Content
We welcome your ideas for new content (metadata) to add to the Knowledge Bases (KBs - Alma CZ, SFX, 360) and Discovery services (CDI - Central Discovery Index whose data supports Primo and Summon).
- Check if your idea has already been posted and vote for it before posting a new idea.
- Choose the right category: "New Provider" for content from a provider that has no available content in the KBs or CDI, or "Existing Provider" for content from a provider that already has content available in the KBs or CDI.
- Add a direct link to the provider/resource you suggest, and a contact person if possible.
- For enrichment requests add the relevant collection ID(s).
- Make sure you mention any specific added value your idea has to the community such as language or supporting diversity.
- Did you find errors in an existing collection? please open a case.
- A new year has begun but no corresponding annual collection? post an idea in Idea Exchange, make sure to mention if it is an existing provider.
- Existing Provider - if your idea is for a new collection from a provider that already has content available in the KBs and CDI or enriching records for an existing collection, use this category. No voting is necessary, ideas for existing providers will be handled regardless of voting.
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- Other - for non provider specific ideas
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Making the peer reviewed icon more accurate
Articles and journals are marked with the peer reviewed icon in Primo based on information extracted from Ulrichsweb (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Ulrich%27s/Product_Documentation/Searching/Ulrichsweb%3A_Peer-Reviewed_Refereed_Journals_and_Academic_Scholarly_Journals).
The Peer Review indicator can only be set at the journal level at the moment. If a journal is identified as peer reviewed, or refereed in Ulrichsweb, all articles from this journal will be shown with the peer reviewed icon in Primo.
However, not all articles in such journals are peer reviewed, meaning the icon sends the wrong information to user, and that this label is not reliable. It can further cause users to lose confidence in the system.…797 votesThanks for the examples - we will review them and discuss our options.
Best,
Tamar
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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 votesHello,
We will reach out to Thoth (with the address provided in the comment - thank you!), and will review the available metadata to evaluate our options.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Curio.ca from CBC/Radio-Canada
Please add this streaming video and audio collection for Discovery
78 votesHello,
We will reach out to curio.ca, and ask for metadata for CDI.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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new e-collection for: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University journals
Please include journals (listed below) published by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press as target collection in Uresolver and SFX:
Journal of Civil Engineering and Management;
Transport;
Journal of Business Economics and Management;
Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management;
International Journal of Strategic Property Management.NB these journals 2011–2017 were co-published with Taylor and Francis.
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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.55 votesHello,
We will review this request for indexing in CDI.
Thank you for your contribution!
Best,
Rael -
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.53 votesHello Linas,
We will reach out to you shortly to discuss the delivery of the metadata.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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
51 votesHello,
We will review the option to add UNESDOC Digital Library to CDI.
Thanks for the idea, and for your votes.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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: 6155480302000004145 votesHello,
We will reach out to Overdrive, and ask for enriched metadata for Kanopy collections.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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.
39 votesHello,
We will reach out to USGS and ask for discovery metadata.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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
37 votesHello,
We are currently working with the provider to determine if we can ingest this content for Discovery as well as for Alma enrichment.
Thank you,
Rael -
Please add Arthistoricum.net
Please add Arthistoricum.net with portfolios to the ckb.
https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalogThank you and kind regards
30 votesHello,
We will contact this provider to request the metadata for both collections.
It would be helpful if you could reach out to them as well, and express your interest, as they were unable to provide us with title lists in the past.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add a new content Provider in KBC : Biblioondemand
BiblioonDemand provide access to 3 million electronic books in French and foreign languages.
It is also a platform for French libraries to access digital lending .
Contact : conseil@biblioondemand.com30 votesHello,
We will reach out to Biblioondemand, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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"Architectural Institute of Japan Search System (日本建築学会論文等検索システム - 機関定額制)" for discovery
"Architectural Institute of Japan Search System (日本建築学会論文等検索システム - 機関定額制)" is a database managed by Architectural Institute of Japan.
It contains many publications published by Architectural Institute of Japan.
Some of journals has been covered by existing databases like IRDB, J-STAGE but this database includes not only academic journals but also conference reports or any other type of contents, and they are not searchable on discovery.https://www.aij.or.jp/paper/search.html
It would be helpful for researchers if Ex Libris discovery included this database as a search target.
25 votesHello,
This request has been selected as part of the 2025 CERV votes.
We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for his collection.
If you can share a designated contact person with this provider, that would be much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add SocArXiV as CDI collection
Can SocArXiV be added as a CDI collection? https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv Thanks!
16 votesHello,
This request has been selected as part of the 2025 CERV votes.
We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for his collection.
If you can share a designated contact person with this provider, that would be much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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the atlantic
Could you please create a database collection for The Atlantic in Alma?
Provider: The Atlantic Monthly
Title: The Atlantic
URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/Thanks,
Zhaneille Green
Duke University Libraries15 votesHello,
The Atlantic is a magazine with an ISSN, and it is more suitably represented as a portfolio.
There is one available for activation in Miscellaneous Ejournals, Collection ID: 61111016833201000 (Portfolio ID: 531000000000708627).
If you could please add in a comment what is the use case of having this title represented as a database, that would be very helpful.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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request new collections to be added [NII-REO Cambridge University Press]
Collection: NII-REO: Cambridge University Press
Provider: National Institute of Informatics
Titles: 195
URL: https://reo.nii.ac.jp/oja/HtmlIndicate/html/journal/publishers/SUP0000009000.html
title list: https://reo.nii.ac.jp/oja/HtmlIndicate/html/titlelist/titlelist_reo.tsv
Thanks.
14 votesHello,
We will review the title list, and update once we have a timeline for adding this collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Make individual collections of some of the titles in Gale Directory Library
We would like to request that the following collections be created from some of the titles within the Gale Directory Library collection (Collection ID: 613800000000000330):
• Brands and their companies.
• Directory of special libraries and information centers.
• Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Organizations
• Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations
• Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S.
• Gale directory of publications and broadcast media.
• Government research directory.
• International research centers directory.
• Publishers directory.
• Research centers directory.
• Scholarships, fellowships, and loans.
• The National faculty directory.These are series and…
14 votesHello,
We will review the available title list, and see how we can split it up for creating these collections.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add Essential Primary Sources (Schlager Digital Library)
Please add to CDI:
Name of Collection: Essential Primary Sources
Platform: Schlager Digital Library
URL: https://library.schlagergroup.com/
Language: English13 votesHello,
We will reach out to Schlager, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add CDI for Gideon content
We already have the e-books activated but would like CDI added for the database content.
https://www.gideononline.com/10 votesHi,
We will reach out to Gideon Publishing and ask for the records related to the eBook collections.
Regards,
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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Target/Collection: ASTM journals hosted on ASME platform
ASTM (American Society of Testing and Materials) is in the process of moving their journals from their ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library database to another society's (ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)) platform, see https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/astm-journals .
There are portfolios for the ASTM journals set up under the ASME Digital Collection Journals collection (Collection ID: 611000000000000172). I've activated a second version of that collection, given it the 'ASTM Digital Library Journals' public name and activated the ASTM journal portfolios under that collection. Since the ASTM journals are purchased separately, it seems to me that they should be under a separate…
10 votesHello,
We will reach out to ASME for the collection metadata and setup.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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