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  1. Add Homosaurus to Alma Authority Vocabularies

    We would like to suggest adding Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ+ linked data vocabulary to the authority vocabularies in the resource management configuration. The vocabulary is available at https://homosaurus.org/

    Homosaurus has received a lot of traction in the past few years as alternative to LCSH for describing resources about the LGBTQ+ community. We add the terms at present in a 650 _7 $a heading $2 homoit.

    Adding Homosaurus to the authority vocabularies would help greatly in on-going authority control, rather than managing locally.

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  2. NERS 2021 - Pressbooks Directory

    The Pressbooks Directory (https://pressbooks.directory/) indexes over 2000 open access books created by educational institutions. As many of these are not indexed separately, it would be great if the contents of the directory could be included in the Alma Community Zone and/or the Central Discovery Index.

    NERS 2021 Request ID: 7539

    113 votes
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  3. Add Thoth Open Access collection as a Community Zone

    This is a request to add the collection of Diamond OA publications in Thoth (http://www.thoth.pub/) as a Community Zone collection.

    Thoth contains a steadily growing collection of OA publications from scholar-led publishers such as punctum books, Open Book Publishers, meson press, mediastudies.press, and African Minds, and we have been working with UC Santa Barbara Library to make it more accessible to libraries worldwide.

    Creating a dedicated Community Zone would substantially increase access to these OA publishers.

    92 votes
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  4. 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.

    79 votes
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    Completed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The collection Vilnius University Press Open Access Journals, Collection ID: 616180000000000294 is available for activation in the CZ.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  5. 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.

    70 votes
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  6. EU Publications

    Please consider including the EU publications in the CDI. There are approximately 400,000 text resources published related to the European Union. All texts are open access.

    https://op.europa.eu/en/web/general-publications/publications
    https://op.europa.eu/en/web/librarians-corner/metadata-services
    Contact: OP-REC-EXPORT@publications.europa.eu

    68 votes
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  7. Add Digital Theatre Plus to Central Discovery Index (CDI) for Summon

    Please add Digital Theatre Plus (streaming video) collections to Summon Central Discovery Index.

    67 votes
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  8. Vytautas Magnus University Press OA Journal Collection

    Please add the collection of open-access journals published by Vytautas Magnus University Press.
    The articles are written in English and Lithuanian. There are currently 16 journals in total. The Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform is used.
    Link to the website: https://ejournals.vdu.lt/.
    For more detailed information, please contact by e-mail linas.salelionis@library.lt.

    61 votes
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    Completed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The collection Vytautas Magnus University Press OA journal, Collection ID: 615450000000005604 will be available in the Knowledgebases by end of December 2024.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  9. 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.

    59 votes
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  10. Add Cassyni (https://cassyni.com) which makes academic seminars openly available to CDI

    An academic at Imperial College London has co-founded a platform called Cassyni (https://cassyni.com) which makes academic seminars openly available. It'd be very useful if the platform is added to CDI so that individual seminars regarding many journals from major publishers can be discoverable in Primo. To give you some idea what Cassyni is like I posted some links below.

    It has partnered with various publishers including Elsevier, Cambridge University Press, Springer Nature and Royal Society to run seminar series for journals e.g.:

    https://cassyni.com/s/jcp
    https://cassyni.com/s/fmws
    https://cassyni.com/s/naturewater

    All published seminars receive a DOI e.g.:

    https://doi.org/10.52843/cassyni.dpf4mb

    57 votes
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  11. Add Médiathèque numérique Arte (VOD)

    Médiathèque numérique Arte
    https://vod.mediatheque-numerique.com

    Video on demand: over 5,000 films, documentaries and shows from Arte and UniversCiné.
    Videos are in French or subtitled in French language.
    For Alma only.
    An API is already available : https://mednumv3-backapi.lab.arte.tv/docs/v3/api-docs/simpleCatalog

    Contacts : Lauriane Sudol, l-sudol@artefrance.fr

    55 votes
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    Completed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The collection Médiathèque Numérique Arte (VOD) will be available for activation by July 4th

    DBID:BHXBP, and the records will be available in CDI.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  12. Wundmaterialkompendium

    Hello,
    Please add the database "Wundmaterialkompendium"
    URL https://wundmaterialkompendium.ch/
    to the Community Zone.
    This is a Reference database of wound care products used in Switzerland to support wound care professionals in medical school, nursing education, hospitals and pharmacies.

    54 votes
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  13. 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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    Completed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The collection Kaunas University of Technology Press Journals, Collection ID: 61707906810000041 has been added to the Knowledgebases.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  14. Pearson EBS

    Pearson has three new EBS packages, a German one, an English one and a combined one. Pearson was not added in the past because ExLibris couldn't get title lists. There are title lists for the EBS packages (see attached). So far there is not a single Pearson collection in the CZ. Please add at least one.

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  15. Editorial Tirant lo Blanch

    Editorial Tirant lo Blanch (https://editorial.tirant.com/es) is one of the main Law content providers in Spanish. The majority of the academic institutions are their customer.

    They produced databases, journals and books, and host them in their platforms (called Tirant Online, Biblioteca Tirant and Nube de Lectura). It would be very interesting to be able to index their contents.

    Adding their resources in the CDI would be very beneficial for all academic institutions studying Spanish Law.

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  16. Openjournals.nl

    Please index openjournals.nl.

    Openjournals offers academic, peer-reviewed journals a platform for online and fully open access publication.

    The platform is OJS-based.

    As of yet, these journals are published via the platform:

    Journal of Political Sociology
    Into the Magic Circle
    Tijdschrift voor Hoger Onderwijs
    Studies over de sociaaleconomische geschiedenis van Limburg
    Technophany Header Technophany
    Tijdschrift voor Jeugdgezondheidszorg
    Passion Logo Passion
    Aesthetic Investigations
    Tijdschrift voor onderwijspraktijkstudies
    Ecclesial Futures
    Relief – Revue électronique de littérature française
    Epilepsie
    Handelingen
    Early Modern Low Countries
    TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History
    Technology and Regulation
    Historical Life Course Studies
    Liber Quarterly
    The…

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  17. Ball State University Open Journals

    The Ball State University Libraries publish nine Open Access journals covering a range of disciplines, including biological sciences, humanities, education, social work, counseling psychology, literature, and philosophy. We recommend these for inclusion in all ExLibris discovery platforms (Summon, Primo) and knowledge bases (360/Intota, Alma, SFX).

    The journals include well-established titles such as Teaching History and The Journal for Social Action in Counseling & Psychology, as well as new titles such as The Journal of Special Education Preparation and Sport Social Work, launched in 2022.

    The current full journal list is:
    • Burkhardt Review, https://doi.org/10.33043/BR
    • Bulletin of the International Association…

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    Completed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    BALL_STATE_OPEN_ACCESS_JOURNALS has been added to the Knowledgebases.

    This change will be part of the 5th December Content Update 20235300 that will be released on Dec 31st, 2023.

    Best,

    Tamar

  18. Zanichelli Biblioteca Digitale

    We suggest adding to the KBs the digital lending platform Zanichelli Prestito Digitale https://www.zanichelli.it/universita/biblioteca-digitale that offers academic textbooks in Italian.
    Laura Perillo on behalf of the ITALE Association

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    Completed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Unfortunately, the provider will not share metadata with us, so we will be unable to create a collection other than the Torrossa one.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  19. Add Alma Media Ohj - Finnish Content

    Request by Finnish community to add Alma Media Ohj:
    Fokus Talous + Verotus
    Fokus Juridiikka
    Verkkokirjahylly
    Suomen Laki / Finlands Lag
    Bisnes-kirjasto

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  20. 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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