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.
- Choose the right category: "New Provider" for content from a provider that has no available content in the KBs or CDI, or "Existing Provider" for content from a provider that already has content available in the KBs or CDI.
- 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
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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.…797 votesThanks for the examples - we will review them and discuss our options.
Best,
Tamar
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Austlit - Australian Literature Resource
Add Austlit to Primo Central Index.
A premier resource for research on Australian literature. A searchable, scholarly source of authoritative biographical, bibliographic, critical, and production information about Australian writers and writing. Includes full text of 200 works of Australian fiction and poetry, selections of children's literature, anthology of criticism, critical articles, review and surveys, and 300 items of early science fiction.https://www.austlit.edu.au/
Info on full text: https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/5961938
Publisher: AustLit
Contact: info-austlit@austlit.edu.au
NERS Request ID: 350699 votesHello,
After a meeting with Austlit it is clear there is more efforts required for preparing the file for adding it to CDI.
We will have more updates during the coming months and probably have a more accurate timeline during Q3.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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LEGALIS
Thank you to add to ALMA CZ and PCI the electronic collection LEGALIS.
Editor : Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag
https://www.helbing.ch
CONTENTS : legal commentaries (Basler Kommentare), journals, decisions, laws in German
Journals included :
-Privatrecht
-Zivilprozessrecht
-Strafrecht
-Wirtschaftsrecht
-Steuerrecht
-Verfassungsrecht
-Versicherungsrecht
-Commentaire Romand
-ius.focus
-Die Praxis
-SZZP/RSPC
-Der Steuerentscheid
See https://www.legalis.ch/99 votesHello,
We will reach out to the provider and ask metadata for Legalis.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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.
91 votesHello,
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
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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.
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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 votesHello,
We will review this request for indexing in CDI.
Thank you for your contribution!
Best,
Rael -
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 votesHello Linas,
We will reach out to you shortly to discuss the delivery of the metadata.
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 the Bridget Williams Books collections to Primo Central Index
As a student and researcher of New Zealand materials I would like the books published by Bridget Williams Books to be indexed in Primo Central Index.
Background: Currently the content of these collections is not discoverable in Primo. This makes it harder to discover key New Zealand content and impacts the efficiency of my study and research capabilities.
49 votesHello,
We received an update that the provider is now able to send us metadata.
I will update the idea once I have more information.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Curio.ca from CBC/Radio-Canada
Please add this streaming video and audio collection for Discovery
45 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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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.
39 votesHello,
We will reach out to USGS and ask for discovery metadata.
Kind regards,
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 -
Please add bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/ to Primo Central
bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.
30 votesHello,
We are checking options on adding bioRxiv metadata to CDI.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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"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 votesHello,
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
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Add SocArXiV as CDI collection
Can SocArXiV be added as a CDI collection? https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv Thanks!
16 votesHello,
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
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Add Taiwan e-magazine platform- KONO Libraries into Alma CZ & CDI
We would like to add a e-magazine platform- KONO Libraries to ALMA CZ and CDI. Here is the title list - https://library.thekono.com/kono_lab/libraries/chinese.
15 votesHello,
We will reach out to KONO and ask for the metadata.
Please be advised that for discovery purposes, there are legal agreement requirements, so it might take longer than expected.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Brepols Open Access eBooks
Brepols Publishing publishes open access ebooks and it would be useful to make them discoverable via Primo VE. Alma’s Community Zone does not have a distinct collection for this content. Information about the books, along with an option to export the titles into an Excel spreadsheet, is available at https://www.brepols.net/products?p=1&r=12&s=&v=thumbview&q=$Availability:Open%20Access;$ProductType:Book
14 votesHello,
We will reach out to Brepols, and ask for the metadata of this collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Connect database (Editions Diamond)
Please add the Connect (Editions Diamond) database to the Knowledge Bases (KBs - Alma CZ, SFX, 360) and Discovery services (Primo CDI).
About: https://connect.ed-diamond.com/a-propos-connect
Access URL: https://connect.ed-diamond.com/
Language of the content: French
Contact: https://connect.ed-diamond.com/contact14 votesHello,
This idea has been selected in the NERS voting process to be pursued as a new content provider.
We will check with Editions Diamond if they can provide us with metadata for the Knowledgebases and CDI.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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More Gale Historical Collections
Could you please add the following Gale Historical databases to the Primo Central Index as individual collections?
British Library Manuscripts Part I and II
Luso-Brazilian History and Culture: Oliveira Lima Library I & II
Chatham House Online Archive I & II
Early Arabic Printed Books Religion & Law
Early Arabic Printed Books Science & History
Early Arabic Printed Books Christian Literature
Early Arabic Printed Books Literature Hosting
Financial Times Historical Archive
Illustrated London News
The Independent Newspaper, London 1986-2016 Hosting
World Scholar: Latin America And The Caribbean Hosting
Liberty Magazine1924-50 Hosting
The Listener Historical Archive Hosting
19th Century US Newspapers…13 votesHello,
Most of the collections are available in the KBs.
The missing ones are:
- British Library Manuscripts Part I and II
- Luso-Brazilian History and Culture: Oliveira Lima Library I & II
- Early Arabic Printed Books Religion & Law
- Early Arabic Printed Books Science & History
- Early Arabic Printed Books Christian Literature
We will reach out to Gale to establish a feed for these collections.
Thanks for your support,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add Essential Primary Sources (Schlager Digital Library)
Please add to CDI:
Name of Collection: Essential Primary Sources
Platform: Schlager Digital Library
URL: https://library.schlagergroup.com/
Language: English13 votesHello,
We will reach out to Schlager, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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