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  1. Curio.ca from CBC/Radio-Canada

    Please add this streaming video and audio collection for Discovery

    76 votes
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    15 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Unfortunately, there was no response from the provider on the legal agreement so we will not be able to add their metadata to CDI.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  2. FAO - Food and Agriculture Organisation publications

    FAO - have a huge amount of OA material available on their website. We would like to see the metadata for this available within the community zone. http://www.fao.org/publications/en/

    75 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →

  3. Enrichment of Community Zone bibliographic records for Mediearkivet

    Enrich and update Mediearkivet with bibliographic records in CZ.

    46 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →

  4. Add full MARC records to CZ for OverDrive and Kanopy

    OverDrive and Kanopy collections have recently been added to the Alma Community Zone. We're thrilled at this possibility, as it should help consortium members manage their collections better. However, the brief MARC records are wholly unexpected given that the company provides MARC records to subscribers.

    If it is contractually possible, please add the company's MARC records to the CZ for corresponding portfolios, as this will aid in discovery and efficiency for both the consortium and member libraries.

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

    Hello,

    The OverDrive Ebooks and Audiobooks (Collection ID: 61499649300000041) has a Bib rank of 77, which is currently the best we can get.

    Kanopy currently does not provide MARC records. However, we have communicated to them that there is significant interest from the community in obtaining better records and we hope they will be able to provide these in the future.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  5. Change the 'Citation Online' feature for the content type=Report for ASFA records when full text is available

    I would like to propose that the content type=Report for Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) records are changed so that ASFA records with Full text links can be shown instead of 'Citation Online' which is misleading to the client. We have inputted thousands of government document records in ASFA which have a full text link but these links are not currently displayed in the Summon Brief results. ASFA is no longer just an abstract and indexing database as it now includes links to full text publications and grey literature. This should be changed as it can impact all users…

    43 votes
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    1 comment  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    As there was no response, I am closing this idea.

    Please reach out to me directly if you would like to discuss further tamar.ganor@clarivate.com, or create a new idea.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  6. Add Open Access eBooks from the Publisher Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, Germany to the Knowledgebases

    The Wallstein Verlag has published a number of open access eBooks in the humanities, and the number is increasing.
    It would be fantastic if these OA eBooks could be made available as an eCollection in ALMA.
    https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/open-access-books.html
    Thanks so much
    Best Matthias

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

    Hello,

    The provider has not responded to our communication, therefore we will not be able to add this collection to the Knowledgebases.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  7. DART

    Please add records to DART-Europe E-theses Portal (JWZ) and make it discoverable in Summon.

    38 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Regrettably, the DART-Europe e-theses portal will be closing down on 31 January 2025. 

    Therefore we will not add this to CDI.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  8. Add a new collection from the Universität Heidelberg

    Please add the collection Propylaeum-eBooks to the CZ.

    Universität Heidelberg is an excisting provider, see Collection: "Open Journal System Heidelberg", Collection-ID: 614330000000001224.

    Further information for data interface: https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/kataloge/datenschnittstellen.html

    34 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Unfortunately, the provider is unable to provide metadata for this collection.

    They will let us know once they are capable of sustainably sending us their metadata.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  9. Add PsycINFO citations to CDI

    Currently, APA PsycINFO citations are not being displayed in Summon. Please consider ingesting the information so that it shows up in the discovery layer

    29 votes
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    1 comment  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The provider is not interested in sending us the metadata for this collection to be indexed in CDI.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  10. IG Publishing "IGP_Evidence Based Acquisitions Front List" and "IGP Evidence Based Acquisitions Archive List"

    Dear Support,

    (Ecumenical Information Network)
    We have subscribe IG Publishing service and the vendor has provided the titles to SFX, please help to create following target names in SFX and Primo Central 

    •     IGP_Evidence Based Acquisitions Front List

    •     IGP Evidence Based Acquisitions Archive List

    Thanks and regards,

    Moris

    29 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than three years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may resubmit it in Idea Exchange, please add as many details as possible.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Content.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  11. New Community Zone electronic collection request: IET Open Access Journals on Wiley Online Library

    The University of Strathclyde requests the addition of a new CZ collection for IET Open Access titles that are now available on the Research Hub on Wiley Online Library. The details of the 43 titles to be added are listed here: https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
    Currently the IET titles are available on the ‘Wiley Online Library Open Access’ collection (Collection ID: 614330000000000427)’ however the content has now moved from the main Wiley Online Library ( https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com ) site to the Research Hub on Wiley Online ( https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com ), and the links no longer work. We would prefer if the IET Journals had their…

    25 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Wiley confirmed the IET titles should be part of the Wiley Online Library Open Access and they will not remove them.

    The links are working fine, if you still experience access issues please open a support ticket.

    Thanks,

    Tamar

  12. Add Marketline advantage

    Please index Marketline advantage database and make its search results appear in Summon. At the moment it is a 0 title database. XV8

    21 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This provider has previously shown no interest in supplying metadata for a full-text collection/CDI.

    If you have any updated information about their willingness to share metadata, please submit a new idea with all relevant details, including a contact person.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  13. Enrich CZ MARC records for CRL (Center for Research Libraries) collections

    CRL (Center for Research Libraries) has provided metadata to Ex Libris, which has been used to create CZ collections with MARC bibliographic records and portfolios. However, these collections have very poor MARC bibliographic metadata. I suspect they were created by KBART file uploads. Because many of the resources in these collections are older digitized materials, they lack identifiers such as ISSNs and ISBNs and are thus unlikely to join to robust existing CZ records (nor are they likely to be overlaid by provide record loads or CONSER records).

    Could Ex Libris please work with CRL to enrich the MARC bibliographic…

    19 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We recently explored this option, and received a response from CRL in February 2025 stating that CRL is not interested in providing CRL MARC records for bibliographic enrichment at this time. It would not be in keeping with agreements they have in place.

    Therefore we will not be able to enrich these collections.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  14. Make Embase available in CDI

    Please make Embase (ALMA e-collection ID: 614330000000000575), an Elsevier bibliographic database, available in CDI.

    Access URL: https://www.embase.com
    Content and coverage: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/embase-biomedical-research/coverage-and-content
    Contact: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/embase-biomedical-research/contact-sales

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

    Hello,

    We are unable to add Embase to CDI due to different business aspects preventing us from cooperating with Elsevier on this matter.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  15. Taylor & Francis Digital Archival Collections

    Taylor & Francis is making the following six collections available through the Digital Archival Collections Group Purchasing Scheme:
    Cold War Eastern Europe, Module I: 1953-1960
    Cold War Eastern Europe, Module II: 1961-1966
    Cold War Eastern Europe, Module III: 1967-1975
    Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War
    South Asia Archive
    War, State and Society

    Can these six collections be added to 360 Client Center as individual databases, please?

    13 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    It seems these resources are no longer hosted on Taylor & Francis platform.

    If these collections are still relevant, please post a new idea with the links to the collections.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  16. More Naxos metadata in Community Zone

    Hello, I see that there are now no-portfolio databases in the Community Zone for the different Naxos collections and that these are region-specific.

    At our institution, we have separate Primo search scopes for articles (where the CDI records appear) and everything else. We'd like our Naxos records to appear within the 'everything else' scope so would prefer to use bibliographic records and portfolios to manage these collections. Is it possible to include title-level records in the CZ for these collections? Then institutions would have the choice to use CZ records, or CDI records, or both.

    12 votes
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    1 comment  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Unfortunately, we are not able to use the Naxos records to create CZ collections, as there is now ay to set up an automated update for them.

    We are able to use them for CDI, and created regional collections to correspond with the different Naxos collections.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  17. ACM OA Basic Access

    Please add a new collection/database according to the basic access option: https://libraries.acm.org/digital-library/platform-and-features

    Best regards,
    Andreas

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

    Hello,

    ACM confirmed that the difference between Digital Library Basic and Digital Library Premium is not in the metadata, but in the tools.

    They do not have separate title lists for these.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  18. eLibrary Pearson Germany > please add titles

    At the moment, this collection "eLibrary Pearson Germany" is a zero-title database.

    Are there already plans to add titles to it?

    If not, this should be proposed herewith.

    URL: https://elibrary.pearson.de/

    12 votes
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  19. Oxford Scholarship Online Yearly subject specific collections for years prior to 2022

    Most of the Oxford Scholarship Online subject specific collections only have yearly collections that go back to 2022 (for example Classical Studies has a 2022 and 2023 collection). Could yearly collections for the years prior to 2022 be added to the Alma CZ? We are particularly interested in yearly subject specific collections for the following subjects:

    Political Science
    Literature
    Business & Management
    Classical Studies
    Economics and Finance
    History
    Linguistics
    Neuroscience
    Philosophy
    Psychology
    Public Health and Epidemiology
    Religion
    Social Work

    Thank you!

    12 votes
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    4 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Oxford confirmed the Oxford University Press Books Autoholdings Collection (Collection ID: 61707906870000041) is the best way to track these titles, as they will not be generating these historical title lists.

    Please reach out to me directly if you require more information

    tamar.ganor@clarivate.com

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  20. Westlaw ebooks to the CZ

    Please add Westlaw ebooks to the CZ

    https://uk.westlaw.com/Browse/Home/Books?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&navId=DFF074054830BCFBA77DA6B6709C8287&comp=wluk&startIndex=161&querySubmissionGuid=i0ad740160000017ca235b7280ea5d6c0

    11 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Unfortunately, the Westlaw team cannot send metadata for this collection so we will not be able to create it in the Knowledgebases.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

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