please check with the provider 'Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co.', if a new collection 'ESV Open' can be added to the Community zone for all Open Access titles from Erich Schmidt Verlag.

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  12. ASM Digital Library Conference Proceedings

    Hello,

    We recently subscribed to the ASM Digital Library's All Access model. There is an Alma database available for this collection (ID: 61585093310000041), but there doesn't appear to be any content included. There are no portfolios attached, and the DBID yields zero results in the CDI.

    Would it be possible to update this collection to include CDI content? Alternatively, it would be helpful to have a collection available that includes the ASM conference proceedings:

    Heat Treating Conference and Exposition: https://dl.asminternational.org/heat-treating/
    International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis: https://dl.asminternational.org/ISTFA
    Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies Conference: https://dl.asminternational.org/shape-memory
    International Thermal Spray Conference: https://dl.asminternational.org/itsc/

    …

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

    Hello,

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

    We will also review if we can create a collection for their proceedings.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager


  13. Tribal Business News

    Tribal Business News is a digital publication delivering in-depth stories, analysis and business intelligence on all aspects of Native business and economic development activities. Adding it would support diversity by increasing access to an indigenous-led publication and to indigenous voices. A contact would be Danielle Cramer, dcramer@indiancountrymedia.com https://tribalbusinessnews.com/

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  14. BiblicalStudies.org.uk

    Please consider adding https://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/

    This site focuses on digitising and uploading in co-operation with authors and publishers, rare and out-of-print theology books and articles.

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  15. Add Pressbooks Directory records to the CKB as a portfolio collection

    Previously the Pressbooks Directory was added to the CDI: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-content/suggestions/42757319-ners-2021-pressbooks-directory

    That idea includes many community comments around a desire for a CKB collection instead, with significant benefits to this, such as adding metadata for discovery and to support OER initiatives by the library.

    There is good news starting in August, as Pressbooks has added an OPDS feed to their environment:
    https://pressbooks.directory/opds
    August 2025 update: https://youtu.be/45GPrE-l8Hg?si=8gPkGAKcdwueXZqd&t=718

    It would be great if Ex Libris could support Alma/Primo libraries globally to add these records as a portfolio based title level collection to the Alma Community Zone, as an Ex Libris managed collection.

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  16. Cappelen Damm Open Access ebooks

    We request the creation of a separate e-collection in Alma CZ for open access ebooks from Cappelen Damm Forskning. This is the research publishing division of Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

    https://cdforskning.no/cdf/catalog/newReleases
    Via the link above, you can find their academic open access book releases. Many of these books are published in Norwegian, a language we naturally want to promote for our students and researchers.

    Please note that Cappelen Damm Forskning is already a content provider in Alma CZ. The records for their OA ebooks are available through the OAPEN (613450000000000043) and DOAB (613680000000000027) e-collections. Since these records already exist in CZ…

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  17. Rich Data Services (Statistics Canada)

    Please add a collection for Rich Data Services (Statistics Canada).

    Description: Rich Data Services (RDS) is Statistics Canada’s analytical platform for Public Use Microdata files (PUMFs) and their metadata. The RDS Explorer and Tabulation Engine's user-friendly interfaces allow users to browse, interact, and download data and metadata for online or offline analysis. The platform includes the RDS Explorer to browse the data records, create custom extracts by filtering records and selecting variables, and produce personalized open data packages for download, and the Tabulation Engine to o aggregate data across various dimensions to rapidly create analytical tables.

    Access URL: https://rich-data-services.statcan.gc.ca/rds/en/

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  18. 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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  19. Business of Fashion

    Please create a collection for Business of Fashion. Access URL: https://www.businessoffashion.com

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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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