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  1. Kaunas University of Technology Press eBooks Collection

    Please add the collection of ebooks published by Kaunas University of Technology Press.
    eBooks (study books, textbooks, monographs, research papers, and conference proceedings) 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.ktu.edu.
    For more detailed information, please contact by e-mail linas.salelionis@library.lt.

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  2. Vilnius University Press OA Journal Collection

    Please add the collection of open-access journals published by Vilnius University Press.
    Most of the articles are written in English and Lithuanian. There are currently 46 journals in total. The Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform is used.
    Link to the website: https://www.journals.vu.lt.
    For more detailed information, please contact by e-mail linas.salelionis@library.lt.

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  3. Kaunas University of Technology Press OA Journal Collection

    Please add the collection of open-access journals published by Kaunas University of Technology Press.
    Most of the articles are written in English, and some are in Lithuanian. There are currently 14 journals in total. The Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform is used.
    Link to the website: https://journals.ktu.edu.
    For more detailed information, please contact by e-mail linas.salelionis@library.lt.

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  4. IGI global

    Please consider adding a collection to the 360 KB for the IGI Global EBA for the Carolina Consortium.
    Thank you!

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  5. Add AIATSIS thesauri to the CZ subject authority files

    As a cataloguer, I would like to see the AIATSIS thesauri made available in the Community Zone authority files for 6XX subject fields.

    BENEFITS

    • Make it easier for cataloguers to validate AIATSIS subject headings
    • Enable routine review and updates of AIATSIS subject headings through the Authority Control Task List
    • Enrich Primo searches for end users, using non-preferred terms (especially synonyms for people and language groups)
    • Promote AIATSIS thesauri to Australian libraries

    While specific libraries can import and manage AIATSIS subject headings as local authorities, I think this vocabulary should be made available in the CZ authority records, since it is…

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  6. Add Commons Open Repository Exchange (CORE) from Humanities Commons

    We would like to request that the Commons Open Repository Exchange (CORE) from Humanities Commons be added as a collection in the CZ, with records/portfolios for the individual titles. CORE is "A nonprofit, interdisciplinary, broad-ranging alternative to commercial networks" and includes freely accessible open access works, including articles, monographs, course materials, white papers, conference papers, code, and digital projects. Additional information about CORE is available at https://hcommons.org/core/ with content at https://hcommons.org/deposits/

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  7. Add WIT Press eLibrary

    Hello,

    Please consider contacting WIT Press in order to add the WIT Press eLibrary to the Alma CZ and CDI for indexing.

    The WIT Press eLibrary is a fully open access collection of scholarly content on sustainable engineering and environmental engineering.

    https://www.witpress.com/elibrary

    It contains journals and transactions that are all registered with CrossRef (meaning that they have DOIs).

    The transactions are monograph series (have both ISSNs and ISBNs).

    Thanks for considering.

    If you do add this collection, please also incorporate the open access MARC notation for the bibliographic records if you add them to the Alma CZ:

    506 0#$fUnrestricted online…

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

    Hello,

    This idea has been selected in the NERS voting process to be pursued as a new content provider. 

    We will check with WIT Press eLibrary if they can provide us with metadata for the Knowledgebases and CDI.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  8. add ACM open access backfile

    Can you make this new collection selectable in 360? Lots of new OA content is now available but the current ACM:Digital Library: OA collection only has 4 titles.

    ACM Opens First 50 Years Backfile

    April 7, 2022
    ACM has opened the articles published during the first 50 years of its publishing program. These articles, published between 1951 and the end of 2000, are now open and freely available to view and download via the ACM Digital Library.
    ACM’s first 50 years backfile contains more than 117,500 articles on a wide range of computing topics. In addition to articles published between…

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  9. Digitale SAP Bibliothek / Espresso Tutorials

    Hello,

    please add this collection to the ALMA CZ and SFX CKB.

    The database contains over 250 e-books and learning videos in German and English on various business topics and IT issues related to SAP.
    As SAP is the leading developer of software for handling all business processes of a company such as accounting, controlling, sales, purchasing, production, warehousing, transport and human resources, it is a valueable resource for users and learners.

    See: https://et.training/
    Thank you,
    Bärbel

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

    Hello,

    This idea has been chosen by the new provider NERS voting round for 2024.
    We will reach out to Digitale SAP Bibliothek / Espresso Tutorials and ask for the metadata for this collection.

    If you can provide a direct contact, that would be very helpful.
    Thanks,
    Tamar Ganor
    Content Product Manager

  10. Bookport Digital library

    Bookport is one of the most important sources of Czech e-books (mostly) for libraries across all types and collections.
    The content can be used by municipal, school, university, scientific or national libraries.
    Please add and index this database to Primo Central, SFX KB and Alma CZ. Thanks.

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  11. Indexing Bibliotek.dk

    Please index national database of Denmark, bibliotek.dk.

    Database is already in Intota (Bibliotek.dk (FDS)) and in Alma (Alma Collection ID: 6114022520000041

    DBC recommend us to get the data via DBC OAI repo https://www.dbc.dk/produkter-services/webservices

    DBC OAI Repo
    OAI-service gives access to harvest bibliographic data.
    Documentation: https://github.com/DBCDK/rr-oai/wiki/DBC-OAI-Repo
    The national bibliographic data are freely available and doesn’t need to be authorized. There is a limit of how many records can be harvested at a time, but you can set a script to harvest continuously.

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  12. Add BibliU, the etextbook and monograph provider

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

    Hello,

    The content provider has paused the production of the metadata feed, we will reach out to them again in Q3 of 2024.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  13. INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS- add collection

    Please add a separate collection for the INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS's journals at Alma Community Zone.
    Currently, their portfolios exist under the Project Euclid collection with many other various publishers that are hosted on it.
    This makes it impossible to open an order for the complete package as it is sold by the publisher.
    Titles in the collection:
    Annales de I'lnstitut Henri Poincaré (B) Probabilités et Statistiques (ISSN 0246‐0203)
    The Annals of Applied Probability (ISSN 1050‐5164)
    The Annals of Probability (ISSN 0091‐1798)
    The Annals of Applied Statistics ( ISSN 1932‐6157)
    The Annals of Statistics (ISSN 0090‐5364)
    Bernoulli (ISSN 1350‐7265)
    Brazilian…

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  14. Add collections scholars-e-library / ...

    The collections

    "scholars-e-library / Sprachwissenschaft/Spracherwerb"

    "scholars-e-library / Germanistik 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Germanistik 2020_2"

    "scholars-e-library / Geschichte 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Literaturwissenschaft/Anglistik 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Sprachwissenschaft/Anglistik 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Medien & Kommunikation 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Medien & Kommunikation 2020_2"

    "scholars-e-library / Philosophie 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Politikwissenschaft 2020_2"

    "scholars-e-library / Religion/Theologie - Exegese 2020_2"

    "scholars-e-library / Religion/Theologie - Kirchengeschichte 2020_2"

    "scholars-e-library / Religion/Theologie - Religionswissenschaft 2020_2"

    "scholars-e-library / Romanistik/Hispanistik 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Psychotherapie 2020_2"

    "scholars-e-library / Sonderpädagogik 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Sonderpädagogik 2020_2"

    from provider "UTB Scholars" was purchased by libraries in North Rhine-Westphalia. Please add the ebook collections to the Alma CZ.

    For…

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

    Hello,

    The only two collections that are missing completely are 

    1. scholars-e-library / Sprachwissenschaft/Anglistik 2020_1
    2. scholars-e-library / Religion/Theologie - Religionswissenschaft 2020_2

    Please confirm if others are represented properly in the KBs (instead of 2020 in two parts 1/2 as mentioned in this list, we received annual 2020 collections from the provider with no breakdown).

    We will reach out to the provider to confirm the two missing collections.

    Thanks,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager


  15. Add Overdrive to 360 KB and Summon

    Many academic libraries are using this product. It would be good to have integrated into discovery systems.

    121 votes
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    Under Review  ·  AdminRael Elstein (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello all, 


    While we are still working to reach a legal agreement with OverDrive to enable us to index their content in our CDI, we will be adding the OverDrive Magazine collections to our Knowledgebases. 


    Best, 

    Rael 

  16. Add Edilex - Finnish Content

    Request by Finnish community to add Edilex content:
    Lakikirjasto
    Säädökset
    Oikeuskäyntäntö

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    Under Review  ·  AdminRael Elstein (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We have been attempting to contact this provider for some time.
    In the event that we are unable to establish contact with this provider we will not be able to proceed with ingesting this content.

    Thank you,
    Rael

  17. Add Duodecim - Finnish Content

    Request by Finnish community to add Duodecim content:
    Terveysportti
    Oppiportti

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  18. Add DigiZeitschriften to PCI / CDI

    We would like to see the journal platform DigiZeitschriften added to PCI / CDI.

    For more information, see: https://www.digizeitschriften.de/en/

    In Alma there are already 3 Electronic Collections:
    - DigiZeitschriften Open Access
    - DigiZeitschriften Subscription
    - DigiZeitschriften Journals

    Please keep this subdivision in PCI / CDI.

    Since this source contains many old journals without ISSN, it would probably be better if the links to the full text came directly from DigiZeitschriften (Primo Link section) to avoid problems with the link resolver (Alma ViewIt).

    Thanks in advance!

    48 votes
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  19. UNESDOC Digital Library Open Access Resources

    UNESDOC Digital Library offers approximately 6,600 Open Access resources concerning UNESCO publications. The resources are found at https://unesdoc.unesco.org/home under Collections - Open Access resources. Please index in Primo central.

    Regards,

    Mari Lundevall and Marte B. Deichman-Sørensen

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  20. Add Pidgeon Digital Portfolios and Marc Records to CZ & PCI

    Pidgeon Digital
    https://www.pidgeondigital.com/

    There is a collection record in CZ but we need the portfolio list and Marc records added to both the CZ & PCI

    34 votes
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