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• New collections for Discovery (Primo Central and Summon)
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Add Firenze University press open access book collection
Firenze University Press publishes the outcomes of academic research carried out by the University of Florence and by the national scientific community, with the aim at spreading them both at national and international levels.
A certain number of these works are included in the open access catalogue.
All publications are certified by the Editorial Board that coordinates the peer review process.It's possible harvesting data via OAI-PMH.
Info: https://www.fupress.com/openaccess
contact: info@fupress.com
707 votesHello all,
Thank you for reaching out to the provider. We now have a contact person and will be able to begin discussions.
Best,
Rael -
Idunn open access e-books
Idunn open access e-books
We would like to see open access e-books from Universitetsforlaget added as a separate e-collection in Alma CZ. For more details, see this link:
https://www.universitetsforlaget.no/en/boker/apen-tilgangNote that there are two Idunn e-collections in CZ already:
Idunn.no (all Idunn portfolios)
IDUNN Open Acess Journals343 votesHello,
We will review this request to be considered in our ingestion plans.
Thank you for your contribution!
Best,
Rael -
Norwegian OA collection within humanities and social sciences
Unit – The Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research are administering an Open Access collection with journals within the humanities and social sciences. We would like this collection to be included in
Alma's Community Zone.Name of the collection: 'Norske OA humsam-tidsskrift'
268 votesHello all,
The provider has contacted us and we will begin discussions in preparation for ingesting this content.
Thank you,
Rael -
MARCIVE GPO Database
We would love to see MARCIVE's GPO database added to the PCI.
For more details, see:
http://home.marcive.com/gpo243 votesHello,
As part of our plans, we intend to investigate the addition of this content in our products.
Thank you for your contribution!
Best,
Rael -
LibreTexts
We would like to add LibreTexts vast collection of open educational resources (OER) to CDI: https://libretexts.org/
LibreTexts is home to the largest collection of open educational resources online. Adding this resource to CDI would ensure users have access to OER from across a wide variety of disciplines.
184 votesHello,
We will review this request for OER content for ingestion in CDI.
Thank you for your contribution.
Best,
Rael -
Include Content-Select Data in PCI / CDI
Please add Collection for discovery:
Content-Select (preselect media) to enhance german language content (Publishers: Beltz, Kohlhammer, Lambertus, MohrSiebeck)101 votesHello,
We are currently in discussions with Preselect and hope to make progress to ingest their content offerings.
Best,
Rael -
JDreamⅢ for Discovery
JDreamⅢ is a STM bibliographic database widely used in Japanese institutions.
https://jdream3.com/
Adding this to Summon Index is highly desired.101 votesHello,
Thank you for your contribution.
We will reach out to this provider to review ingesting this content in the CDI and Delivery products.Best,
Rael -
Add Ebooks Minnesota collection to Alma CZ and Primo Central
Please add the Ebooks Minnesota collection to both the Alma CZ and the Primo Central Index. This collection is freely accessible to all people located in the state of Minnesota and is therefore used by every Minnesota library (public, K12, higher ed, etc.). The MARC records are available from Minitex: https://mndigital.org/projects/ebooks-minnesota/faq#marc
100 votesHello,
We will assess this request to add the Minnesota collection content to our products.
Thank you for your contribution!
Best,
Rael -
F-Mesh in MARC21
F-Mesh is a bilingual French/English version of the Medical Subject Headings (Mesh).
We are a French speaking Library network using MARC21. We were very happy to hear that Alma now includes F-Mesh as a subject headings vocabulary. However, as it is available only in UNIMARC, we cannot use it. If you are in the same situation, then don’t hesitate to vote for this Idea!99 votes -
PCI / CDI: Please make sure that Open Access archives are really OA
In Primo Central Index / Central Discovery Index, some archives are incorrectly referred to as Open Access.
Please check the availability of documents in Open Access archives with "Link in record". If these archives sometimes also contain blocked documents or only title pages, tables of contents or abstracts, please split these archives into several collections, e.g. Open Access and Restricted Access.
Records which link only to title pages, tables of contents or abstracts should not appear in Open Access collections with "Link in record".
Example:
Open Access LMU (https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de)
Auf "Open Access LMU" finden Sie 64725 verzeichnete Publikationen…98 votes -
Open Textbook Catalog: Please use direct feed of MARC records from https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/discovery
In the CZ there is an existing collection (613790000000001601) for the Open Textbook Catalog.
Compared to the MARC records available at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/discovery the CZ collection has fewer titles (651 vs 766 as of 07/13/2020).
Also the CZ bibliographic records are extremely brief and usually have nothing more than a title in the 245 field. The bib records from open.umn.edu are fuller with author, title, publisher, content and summary notes and subject headings.
This request is to ask Exlibris to use the publicly available MARC bib records from the open.umn.edu website to enhance the existing CZ collection.
Thank you.
-Marcus
97 votesHello,
Thank you for raising this request.
We will check if a signed agreement is required here in order to start the analysis and then will prioritize for future acquisition.Best,
Rael -
Austlit - Australian Literature Resource
Add Austlit to Primo Central Index.
A premier resource for research on Australian literature. A searchable, scholarly source of authoritative biographical, bibliographic, critical, and production information about Australian writers and writing. Includes full text of 200 works of Australian fiction and poetry, selections of children's literature, anthology of criticism, critical articles, review and surveys, and 300 items of early science fiction.https://www.austlit.edu.au/
Info on full text: https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/5961938
Publisher: AustLit
Contact: info-austlit@austlit.edu.au
NERS Request ID: 350697 votes -
Add Learning Express to Discovery, KB and Alma Community Zone
There is currently no discovery for Learning Express. This database is used by all libraries in Texas and should be added to the Community Zone and PCI for indexing and discovery.
95 votesHello,
This request has been moved to the Content Forum for analysis.
We will review this request for inclusion in our roadmap.Thank you for your contribution.
Best,
Rael -
94 votes
Hello,
We are currently in discussions with GPO to progress this request.
We will provide further details as soon as available.Best,
Rael -
Editions ENI
Editions ENI is a publisher of ebooks in the IT field, and they already accepted to share their metadata with ExLibris.
This collection is part of the French consortium Couperin.
92 votesHello,
This request is currently under review for inclusion in the Ex Libris products.
Thank you for your contribution.
Best,
Rael -
Add LibreTexts ebooks and course material to Alma CZ
We would like to add LibreTexts vast collection of open educational resources (OER), including ebooks and course materials bibliographic records added to the Alma CZ: https://libretexts.org/ Then, libraries could add LibreTexts ebooks and course materials to course reserve lists in Alma and Primo.
LibreTexts is home to the largest collection of open educational resources online. Adding LibreTexts ebooks and course materials to the Alma CZ would ensure users have access to OER from across a wide variety of disciplines.
Thanks,
Ryan Edwards
West Los Angeles College Library
edwardre@wlac.edu89 votesHello,
We will investigate adding this content alongside our inquiry to ingest this content in our Discovery products.
Thank you for your contribution!
Best,
Rael -
Ingebook
This e-collection is not available in the CZ. Could this full text resource be added to CKB?
Target/Collection: Ingebook
Provider: Ingebook
URL: www.ingebook.com
Content: a multidisciplinary platform of academic books in Spanish
This collection already exists in the SerialSolutions knowledgebase with the following information:
Code: .QW
Provider: IngebookThank you and kind regards
85 votes -
Springer Nature Open Access Community Zone Electronic Collection
This is a request to add a single free/open access collection for all Springer Nature free/open access journals. Currently there are 4 community zone collections in Alma with many overlaps:
SpringerOpen Free - (CKB)613170000000000044
BioMed Central open Access - (CKB)611000000000000500
Bacon Springer Nature Global Open Access - (CKB)613780000000000900
Springer Nature Oa Journals - (CKB)614910000000000075We’d like the addition of one single consolidated collection because having the above 4 collections is unnecessarily confusing for students and staff as they currently encounter so many electronic collections for the same journal/article even when different community zone electronic collection links in Primo end up…
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Add Urbadoc database to Primo Central index
Urbadoc bibliographic database indexes european architectural journals and can enrich PCI with unique references.
It would be very useful to have this database searchable in Primo Central Index.
Urbadoc has an OAI-PMH data provider. More info at: http://www.cnba.it/2017/09/28/novita-urbadoc/
Urbadoc URL: http://www.urbadoc.com76 votes -
Missing target "TECTUM_ELIBRARY"
Dear support
Referring to the Salesforce Case 593244 there is a need for a new target for Ebooks in the Tectum E-library.
Therefor I kindly ask you to create a target TECTUM_ELIBRARY
The URL to the collection is the following: http://www.tectum-elibrary.de/
Thank you and kind regards
Marianne Cathomen
Zentralbibliothek Zürich76 votes
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