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.
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- Other - for non provider specific ideas
95 results found
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Add Datasets from Biodiversity Heritage Library to CDI
Biodiversity Heritage Library now offers freely accessible data sets - please see recent announcement here: https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2024/11/bhl-datasets-now-openly-accessible-on-aws-cloud.html
Could these be added to the CDI if they are not already there?
The DBID is 79B. Not sure if they should be a separate CDI collection or added to the existing one?
Thanks.
1 voteHello,
We will reach out to BHL, and ask for the metadata for the datasets.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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bloomsbury open front list collections
We are supporting 3 Bloomsbury open collections via Lyrasis. I see one is in Alma but the other two are not. Can these please be added?
Bloomsbury Open: Gender and Sexuality Frontlist
Bloomsbury Open: Environment and Climate Change FrontlistBloomsbury Open: African Studies and International Development Frontlist (this one is in the CZ, thank you!)
1 voteHello,
We will reach out to Bloomsbury, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add open access e-book from Harrassowitz Verlag, Early South-South Links in the History of World Christianity (16th – Early 19th Century)
Please add this open access title to 360 KB etc.
https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_7502.ahtml
Early South-South Links in the History of World Christianity (16th – Early 19th Century)
Edited by Klaus Koschorke, Ciprian Burlăcioiu and Philipp Kuster
editor(s): Koschorke, Klaus / Burlăcioiu, Ciprian / Kuster, Philipp
series:
Studies in the History of Christianity in the Non-Western World
volume: 38
pages/dimensions: 272 pages, 24 ill.
language: English4 votesHello,
We will reach out to Harrassowitz, and ask for the metadata for the book collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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My Desk24 (Il Sole 24 Ore)
Il Sole 24 Ore is an Italian news company.
We suggest adding to the KBs the digital platform My Desk 24 https://24oreprofessionale.ilsole24ore.com/prodotti/mydesk24/?refresh_ce=1; the platform contains primary and secondary legal resources and news.
Laura Perillo on behalf of the ITALE Association5 votesHello,
This request has been selected as part of the 2025 CERV votes.
We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for his collection.
If you can share a designated contact person with this provider, that would be much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add a new content Provider in KBC : Biblioondemand
BiblioonDemand provide access to 3 million electronic books in French and foreign languages.
It is also a platform for French libraries to access digital lending .
Contact : conseil@biblioondemand.com30 votesHello,
We will reach out to Biblioondemand, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Please add Arthistoricum.net
Please add Arthistoricum.net with portfolios to the ckb.
https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalogThank you and kind regards
30 votesHello,
We will contact this provider to request the metadata for both collections.
It would be helpful if you could reach out to them as well, and express your interest, as they were unable to provide us with title lists in the past.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add a Can-Core Academic Video collection
Can you please investigate adding Can-Core Academic Video to the CZ.
Can-Core includes thousands of current and relevant Canadian videos. This streaming platform features quality programming from many of Canada's top filmmakers. Includes an Indigenous content search.
4 votesHello,
We will reach out to McIntyre Media, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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EM Premium (Elsevier)
Please add EM Premium to the Knowledge Bases (KBs - Alma CZ, SFX, 360) and Discovery services (CDI - Central Discovery Index).
The Couperin consortium already has its collection : "Bacon Elsevier Couperin Empremium" (615300000000001213)About: https://www.elsevier.com/fr-fr/promotions/em-premium
Access URL: http://www.em-premium.com/
Title List URL: https://www.em-premium.com/em/pdf/20190215_Liste_titres_EM_PREMIUM.pdf
Contact: https://fr.service.elsevier.com/app/contact/supporthub/empremium/6 votesHello,
We will reach out to Elsevier, and ask for the metadata of this collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add SciFinder-n collection
SciFinder-n is a specialized resource for chemistry and chemical engineering, providing access to a collection of substances, reactions and scientific literature curated by expert scientists.
URL: https://scifinder-n.cas.org
Contact: agonzalez@acs-i.org1 voteHello,
This request has been selected as part of the 2025 CERV votes.
We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for his collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Automated holdings management for VLeBooks
Could we please enable automated holdings management for:
Database name: VLeBooks
Database code: 38.
Provider:Askews and Holts Library Services Ltd
Default URL: http://www.vlebooks.com/I have had difficulty activating e-book titles for this provider in the 360 KB, due to metadata inconsistencies.
ProQuset and Ex Libris Support suggested that the content team and developers are looking for opportunities to extend the support for the "Automated Holdings Updates" process that is now set up for PQ Ebook Central.
Since there are now similar processes available for Taylor & Francis books and Springer Nature content, would it be possible to enable this process…
4 votesHello,
VLeBooks is on our list for adding as an autoholdings collection in the next year.
I will update this idea as we reach progress.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add Arte Video Campus
Arte Video Campus
Arte Campus is ARTE's online educational resource for higher education and adult training.
The corpus comprises around 2,000 videos (as of January 2024), available and transcribed in 5 languages, in the form of feature-length documentaries, documentary magazines, short fiction films, and recordings of plays, ballets and operas. Fields represented include the arts, literature, languages, social sciences, economics and politics, technology and health.Bibliographic records for the corpus can be obtained from the SUDOC. A systematic reporting campaign exists in the French network
9 votesHello,
We will reach out to Arte, and ask for their metadata.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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KU Focus Collection: Global Warming and Responses 2025-2027
Dear ExLibris Support,
We just pledged to these collections. May we request to add these to ALMA KB? We wanted to put it out there.
Thank you,
Mariyam3 votesHello,
We will reach out to KU and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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KU Select 2025-2027 SDG Full Collection
Dear ExLibris Support,
We just pledged to these collections. May we request to add these to ALMA KB? We wanted to put it out there.
Thank you,
Mariyam9 votesHello,
We will reach out to KU and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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5 votes
Hello,
We are checking with Gale about the metadata of these collections.
Once I have a timeline, I will update the idea.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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EIU Viewpoint - Add content to CDI
There is an EIU Viewpoint database in Alma. Can you ask EIU for metadata to add reports, forecasts, etc. to CDI? Or add portfolios to the collection?
4 votesHello,
We will check with EIU regarding metadata for CDI or to add portfolios for a full text collection.
For CDI metadata we may need to setup an agreement, which can take time. And for a full text collection the records may not have enough metadata to be properly presented in the Knowledgebases.
I will update the idea once I have some information to share.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Target/Collection: ASTM journals hosted on ASME platform
ASTM (American Society of Testing and Materials) is in the process of moving their journals from their ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library database to another society's (ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)) platform, see https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/astm-journals .
There are portfolios for the ASTM journals set up under the ASME Digital Collection Journals collection (Collection ID: 611000000000000172). I've activated a second version of that collection, given it the 'ASTM Digital Library Journals' public name and activated the ASTM journal portfolios under that collection. Since the ASTM journals are purchased separately, it seems to me that they should be under a separate…
7 votesHello,
We will reach out to ASME for the collection metadata and setup.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add CDI for Gideon content
We already have the e-books activated but would like CDI added for the database content.
https://www.gideononline.com/10 votesHi,
We will reach out to Gideon Publishing and ask for the records related to the eBook collections.
Regards,
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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Add CDI link-in record records for 3 JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments collections
JoVE, an existing provider partner of Ex Libris, has contributed many video collections to the CZ. Most of the collections have CDI link in record records we can activate. The MARCs and portfolios for JoVE are very poor (because these are video collections, so it's not possible to generate good data from the KBART files loaded to produce the portfolios and bibs), so it is very important that there be link in record records we can activate instead. However, for 3 JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments collections, there are portfolios and bibs but no link in record records. Could Ex Libris…
1 voteHello,
We will reach out to Jove and ask for the metadata for these encyclopedias for CDI.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add Septentrio Academic Publishing to Alma CZ and CDI
Please add a new electronic collection to Alma CKB for Septentrio Academic Publishing and make the content available in CDI. Septentrio publishes approx. 30 OA journals. The content can be found here: https://septentrio.uit.no/. Contact: septentrio[at]ub.uit.no
3 votesHello,
We are working with Septentrio to obtain metadata for CZ and CDI.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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POWER TO THE PEOPLE: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press, Nineteenth to Twenty-first Century (Gale Primary Sources)
Hello, can you please add this Gale collection?
Collection is described here: https://www.gale.com/c/power-to-the-people-counterculture-social-movements-and-the-alternative-press
6 votesHello,
We will reach out to Gale, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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