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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).


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  1. Projectr Edu

    Please add Projectr Edu collection(s) to the knowledge bases as well as MARC records for the titles. Projectr Edu is a streaming video platform for libraries from Grasshopper Films. It contains close to 1,000 films. They're adding new titles very frequently so it would need to be updated regularly. Contact info: info@projectr.tv and Ryan Krivoshey ryan@grasshopperfilm.com There may need to be collection variations by geographic region due to rights restrictions.

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  2. Add winmo database to Alma

    Please consider adding the Winmo database to the Alma CZ
    Thanks!

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  4. LandScan

    Please add LandScan to the 360KB.

    Provider: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    URL: https://landscan.ornl.gov/

    This is an open access resource. It turned OA in 2023.

    These population datasets are valuable for GIS researchers and are intended to aid in emergency preparedness, readiness, response, and recovery missions; risk assessments; site suitability studies; and a full range of other applications that depend on accurate population data.

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  5. Add "新建築データ(SHINKENCHIKU DATA)" to Central Discovery Index and 360KB

    "新建築データ(SHINKENCHIKU DATA)" is an online database of Japanese biggest journal of architecture.

    Both paper version of this journal and this database are widely subscribed in many universities in Japan.

    Please consider adding "新建築データ" in the Central Discovery Index and KB.

    ■"新建築データ"

    https://data.shinkenchiku.online/en?

    Provider: Shinkenchiku-Sha Co., Ltd
    Code: N/A

    Thank you.

    4 votes
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  6. Policy Commons

    Please ingest as a CDI "link in record" database the various Policy Commons modules on this page: https://policycommons.net/modules/

    We are particularly interested in "Global Think Tanks", but all should be added.

    Also note that while I expect this would be a new provider, there is already an idea with a status of "planned" for Africa Commons, from the same provider, Coherent Digital.

    Thank you!

    Matthew

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  7. Oxford University Press (OUP) Read and Publish 2024-2025

    The 'KB+ Jisc Collections OUP Read and publish 2023-2025' is not currently available in the CZ could it be added please as soon as possible.

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  8. Add collections scholars-e-library / ...

    The collections

    "scholars-e-library / Sprachwissenschaft/Spracherwerb"

    "scholars-e-library / Germanistik 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Germanistik 2020_2"

    "scholars-e-library / Geschichte 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Literaturwissenschaft/Anglistik 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Sprachwissenschaft/Anglistik 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Medien & Kommunikation 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Medien & Kommunikation 2020_2"

    "scholars-e-library / Philosophie 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Politikwissenschaft 2020_2"

    "scholars-e-library / Religion/Theologie - Exegese 2020_2"

    "scholars-e-library / Religion/Theologie - Kirchengeschichte 2020_2"

    "scholars-e-library / Religion/Theologie - Religionswissenschaft 2020_2"

    "scholars-e-library / Romanistik/Hispanistik 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Psychotherapie 2020_2"

    "scholars-e-library / Sonderpädagogik 2020_1"

    "scholars-e-library / Sonderpädagogik 2020_2"

    from provider "UTB Scholars" was purchased by libraries in North Rhine-Westphalia. Please add the ebook collections to the Alma CZ.

    For…

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    Hello,

    The only two collections that are missing completely are 

    1. scholars-e-library / Sprachwissenschaft/Anglistik 2020_1
    2. scholars-e-library / Religion/Theologie - Religionswissenschaft 2020_2

    Please confirm if others are represented properly in the KBs (instead of 2020 in two parts 1/2 as mentioned in this list, we received annual 2020 collections from the provider with no breakdown).

    We will reach out to the provider to confirm the two missing collections.

    Thanks,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager


  9. add ACM open access backfile

    Can you make this new collection selectable in 360? Lots of new OA content is now available but the current ACM:Digital Library: OA collection only has 4 titles.

    ACM Opens First 50 Years Backfile

    April 7, 2022
    ACM has opened the articles published during the first 50 years of its publishing program. These articles, published between 1951 and the end of 2000, are now open and freely available to view and download via the ACM Digital Library.
    ACM’s first 50 years backfile contains more than 117,500 articles on a wide range of computing topics. In addition to articles published between…

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  10. IGI global

    Please consider adding a collection to the 360 KB for the IGI Global EBA for the Carolina Consortium.
    Thank you!

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  11. Break up IBISWorld into sub-collections

    The existing IBISWorld collection (IBISWorld Alma ID 6113915960000041 DBID 6EY) is for the entire platform, but many customers license only a subset of that content. The smaller IBISWorld collections in the CZ are not connected to a CDI DB and they aren't complete (e.g., there's no collection for the Ontario Provincial Reports). Please make more subset collections and CDI DBs for them.

    4 votes
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    Hello,
    We will reach out to the provider and ask for the metadata for the sub-collections.

    We will also look into mapping them to CDI.
    Thanks,
    Tamar Ganor
    Content Product Manager

  12. Add KB Collection for Hirzel Verlag Journals

    Please add a KB collection for Hirzel Verlag journals on the Biblioscout platform.

    It appears they only publish one journal:
    ZfdA Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur
    https://biblioscout.net/journal/zfda
    Start coverage year is 2005 and ISSN is 0044-2518.

    There's already a Community Zone collection named "Biblioscout - S. Hirzel Verlag Elibrary" (collection ID 616200000000000030) but Content Support clarified that it's only for ebooks and that a journal portfolio cannot be added to it.

    Thanks.

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  13. add KU Language Science Press 2024-2026 to alma

    Hello,
    I see the older Knowledge Unlatched Language Science Press packages, but not this one to choose: KU Language Science Press 2024-2026. Can you please add this most recent one so we can activate it?
    Much appreciated!

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  14. Add Taiwan Open Access Journals(TOAJ) into Alma CZ & CDI

    We would like to add Taiwan Open Access Journals (TOAJ) into ALMA CZ and CDI. TOAJ is a significant open access platform in Taiwan, and it is highly requested by many Taiwan Alma users.
    URL: https://toaj.stpi.narl.org.tw/index?lang2=E

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    Hello,

    We will reach out to this provider and check if they can send us metadata that we can use.

    Please be advised, that although this is Open Access, we will need to confirm with our legal department that the metadata can be used.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  15. Create GeoScienceWorld Withdrawn Ebooks Collection

    Work with provider to create a separate, "withdrawn titles" collection for GeoScienceWorld content that is not available to new customers but is available to existing customers.

    [Ex Libris note: Related to support case # 07011161]

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  16. ASM Technical Books

    Please create a CZ collection for ASM Technical Books.
    https://dl.asminternational.org/technical-books

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  17. Create new/separate automatic holdings collections for Taylor & Francis

    I'd love to make use of the new Taylor & Francis automatic holdings feature, but the collections it points to are collections that we are already using. For certain providers, I prefer to use automatic holdings as a "back-up" to my own management. The "Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete" is the collection that the GOBI API uses. I'm also already using the "Taylor & Francis Current Content Access" for another reason. Springer and Wiley both have separate autoholdings collections. Could separate collections also be created for Taylor & Francis? Thanks!

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  18. DART

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

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  19. "Database for Research Thesis Catalog of Japanese Literature" for discovery

    "Database for Research Thesis Catalog of Japanese Literature(国文学論文目録データベース)" is a union catalog database of research papers on Japanese literature.

    https://ronbun.nijl.ac.jp/kokubun

    This database includes information on research papers on Japanese literature, Japanese language studies, and Japanese language education.

    It would be helpful for researchers if Ex Libris discovery included this database as a search target.

    Provider: National Institute of Japanese Literature
    Code: OFN

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    Hi,

    We will reach out to the National Institute of Japanese Literature and ask for the records metadata for this collection.

    Regards,


    Rachel

    Senior Content Support Analyst


  20. new Sage 2024 collections

    Can you please add these new Sage collections that we purchased in early 2024? I am not seeing them in Alma.

    • Sage Business Skills 2
    • SRM Video: Quantitative & Mixed Methods Collection
    • Sage Business Data Decisions
    • Social Justice Collection
    • Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research

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    Hi,


    The collection "Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research" will be available in Alma by the end of May 2024.


    Regarding the other collections you mentioned, we will reach out to Sage and ask for the metadata for those collections.


    Regards,

    Rachel

    Senior Content Support Analyst


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