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. The ideas for new providers will be annually prioritized via the CERV process.
- Other - for non provider specific ideas
361 results found
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Please add artresearch.net
artresearch.net is a free, open-access art historical research database that has both image and text searching for the combined photograph archives of renowned international libraries.
Please consider adding the database to the Alma CZ.
Thank you!
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Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press
Hello,
We would appreciate if you could add The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press to Alma. The collection is currently a University of Arizona collection with much need information regarding Mexican and Mexican American people.
The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s. The collection covers important periods in Mexican-American history, from the Mexican Revolution to the Bracero Program…
4 votesHello,
We will reach out to University of Arizona, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Enrichment of Community Zone bibliographic records for Pressreader
Enrich and update Pressreader with bibliographic records in CZ.
44 votesHello,
We will reach out to Pressreader, and ask for the metadata for their collections.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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New Collection: Nimonik
Please create a new collection for Nimonik. Vendor website: https://nimonik.com/
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Storybox
Could this resource be added to Alma https://storyboxlibrary.com.au/
1 vote -
New source for CDI: The Conversation
The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/) would be a valuable source to add to the CDI and make available in Primo as it provides Academic 'magazine-style' articles, often in multiple languages. There are region/country specific editions of "The Conversation" so this would need to be considered when adding them.
4 votes -
Add ISLaS+ database to Alma
ISLaS+ is a consortial ILS shared by most of Greek universities. In order to benefit from their metadata, it would be a great asset to integrate its database to the external ressources harvested by Alma. This would be especially useful for libraries with Moder Greek collections.
Search interface: https://ilsas-opac.seab.gr/
Project page: https://ilsas.alis.uniwa.gr/66 votesHello,
We will reach out and ask for the metadata for this collection.
If you could share a direct contact person with this project that would be very helpful.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add Dancio database to Alma
Please add the Dancio dance collection to Alma. https://www.dancio.com/
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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 2020.9 votes -
Ebookplus/Onleihe
Hello,
we would like to integrate the ebookplus/onleihe.https://ebookplus.onleihe.com/
Contact Person: Sandra Berger / sandra.berger@ag.ch5 votes -
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.
102 votesHello,
We will reach out to AcadeMax, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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
6 votesHello,
We will reach out to University of Toronto Press, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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OpenAlex
OpenAlex is one of the largest OA databases available, and it would be valuable to have OpenAlex added.
12 votesHello,
This request has been selected as part of the 2026 CERV votes.
We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
If you could share a contact person with OpenAlex, that would be very helpful.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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/…
5 votesHello,
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
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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/
1 vote -
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.
6 votes -
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=718It 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.
18 votesHello,
This request has been selected as part of the 2026 CERV votes.
We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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…
6 votesHello,
We will reach out to this provider, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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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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-policy37 votes
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