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  1. start enrichment process for Hogrefe eBooks (Hogrefe eLibrary)

    ExLibris created an automation for updates that will run on a weekly basis and will check for any changes made to the title list by Hogrefe Verlag. However, the metadata are rudimentary. We are missing author or editor, place of publication and publisher in the metadata. This makes it difficult to find out the ebooks in Primo VE.

    Hence: could you please start an enrichment process with Hogrefe for their eLibrary eBooks titles?

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    4 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The Ex Libris cataloging team manually improved the records from Hogrefe, and performed enrichment for 1,411 records.

    This cannot be automated due to insufficient quality of records, so it is considered as a one-time enrichment effort.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  2. 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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  3. 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

    89 votes
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    17 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The collection EBSCOHost Education Source Ultimate, Collection ID 614970000000001000, has been added to the Knowledgebases.

    Please be advised that Alma does not accommodate abstracts and TOC titles, so this collection reflects the full text titles only - 3,855 titles.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  4. A new Alma CZ authority vocabulary for the Finnish work-authority-file (case 06675712)

    A request for new content ASAP, upon ExLibris suggestion (case 06675712): a new Alma CZ authority vocabulary for the Finnish work-authority-file

    The National Library of Finland offers a work authority file, which is urgently needed by all Finnish Alma-libraries. As it turns out, it is not possible to add the Finnish work-authority-file into the existing Alma CZ FINAF vocabulary (due to the work-authority records and name-authority records with identical 001 fields). As a workaround, ExLibris SF support suggested (see case 06675712) adding a new Alma CZ authority vocabulary containing only the Finnish work-authority-file.

    Hence, we are requesting Ex Libris to…

    66 votes
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  5. Enrich Kanopy PDA collections

    Please work with Kanopy to enrich the records in the Kanopy PDA collections in the Alma CZ.

    e.g.
    Kanopy Europe Academic PDA Collection
    Collection ID: 61554803020000041

    57 votes
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  6. Add Africa Commons from Coherent Digital

    Please add the Africa Commons collection, along with the modules listed below, to Alma's Community Zone. These collections directly support diversity by making available historically significant resources created by and for Black audiences.

    Africa Commons: https://africacommons.net/
    -History and Culture: https://africacommons.net/modules/history-and-culture/
    -Black South African Magazines: https://africacommons.net/modules/black-south-african-magazines/
    Southern African Films and Documentaries:https://africacommons.net/modules/southern-african-films-and-documentaries/

    Here is the general contact email: information@coherentdigital.net

    Thank you!

    53 votes
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    10 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We are working with Coherent Digital to obtain MARC records for these collections, currently no timeline.

    The collections are available in the Knowledgebases.

    1. Africa Commons: Black South African Magazines, Collection ID: 615410000000003366
    2. Africa Commons: History and Culture, Collection ID: 615400000000000728
    3. Africa Commons: Southern African Films and Documentaries, Collection ID: 615410000000003348

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  7. Add new Oxford Bibliographies Online collections

    Please add these new collections from Oxford University Press to the Alma Community Zone:

    Oxford Bibliographies Online: Environmental History
    Oxford Bibliographies Online: Food Studies

    44 votes
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    3 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The colletion Oxford Bibliographies Online: History of Medicine, Collection ID: 61830727080000041

    has been added to the Knowledgebases.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  8. Cairn sciences

    Please add the new platform Cairn sciences to Alma.
    This platform contains over 1000 Ebooks from all areas of formal and natural sciences in French.
    URL: https://www.cairn-sciences.info/
    Best,
    Igor Hammer

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

    Hello,

    This collection has been added to the Alma CZ:

    Cairn Global Ouvrages Sciences et Techniques; collection ID 614920000000006000

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  9. Suggestion for a Pearson eLibrary platform collection

    Unfortunately, there is no eCollection in ALMA yet for the Pearson eLibrary, which is operated by Pearson Germany for university libraries (https://elibrary.pearson.de). This new eBook platform contains important textbooks that we would like to make available to our students.

    Please add an eCollection for this Pearson eLibrary platform to our Discovery Indexes, KnowledgeBases and the Alma Community Zone.

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

    Hello,

    The collection Pearson Elibrary, Collection ID: 61942041110000041 has been added to the CZ with 1,424 portfolios.

    We do not receive any discovery metadata for this content from Pearson.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  10. Please add USGS Publications Warehouse to Primo Central Index/Alma knowledge base

    Please add USGS Publications Warehouse to Primo Central Index and Alma knowledge base. The USGS Publications Warehouse (https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/) is the authoritative index to official, USGS-authored publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Free full-text access to over 80,000 new and historic USGS publications is available, and new documents are added daily as new USGS reports are published and historic reports are digitized and made available online.

    36 votes
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  11. Enrich metadata from vendor Editions ENI in the Alma CZ

    The ebook records in the e-collection "Bibliotheque numerique ENI" have currently brief level 3. So generally only ISBNs, publication year and title in their metadata. This is not enough to provide optimal discovery experience for users.

    We would like to ask you to enrich the metadata and enhance the brief level. We are also in contact with the publisher and will post here any feedback from their side.

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    Completed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The MARC file we received from the content provider contained 863 titles out of 1,029 titles.

    We used the MARC file to enrich the records, and confirming with the provider if we can receive the records for the rest of the collection.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  12. Migrate Accessible Archives collections to Coherent Digital

    Coherent Digital has purchased Accessible Archives and is now migrating their collections to the Coherent Digital platform, as part of the History Commons module. See FAQ for more details: https://coherentdigital.net/accessiblefaq.

    Can all of the existing Accessible Archives collections be reestablished under the Coherent Digital provider? There are 136 Accessible Archives collections in the CZ.

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  13. request new collections to be added[NII-REO Springer Journal Archive,NII-REO: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 1501- Vol. 17

    NII-REO(OJA) currently applies the National Academic License to the following collections.

    Could you please create new 2 databases?

    1.
    Provider:National Institute of Informatics
    Database Name:NII-REO: Springer Journal Archive
    Titles: Journal 70
    Default URL:https://reo.nii.ac.jp/oja/HtmlIndicate/html/journal/publishers/SUP0000007000.html

    2.
    Provider:National Institute of Informatics
    Database Name:NII-REO:Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science(Vol. 1501- Vol. 1760)
    Titles: 259

    Default URL:https://reo.nii.ac.jp/oja/HtmlIndicate/html/vol_issues/SUP0000008000/JOU0008000000/lncs_volumes.html

    The title list can be obtained from the download button on the web page.
    https://support.nii.ac.jp/ja/reo/oja/oja_db

    Supplier entered as ”Springer Journal Archive” corresponds to 1. NII-REO: Springer Journal Archive.

    Supplier entered as ”Springer LNCS” corresponds to 2. NII-REO: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 1501- Vol.…

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  14. OUP Law Trove 2023-24

    Please can you add the latest OUP Law Trove 2023-2024 collection to the Community Zone? It is already available on the publisher website (new collections released every September).

    27 votes
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  15. Add HeinOnline Voting Rights & Election Law Collection

    Please add the HeinOnline Voting Rights & Election Law Collection to the CZ.

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

    Hello,

    The collection Voting Rights & Election Law is available for activation since September 10th, apologies for not updating sooner.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  16. CZ New collection request: Packt ebook Library on IEEE Xplore

    We would like to request new collections to be added to CZ for IEEE Xplore interface: IEEE-Packt ebook Library 2023. (like IEEE-Wiley and IEEE-MIT)

    Following is the title lists from IEEE Xplore website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/otherfiles/IEEEXplore_Global_Packt-eBooks-2023.txt

    Thank you.

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  17. Enrich Project Gutenberg MARC Records with Provider Metadata

    Project Gutenberg now has MARC records available. Could their CZ records be enriched with this provider data?

    https://librarytechnology.org/pr/31162

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

    Hello,

    Sorry for missing the update on this idea.

    The collection Project Gutenberg Online Catalog, Collection ID: 613780000000001569

    has been enriched and now almost all the collection is in medium Bibliographic ranking.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  18. JSTOR Path to Open Ebooks

    The first 100 titles in JSTOR's new Path to Open initiative will be live on their platform in October. The title list is already available so it would be great if Ex Libris could work to add the new collection in time for when the titles go live.
    https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open/titles/

    Please treat this as an annual ebook collection as 2024, 2025, 2026 will have discrete collections and libraries can opt whether to participate in just one year or all years.

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    Completed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    JSTOR_PATH_TO_OPEN has been added to the Knowledgebases.

    This change will be part of the 1st January Content Update ( 20240100 ) that will be released on January 7th.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar 

  19. Add HeinOnline Collection to Alma CZ

    Add HeinOnline Collection Military Legal Resources

    22 votes
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  20. 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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