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  1. Please add open access journals vendor eLife. https://elifesciences.org/

    We would like to add journal provider eLife to CKB.

    https://elifesciences.org/

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  2. CSU Merlot and OER Commons

    MERLOT: (https://www.merlot.org/merlot/)
    OER COMMOMS(https://www.oercommons.org/)

    Is it possible to add these collections to the CZ?

    9 votes
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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  3. Add TGC Books Play Collection

    A collection from TGC Books, the largest independent trade publisher of dramatic literature in North America.

    The collection includes 18 winners of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, and also boasts a diverse range of voices which are often overlooked in less contemporary collections.

    Our drama students are always looking for newer plays available in a digital format - and with the exception of this collection, the CZ in Alma has most of the collections available from Drama Online. This would be a welcome addition.

    Many thanks,
    Olivia

    https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/tcg-books-play-collection

    9 votes
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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  4. Add eBooks from Reichert Media Library to Knowledgebase

    Please add content from Reichert Media Library (https://medialibrary.reichert-verlag.de/) to the Knowledgebase.

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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  5. Add CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute) journals to a CZ e-collection

    I would like to see a CZ for CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute Journals added and maintained in the Alma Community Zone so that these freely available law journals can be found by the increasing number of Canadian academic libraries using Alma/Primo.

    https://www.canlii.org/en/commentary/journals/

    Thanks. Sandra.

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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  6. OA Journal Medialex

    Please consider to add the content of Medialex, a Swiss specialist journal for media and communications law (ISSN 2504-1479). It has been published since 1995 and is available in Open access: https://medialex.ch/archiv/
    Currently, only some articles are available in the CDI from 2017 but all content is available in OA.
    For content details and metadada, please contact redaktion@medialex.ch

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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We currently don't receive any metadata from Medialex.

    Their content is available in CDI through DOAJ, and as this is a new provider, it will need to go through the CERV (previously NERS) voting cycle.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  7. Add Open Access eBooks from the publisher intercom Verlag, Zürich into the Alma Community Zone

    The young publishing house intercom Verlag at Zürich (Switzerland) is publishing Open Access ebooks in the Humanities.
    It would be great to add an eCollection of these ebooks to the Community Zone in Alma to make these fine books available.
    https://intercomverlag.ch/about/
    https://www.intercom-mono.com/

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  8. African Journals Initiative (AJI)

    Please could you add the African Journals Initiative (AJI) to the CZ?

    https://www.plutojournals.com/african-journals-initiative/

    Thanks

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  9. Add MJS(Medical Journals Sweden) Publishing journals on KB & CZ

    MJS publishing launched in 2021 and publishes several medical society journals from Sweden.
    You would find titles from MJS publishing below.
    https://www.mjspublishing.se/journals

    All of them are Gold Open Access.

    I hope those journals will be included KB & CZ soon for better content accessibility.

    Thank you.

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  10. Hagen University Press

    On the document server deposit_hagen of the FernUniversität in Hagen, qualified scientific publications by members of the FernUniversität as well as digital collections of the University Library Hagen are made available online to the worldwide specialist public free of charge and without access restrictions (Open Access).

    I would appreciate it if the content would be searchable in CDI.

    https://ub-deposit.fernuni-hagen.de/content/index.xml

    Contact: publizieren.ub@fernuni-hagen.de

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  11. Create a CZ Collection for Audio Cine Films (ACF)

    Please add a CZ collection for Audio Cine Films (ACF) in Alma. Almost half of the IZ's in our consortia subscribe to this resource.

    https://www.acf-film.com/en/index.php

    From the vendor: Audio Cine Films Inc. is one of the largest non-theatrical (markets outside commercial theatres) film rights representative in Canada, with exclusive rights to one of the largest film libraries available. We manage copyrights related to the public presentation of films produced by the studios we exclusively represent in Canada and issue copyright licenses that allow all types of organisations to present films within a public performance environment without infringing upon the Canadian…

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  12. tgni@dtu.dk

    Oersi
    https://oersi.org/
    OERSI, the Open Educational Resources Search Index, is a search engine for open educational resources in higher education, provided jointly by the University Library Center of North Rhine-Westphalia (hbz) and the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library since 2020.

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  13. Add Polity Press open access ebooks

    Please add Polity press open access ebooks (SSH & Humanities) to Alma and CDI.
    https://www.politybooks.com/oa/

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

    Hello,

    This request has been selected as part of the 2026 CERV votes.

    We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for this collection.

    If you could share a contact person with this provider, that would be very helpful.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  14. OpenAlex

    OpenAlex is one of the largest OA databases available, and it would be valuable to have OpenAlex added.

    https://openalex.org/

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

    Hello,

    This request has been selected as part of the 2026 CERV votes.

    We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for this collection.

    If you could share a contact person with OpenAlex, that would be very helpful.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  15. Please add collection "Biographie-Portal" to the Alma CZ

    Dear support

    Can you create an electronic collection of type "database" for "Biographie-Portal" (https://www.biographie-portal.eu//), please?

    Description according to the publisher's website:

    "The “Biographical Portal” is a cooperative project of the Bavarian State Library, the Historical Committee at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Foundation Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. A joint index makes available the following works:

    Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB)
    Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB)
    Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 (ÖBL)
    Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS),
    Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas,
    Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon (OeML)
    Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank (RPPD)
    Sächsische Biografie (SäBi)
    Slovenska biografija…

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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  16. JMIR Publications

    Please add JMIR Publications to the KB's. An Open Access publisher in the medical field.
    https://jmirpublications.com/
    It would be helpful to have the 30 + journals in it's own collection.
    Contact email: support@jmir.org

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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  17. Add the OA Journal, "Procesos de Mercado. Revista Europea de Economía Política" to the KB

    Please add the OA Journal, "Procesos de Mercado. Revista Europea de Economía Política" to the KB

    Title: Procesos de Mercado. Revista Europea de Economía Política
    ISSN: 1697-6797
    URL: https://www.procesosdemercado.com/index.php/inicio/issue/archive

    Thank you!

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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  18. Add journal, Relational Child and Youth Care Practice to the CZ

    Please add the journal, Relational Child and Youth Care Practice (RCYCP, ISSN: 2410-2954) to the CZ.
    Vendor's site: https://www.rcycp.com/

    The open access journal from the same publisher (CYC-NET) is in the CZ but we aren't able to find RCYCP.

    We see some CDI records for articles in the journal but aren't able to identify which portfolio/collection they're connected to.
    For example: cdiproquestjournals_2434256972

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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  19. Add "Intertek Inform" content (formerly SAI Global Standards Australia)

    Our patrons search regularly for specific Australian standards in our Primo environment, and experience Zero Results.

    We have a Database record, but this is not a good discovery experience when the patron may not know the name of the platform.

    This is particularly an issue with the rebranding in January 2024 from SAI Global Standards Australia to Intertek Inform.

    Some examples from our analytics data:
    AS 2243.4-1998 - Standards Australia
    AS/NZS 3921:1998
    AS/NZS1680.1
    AS1158 wiring rules

    Please add this content to Ex Libris content systems to support ease of discovery.

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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This idea has been closed by mistake, I apologize for the inconvenience.

    It will be reviewed and addressed according to the regular workflow of content requests.

    My sincere apologies.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  20. Add Publisher Press Books to 360 KB

    We are hoping to add the open access ebook "Unlocking the Digital Age: The Musician's Guide to Research, Copyright, and Publishing" in the 360KB but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be listed anywhere.
    URL: https://pressbooks.pub/musicresearch/
    I am wondering if it is possible to add the provider Pressbooks to the KB so that this title can be added.
    Please let me know if you need any other information.
    Thanks,
    Alaina Deane
    ERM Specialist
    Duke University Libraries

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