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).
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- 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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Make Article-level Linking Immune to Provider Changes in Consortia Collections
At least in the German-speaking market (feel free to comment below if this is true for your country as well!) it is very common for consortia contracts on e-resource collections that the subscription for any title contained in the collection persists even if that title is subject to a provider change. So, typically, at the very beginning of the contract all titles of the particular collection are hosted by one and the same provider and over the time several titles get acquired by other providers without causing them to drop out of the collection - at least in terms of…
208 votesHello,
We’re currently analyzing the various scenarios related to this request, and believe we can implement a solution that will preserve moved titles within collections, rather than removing them.
This solution will be integrated into our collection addition and update workflows. When title lists are picked up by our automated cycle, any title with a URL that differs from the collection’s parser will be assigned a Bulk::BULKdoi parser to accommodate the change.
Developing a separate process to dynamically match and override collection parsers with dedicated ones isn’t feasible at this time, as the complexity and volume of potential matches would require a significantly more advanced logic framework than we currently support.
I will update this idea once I have a clear timeline.
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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EU Publications
Please consider including the EU publications in the CDI. There are approximately 400,000 text resources published related to the European Union. All texts are open access.
https://op.europa.eu/en/web/general-publications/publications
https://op.europa.eu/en/web/librarians-corner/metadata-services
Contact: OP-REC-EXPORT@publications.europa.eu68 votesHello,
We will reach out to EU Publications, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Retronews
Retronews : Site dedicated to the old press, with more than 400 newspapers, magazines published between 1631 and 1945, 9 million digitized pages and editorial contents. For research teachers and students.
A database produced by the National Library of France.
Thank you to add Retronews to ALMA CZ and PCI.61 votesHello,
We will review the option to add a CDI feed for Retronews with BNF.
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: 6155480302000004155 votesHello,
We were made aware of the availability of MARC records, so we will reach out to Kanopy and ask for them to send us these records.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Add Médiathèque numérique Arte (VOD)
Médiathèque numérique Arte
https://vod.mediatheque-numerique.comVideo on demand: over 5,000 films, documentaries and shows from Arte and UniversCiné.
Videos are in French or subtitled in French language.
For Alma only.
An API is already available : https://mednumv3-backapi.lab.arte.tv/docs/v3/api-docs/simpleCatalogContacts : Lauriane Sudol, l-sudol@artefrance.fr
55 votesHello,
We will reach out to the contact you have provided, and ask for the metadata of this collection.
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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Add Lamyline
Lamyline
https://www.lamyline.frThis is a duplicate and enriched idea from : https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-content/suggestions/33007996-lamyline which has been closed in 2021.
Access to the continuously updated Lamy publisher documentary collection: the official collection (national and EU official texts, treaties, private law case law, public law case law, European case law, administrative authorities), Lamy books and journals in French.
Lamy is a French publisher that doesn't exist in the KB; however, the company is now part of Kluwer: I hope this still makes it a new publisher for you.
Ideally, for Alma and CDI.
contacts : FR-contactlamyline@wolterskluwer.com41 votesHello,
We will reach out to Lamyline, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Suggestion for a Pearson eLibrary platform collection
Unfortunately, there is no eCollection in ALMA yet for the Pearson eLibrary, which is operated by Pearson Germany for university libraries (https://elibrary.pearson.de). This new eBook platform contains important textbooks that we would like to make available to our students.
Please add an eCollection for this Pearson eLibrary platform to our Discovery Indexes, KnowledgeBases and the Alma Community Zone.
39 votesHello,
We will reach out to Pearson, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add Open Access eBooks from the Publisher Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, Germany to the Knowledgebases
The Wallstein Verlag has published a number of open access eBooks in the humanities, and the number is increasing.
It would be fantastic if these OA eBooks could be made available as an eCollection in ALMA.
https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/open-access-books.html
Thanks so much
Best Matthias39 votesHello,
We will reach out to Wallstein Verlag, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
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 -
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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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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Pearson EBS
Pearson has three new EBS packages, a German one, an English one and a combined one. Pearson was not added in the past because ExLibris couldn't get title lists. There are title lists for the EBS packages (see attached). So far there is not a single Pearson collection in the CZ. Please add at least one.
25 votesHello,
The provider responded, we will pick this up and discuss our options.
Once I have an update, I will share it in this idea.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Add the Thesaurus for Graphic Materials to the CZ
Please consider adding this authority vocabulary to the CZ as it is used to enhance records of graphic materials such as photographs, drawings, and other visual works.
https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm2/downloadtgm2.html16 votesHello,
Our cataloging team will review this request and evaluate how we can add this thesaurus to Alma CZ.
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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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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Stem Mucchi editore - OA content
Mucchi Editore publishes open access ebooks and it would be very useful to make them discoverable via Primo VE. Information about the e-books available at:https://mucchieditore.it/catalogo/open-access
Thank you12 votesHello,
This idea has been chosen in the CERV enhancement round for 2025.
We will reach out to this provider, and ask for the metadata for their collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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KU Select 2025-2027 SDG Full Collection
Dear ExLibris Support,
We just pledged to these collections. May we request to add these to ALMA KB? We wanted to put it out there.
Thank you,
Mariyam9 votesHello,
We will reach out to KU and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Aerospace Medical Association (ASMA)
The Aerospace Medical Association is moving their content from Ingenta to KGL Meridian: https://asma.kglmeridian.com/. Once the content is pulled from Ingenta (originally scheduled for removal on 1/1/2025), we want to ensure users can still locate journal articles.
9 votesHello,
We will reach out to KGL Meridian and ask for the metadata for this title.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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