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  1. Making the peer reviewed icon more accurate

    Articles and journals are marked with the peer reviewed icon in Primo based on information extracted from Ulrichsweb (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Ulrich%27s/Product_Documentation/Searching/Ulrichsweb%3A_Peer-Reviewed_Refereed_Journals_and_Academic_Scholarly_Journals).
    The Peer Review indicator can only be set at the journal level at the moment. If a journal is identified as peer reviewed, or refereed in Ulrichsweb, all articles from this journal will be shown with the peer reviewed icon in Primo.
    However, not all articles in such journals are peer reviewed, meaning the icon sends the wrong information to user, and that this label is not reliable. It can further cause users to lose confidence in the system.…

    799 votes
    11 comments  ·  other  ·  Admin →
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  2. Add Thoth Open Access collection as a Community Zone

    This is a request to add the collection of Diamond OA publications in Thoth (http://www.thoth.pub/) as a Community Zone collection.

    Thoth contains a steadily growing collection of OA publications from scholar-led publishers such as punctum books, Open Book Publishers, meson press, mediastudies.press, and African Minds, and we have been working with UC Santa Barbara Library to make it more accessible to libraries worldwide.

    Creating a dedicated Community Zone would substantially increase access to these OA publishers.

    92 votes
    4 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We will reach out to Thoth (with the address provided in the comment - thank you!), and will review the available metadata to evaluate our options.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  3. Curio.ca from CBC/Radio-Canada

    Please add this streaming video and audio collection for Discovery

    78 votes
    9 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
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  4. 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.eu

    68 votes
    1 comment  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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  5. Editions Weblaw Journals

    Please add Editions Weblaw Journals to the Knowledge Bases (KBs - Alma CZ, SFX, 360) and Discovery services (CDI - Central Discovery Index).
    About: https://www.weblaw.ch/competence/editions_weblaw
    Access URL: https://drsk.weblaw.ch/ ; https://asa.weblaw.ch/ ; https://jusletter.weblaw.ch/ ; https://jusletter-it.weblaw.ch/
    Contact: https://www.weblaw.ch/competence/editions_weblaw -> "Kontact"
    Best regards,
    Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Fribourg (Switzerland)

    65 votes
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  6. 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 votes
    7 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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  7. new e-collection for: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University journals

    Please include journals (listed below) published by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press as target collection in Uresolver and SFX:

    Journal of Civil Engineering and Management;
    Transport;
    Journal of Business Economics and Management;
    Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management;
    International Journal of Strategic Property Management.

    NB these journals 2011–2017 were co-published with Taylor and Francis.

    58 votes
    Under Review  ·  3 comments  ·  Admin →
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  8. Add Médiathèque numérique Arte (VOD)

    Médiathèque numérique Arte
    https://vod.mediatheque-numerique.com

    Video 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/simpleCatalog

    Contacts : Lauriane Sudol, l-sudol@artefrance.fr

    55 votes
    3 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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  9. Indexing Bibliotek.dk

    Please index national database of Denmark, bibliotek.dk.

    Database is already in Intota (Bibliotek.dk (FDS)) and in Alma (Alma Collection ID: 6114022520000041

    DBC recommend us to get the data via DBC OAI repo https://www.dbc.dk/produkter-services/webservices

    DBC OAI Repo
    OAI-service gives access to harvest bibliographic data.
    Documentation: https://github.com/DBCDK/rr-oai/wiki/DBC-OAI-Repo
    The national bibliographic data are freely available and doesn’t need to be authorized. There is a limit of how many records can be harvested at a time, but you can set a script to harvest continuously.

    55 votes
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  10. Kaunas University of Technology Press OA Journal Collection

    Please add the collection of open-access journals published by Kaunas University of Technology Press.
    Most of the articles are written in English, and some are in Lithuanian. There are currently 14 journals in total. The Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform is used.
    Link to the website: https://journals.ktu.edu.
    For more detailed information, please contact by e-mail linas.salelionis@library.lt.

    53 votes
    0 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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  11. 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 votes
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  12. Add Lamyline

    Lamyline
    https://www.lamyline.fr

    This 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.com

    41 votes
    2 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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  13. 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 votes
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  14. 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 Matthias

    36 votes
    0 comments  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
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  15. Please add USGS Publications Warehouse to Primo Central Index/Alma knowledge base

    Please add USGS Publications Warehouse to Primo Central Index and Alma knowledge base. The USGS Publications Warehouse (https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/) is the authoritative index to official, USGS-authored publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Free full-text access to over 80,000 new and historic USGS publications is available, and new documents are added daily as new USGS reports are published and historic reports are digitized and made available online.

    36 votes
    1 comment  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
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  16. 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.com

    30 votes
    1 comment  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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  17. Please add Arthistoricum.net

    Please add Arthistoricum.net with portfolios to the ckb.
    https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog

    Thank you and kind regards

    30 votes
    2 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    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

  18. "Architectural Institute of Japan Search System (日本建築学会論文等検索システム - 機関定額制)" for discovery

    "Architectural Institute of Japan Search System (日本建築学会論文等検索システム - 機関定額制)" is a database managed by Architectural Institute of Japan.
    It contains many publications published by Architectural Institute of Japan.
    Some of journals has been covered by existing databases like IRDB, J-STAGE but this database includes not only academic journals but also conference reports or any other type of contents, and they are not searchable on discovery.

    https://www.aij.or.jp/paper/search.html

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

    25 votes
    0 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    This request has been selected as part of the 2025 CERV votes.

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

    If you can share a designated contact person with this provider, that would be much appreciated.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  19. Add Xerfi Knowledge

    Xerfi Knowledge
    https://www.xerfiknowledge.com

    French-language platform for sector studies.
    It contains several hundred studies on all markets in France and around the world, updated every year ; tens of thousands of company analyses, hundreds of business reports, forecasts on sectors.
    Xerfi Knowledge platform can be subscribed in full or by sub-section : Emploi, Precepta, Research, Prevision, Groupes, Global.
    Ideally, several Alma collections could be created.

    Contacts : Alexandre MENDES, amendes@xerfi.fr ; Ouassila TOUlOUI, otouioui@xerfi.fr

    17 votes
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  20. 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 Libraries

    15 votes
    4 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    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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