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  1. Add IEICE Digital Library for Central Discovery Index

    The content of IEICE is widely used in research institutes and universities in Japan.
    Please consider adding IEICE Digital Library in the Central Discovery Index.

    IEICE Digital Library
    https://www.ieice.org/publications/search/index.php?conts=ken&lang=en

    Some content of IEICE is already searchable, but the data is not properly and comprehensively loaded.

    Provider: Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
    Code: PRVEIC

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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We will reach out to Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and ask for a CDI feed.

    If you have a contact person with this provider, please share in this idea or directly with me

    tamar.ganor@clarivate.com .

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  2. 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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    Under Review  ·  AdminAnonymous (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    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


  3. CDI records request for InteLex Past Masters collection

    Our client University of Guelph has requested the CDI provide record coverage for the InteLex Past Masters CRKN collection (Collection ID: 615410000000002433)

    MARC records for the titles included in InteLex Past Masters website directly: https://www.nlx.com/marc_records/4.

    Please work with Dan Haig at InteLex to acquire data for the CDI to enrich user discovery for this collection.

    Thank you!

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  4. CDI collection for Elsevier Open Access articles

    Could you please add a CDI database only collection with links in record for Elsevier open access articles?

    There is no longer an Elsevier open access knowledge base collection https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-content/suggestions/43048611-add-elsevier-open-access-collection-to-alma-cz

    And I think this would work better as a CDI collection given how many OA articles there are in hybrid journals.

    For example, 76,000 archival articles were made open as the result of a large United States Library consortia agreement:
    https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/03/16/retroactively-open-elsevier-backflips-for-nerl-agreement/

    And these OA articles should be more easily discoverable via a dedicated CDI link in record collection.

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  5. Brepolis Library of Latin Texts [formerly Library of Latin Texts A, B]

    Requesting CZ content for Brepolis Library of Latin Texts [formerly Library of Latin Texts A and B, merged by provider in 2021].

    Library of Latin Texts A [collection ID: 613790000000000926) and Library of Latin Texts B [collection ID: 613790000000000922) contain outdated links and have not been updated since 2021. Metadata for both was poorer quality than what was supplied by vendor.

    A customer-contributed collection (Univ. of Western Australia) for Library of Latin Texts (collection ID: 61665968760007861) results in errors for about 100 records upon activation.

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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    For enrichment we will need to sign an agreement with the provider, so it might take some time.

    Nonetheless, we will reach out to Brepols and ask for an updated title list for these two collections.

    Regarding the contributed collection, it is managed by the contributing library. Feel free to reach out directly to them in order to communicate the necessary changes eres-lib@uwa.edu.au.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  6. Create CZ collection for Cambridge Histories Online: 2023

    I have moved my original submission from the general exchange to the content exchange here.

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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Thanks Courtney, this is indeed the right place to post these requests.

    We are already working on this collection, but there are some technical details that need to be worked out.

    I will post in the comments once we make some progress.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  7. EBSCOhost LitBase

    Please add EBSCO LitBase to the Alma Community Zone?
    There's more info and title list at
    www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/litbase

    I checked in the content roadmap documents for 2024 but found nothing about LitBase.

    See knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Content/NewandUpcomingCollections/ContentRoadmapPlans or in the files at https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Content/NewandUpcomingCollections/AlmaCKBRelease_Notes

    Thank you for any information on when this CZ e-collection might be available.

    Denise Green, CARLI

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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This collection only contains ~6,500 titles in Full Text, the rest are abstracts only.

    We will proceed to create this collection with the Full Text titles in Alma CZ.

    I will update once I have a timeline.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  8. DART

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

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  9. Add New Gale Archives collections to CZ and CDI

    Add New Gale Archives collections:

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    Under Review  ·  AdminAnonymous (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hi,

    Food History: Printed and Manuscript Recipe Books; 1669-1990 is already available:

    Collection ID 614920000000005958


    Regarding Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Community and Identity in North America Digital Archive, we will contact Gale and ask for the metadata of the collection.


    All the best,

    Rachel

    Senior Content Support Analyst

  10. The Pragda Complete Film Collection Life of File - Canada

    The following collection is missing in the CZ.

    The Pragda Complete Film Collection Life of File - Canada

    We hope that it would become available soon.

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    Under Review  ·  AdminAnonymous (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hi,


    Thank you for the additional information,

    We will reach out to Docuseek and ask for the metadata for this collection.


    Regards,

    Rachel

    Senior Content Support Analyst

     

  11. 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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  12. 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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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    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


  13. IOP eBooks AAS Astronomy 2024 Collection

    Can you please add the Institute of Physics collection for AAS astronomy 2024? We recently purchased this but I cannot find it in Alma. Thanks!

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  14. WISO Videos Wirtschaftswissenschaften

    WISO Videos Wirtschaftswissenschaften is already added as a (portfolio)- selective collection to the ALMA CZ.

    Please also bring in the CDI functionality as well.
    The databases from GBI GENIOS are a very valuable resoruce within the German scientific community.

    Provider: GBI-Genios Deutsche Wirtschaftsdatenbank GmbH
    Freischützstr. 96
    81927 München
    wiso@genios.de
    +49 (0) 89 99 28 79 - 0

    Thank you very much!
    Best,
    Bärbel

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  15. 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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  16. POWER TO THE PEOPLE: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press, Nineteenth to Twenty-first Century (Gale Primary Sources)

    Hello, can you please add this Gale collection?

    Collection is described here: https://www.gale.com/c/power-to-the-people-counterculture-social-movements-and-the-alternative-press

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  17. New Database Request: Archives of Sexuality and Gender (Part 6)

    Please add a new collection to the client center for Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Part 6, Community and Identity in North America from Gale. The starting URL is https://link.gale.com/apps/AHSI?u=[LOCATION_ID].

    Thank you!

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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We are checking with Gale regarding the metadata for

    Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Community and Identity in North America Digital Archive (is this what you are referring to as part 6?)

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  18. 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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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The provider has informed us that they would be able to send an update on the collections by end of September.

    I will add information once we have reviewed their progress.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  19. 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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  20. "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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    Under Review  ·  AdminAnonymous (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    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


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