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  1. 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 …

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  2. 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!

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  3. Please add LexisNexis Matthew Bender Online to CDI.

    Hello,

    Please add LexisNexis Matthew Bender Online to CDI.

    Thanks,
    Dafna and Judith

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

    Hello,

    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

  4. 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.

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  5. 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/

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  6. 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

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  7. 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…

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

    Hello,

    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

  8. 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

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  9. 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%3AVideos

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

    Hello,

    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

    tamar.ganor@clarivate.com

    Thanks,

    Tamar

  10. 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 Libraries

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

    Hello,
    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

  11. Create CZ collection for Cambridge Histories Online: 2023

    I have moved my original submission from the general exchange to the content exchange here.

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

    Thanks 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

  12. New CZ Collection request: Springer Computer Science eBooks 2008 English/International

    There is a Springer Nature Computer Science (RO) eBooks 2008 English/International but no Springer Computer Science eBooks 2008 English/International, which includes the Reference ebooks. There is also a SpringerLink Books Computer Science without Lecture Notes 2008 but no one collection that has our entitlements.

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  13. Newsbank article level linking in CZ e-collections

    Please explore adding article level linking via the parser used by NewsBank CZ e-collections? Currently they offer only journal level linking.

    For example the linking for

    NewsBank (Newsbank Access World News Research Collection 2021 Edition)

    Type: Selective package
    Services: Full Text (Available)
    Interface name: Newsbank
    Linking Level: Journal

    LOCAL E-COLLECTION ID: 6131937990005877
    GLOBAL E-COLLECTION ID: 615410000000000481
    E-COLLECTION NAME: NEWSBANKACCESSWORLDNEWSRESEARCHCOLLECTION2021_EDITION

    is
    Parser Bulk::JKEY
    Parser parameters url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=

    Can the webhook and other NewsBank related information could assist your colleagues in writing a specific parser for NewsBank e-collections ? More info on webhook facilitated
    article level…

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  14. Break up IBISWorld into sub-collections

    The existing IBISWorld collection (IBISWorld Alma ID 6113915960000041 DBID 6EY) is for the entire platform, but many customers license only a subset of that content. The smaller IBISWorld collections in the CZ are not connected to a CDI DB and they aren't complete (e.g., there's no collection for the Ontario Provincial Reports). Please make more subset collections and CDI DBs for them.

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

    Hello,
    We will reach out to the provider and ask for the metadata for the sub-collections.

    We will also look into mapping them to CDI.
    Thanks,
    Tamar Ganor
    Content Product Manager

  15. Improve the metadata of Dalloz Bibliothèque in CZ and CDI

    • Dalloz Bibliothèque
    • Collection ID : 613680000000000037
    • CDI Collection ID (DB ID): O7M
    • Material type : books (currently : 2576)

    The quality of the metadata for Dalloz Bibliothèque in the CZ and CDI is extremely poor (sometimes only one title). Please, consider enriching the metadata with those coming from the SUDOC (more complete and of better quality). Enrichment could perhaps be based on the PPN (SUDOC identifier) that you have already injected into the CZ records?

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  16. Add new Newsbank (existing provider) database Aeronautics and Space Flight to CDI

    Please add Newsbank/Readex--Aeronautics and Space Flight: Global Origins of Modern Aviation and Rocketry--to CDI.

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  17. De Gruyter imprint collections, new presses 2000-2023

    We purchased the following collections earlier this Spring from De Gruyter and they are not available in Alma yet. Can you please look into loading these into the community zone?

    Berghahn Books 2022
    Berghahn Books 2021-2018
    Berghahn Books 2017-2014
    Berghahn Books 2000-2013
    Berghahn Books 1999-1992
    Bristol Univ Press / Policy Press 2023
    Bristol Univ Press / Policy Press 2022
    Bristol Univ Press / Policy Press 2021
    Bristol Univ Press / Policy Press 2020
    Bristol Univ Press / Policy Press 2019-2017
    Bristol Univ Press / Policy Press 2016-2014
    Bristol Univ Press / Policy Press 2000-2013
    Bristol Univ Press / Policy Press…

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  18. Change Scientific American Collection to One with Portfolio

    Please change the Scientific American collection (6114049470000041 ) to one with a portfolio. This content requires a link resolver so there needs to be electronic portfolio inventory.

    Thanks.
    Charlie

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  19. CDI records request for InteLex Past Masters collection

    Our client University of Guelph has requested the CDI provide record coverage for the InteLex Past Masters CRKN collection (Collection ID: 615410000000002433)

    MARC records for the titles included in InteLex Past Masters website directly: https://www.nlx.com/marc_records/4.

    Please work with Dan Haig at InteLex to acquire data for the CDI to enrich user discovery for this collection.

    Thank you!

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  20. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press eBooks Collection

    Please add the collection of ebooks published by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press.
    eBooks (study books, textbooks, monographs, and Ph.D. dissertations) are written in Lithuanian and English. Some of them are open access. There are currently over 1000 ebooks in total. iPublishCentral platform is used.
    Link to the website: https://ebooks.vilniustech.lt.
    For more detailed information, please contact by e-mail linas.salelionis@library.lt.

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