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.
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- 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
254 results found
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Add Swank film database to Summon
Swank is in the Knowledge Base but not available to track in Summon. Can we make it available to track?
22 votesHello,
There are three Swank collections in the Knowledgebases:
SWANK_DIGITAL_CAMPUS_TOP_1000_VIDEOS
SWANK_DIGITAL_CAMPUS_TOP_1500_COLLECTION
SWANK_DIGITAL_CAMPUS_TOP_500_VIDEOSHowever, it is not possible for Swank to send metadata for discovery as their agreements do not allow sharing that level of metadata.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Add chapter and contents information to book records
Chapter and contents information is extrememly useful to our users but is often missing from records. We'd like records to be enriched with this information where possible.
21 votesHello,
Some providers cannot send us granular metadata for book chapters and contents.
If you have a specific provider in mind, please post a new idea.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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360Link usage stats for un-normalized journal titles and CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) titles
In current specification of 360Link usage stats, admin can not get detailed journal usage stats for un-normalized journal titles from "By Title and ISSN (Journal Title)".
Especially, admins in Japan (probably Korea and China are the same),are unsatisfied with that they can not get the usage of titles they registered in Library Specific Holdings and CJK(Chinese, Japanese and Korean) titles.
I hope it would be improved.21 votesThis is not an Alma issue, an enhancement for 360 Usage Statistics has been created for this request.
for more information contact Amy Pemble -
Open Access Digital Theological Library
The Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL) has a clear ethical mission: to make all high-quality, open-access content in religious studies discoverable to the global community through a single curated, search experience. “Our goal is both to provide existing content to a global audience and to give the developing world a voice to speak to the developed world,” explained Digital Theological Library Director Thomas Phillips. “We curate without regard to religious perspective, without any bias as far as ideology.” They curate in multiple languages, offering open-access resources in the modern languages of German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Korean, and Chinese in…
20 votesHello,
We were informed that the provider will not send us metadata for their collections.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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National Academies Press
Please add portfolios to the National Academies Press electronic collection in the Community Zone. The collection currently has 2,260 portfolios, but the NAP has over 9,000 books available.
18 votesHello,
Pleas open a support case if there are still missing portfolios for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Target/Collection : CLACSO e-books Library
Please add the collection
{KBI Migration}9 votesHello,
Unfortunately, since this idea did not gather enough votes since posted, we will close it and not add CLASCO to the KBs.
Thank you for your efforts,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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ISSO-Kennisbank RU-
Please enrich for discovery the database ISSO-Kennisbank from ISSO. This databases is very important for Dutch academic libraries, they contain information that is not available in scholarly databases.
The Publisher wants to share his data.17 votesHello,
We have been unable to establish an agreement with this provider to ingest the requested content and are therefore closing this request for the time being.
Thank you for your contribution,
Rael -
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-sales17 votesHello,
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
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Please add records for open source art books to Primo Central index
Guggenheim Museum on the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/guggenheimmuseumGetty Publications Virtual Library:
http://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/index.htmlThank you!
16 votesHello,
Unfortunately, this idea did not gather enough votes since posted.
Therefore we will close it and it will not be added to CDI.
Thank you for your efforts,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Unversitätsverlag Winter Journals
Please add Unversitätsverlag Winter Journals to the Knowledge Bases (KBs - Alma CZ, SFX, 360) and Discovery services (CDI - Central Discovery Index).
About: https://journals.winter-verlag.de/
Contact: https://journals.winter-verlag.de/contact
Best regards,
Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Fribourg (Switzerland)15 votesHello,
Per provider's response, they are not interested in sharing metadata for the Knowledge Bases and CDI.
Therefore we can not complete the request.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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qinsight
Please add the following Electronic Collection to the Community Zone:
Qinsight
https://www.quetzal-search.info/homeThe vendor is Quertle, Inc. (https://quertle.com/about/)
Qinsight integrates content from multiple sources, covering almost all biomedical journals, patents (grants and applications), clinical trials, treatment protocols, NIH grant applications, and much more. Qinsight covers over 44 million (and growing) documents. Qinsight is not a federated search engine but rather applies its AI methods to the original content enabling discovery that goes beyond traditional search and natural language processing.
15 votesHello,
The links provided in this idea are no longer valid and we could not trace the requested resource.
Please open a new idea with updated information if it is still relevant.
Thanks for your efforts,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Provide PCI collection updates in Customer Center
Primo Central Index new collection updates are sent in email, which can be easily lost. Provide the monthly update lists in the Customer Center (as is done with SFX weekly updates).
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Next Expected Update date for collections
Similar to the "Last Full Update" and "Last Partial Update" dates for collections, it could cut down on the volume of cases about new individual titles if the collections that get updated on a regular schedule also had "Next Expected Update" date to display.
13 votesHello,
Expected update frequency is not part of any standardized metadata from content providers.
Furthermore, update frequency depends on the content being updated on the platform and due to the nature of the publishing industry, it cannot be committed to in advance. Even regularly updated collections may skip an update cycle because there's no new content added to the collection.
As a result, adding expected update frequency for book collections or journal collections can be misleading as it is hypothetical and may create false expectations.
Therefore, I am closing this idea as 'expected update' cannot be accurately added to collections to create a useful and reliable indication.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Elsevier hybrid Open Access journals
There are several hybrid OA journals - meaning that only some articles are Open Access and most are behind a paywall - in the portfolio ELSEVIERSCIENCEDIRECTOPENACCESSJOURNALS-getFullTxt . Since these are not freely available cover-to-cover, it would be more appropriate to put these in a new service ELSEVIERSCIENCEDIRECTOPENACCESSJOURNALS-getSelectedFullTxt
Attached is a list of several hybrid OA journals on the ScienceDirect platform.
13 votesHello,
Unfortunately Elsevier does not maintain a title list for hybrid Open Access journals, so we cannot create such a collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Scrip Intelligence
Published by Informa Business Intelligence. (with the associated other titles such as pink sheet, etc)
SCRIP Intelligence is a major source of news and analysis for the pharmaceutical industry. We have a subscription to this but would like relevant articles to be discoverable in Summon. I see that it has recently been added to EDS !13 votesHello,
Unfortunately we could not identify the requested resource.
Please open a new idea with link and provider details.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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.
12 votesHello,
We could not obtain a title list for this collection so we will not be able to add it to the Knowledgebases.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Reference Universe
I'd like to request that Ex Libris work with Paratext to integrate Reference Universe metadata into Primo.
12 votesHello all,
We have been in contact with Paratext directly, but due to re-licensing agreement limitations we cannot at this time include the Reference Universe content in our Discovery systems.
We are leaving this door open in the event that Paratext will be able to re-license the content at a later stage, in collaboration with their direct providers.Best,
Rael -
Add Kauppakamari - Finnish Content
Request by Finnish community to add Kauppakamari
11 votesHello,
Unfortunately the provider did not respond so we will not be able to add this content to our knowledge bases and discovery services.
Thanks for your efforts,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add Swank Digital Campus streaming video collection and MARC records to Alma Community Zone (Knowledgebase)
Many college & university libraries lease streaming videos from Swank Digital Campus (https://www.swank.com/digital-campus/), which hosts over 30,000 streaming films, including feature films, documentaries, and TV shows. Because there is no Swank Digital Campus collection in the Alma Community Zone, libraries must create local portfolios and import local MARC records from Swank for all their Swank purchases. This is unnecessary duplicative effort across all Ex Libris libraries.
There should be a Swank Digital Campus collection in the Alma Community Zone with portfolios for all Swank Digital Campus films. Because libraries choose selectively which Swank films to lease, this new…
11 votesHello,
Unfortunately, Swank has limited the metadata they provide to 3 collections only that represent their top 1,500, top 1,000 and top 500 titles.
Also, they are not able to provide MARC records due to contractual constraints.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Article level access to "Medical*Online" for 360Link
It is demanded that article-level access to "MedicalOnline". "MedicalOnline" is the most popular fulltext Database which combine medical journals published in Japan.
11 votesHello,
Requests for linking method changes should be submitted via support case so that we can address them in a timely manner and supply the appropriate feedback and updates.
Thank you,
Rael
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