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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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16 results found

  1. CZ: Keep contributions from Community to bibliographic records, where possible

    The Community Zone is open for contributions by editing bibliographic records in the Community. However, as soon as Ex Libris uploads the same bibliographic records again from the provider, the contributions by the community are overwritten, if the provider sends an identical field. In some cases this is OK (if the providers version is better) in others it is not (when the contributed field was more complete).
    I propose therefore, that the rules for importing updated bibliographic records into the Community Zone by Ex Libris are changed in the following points:
    • If not present, 040 field is added with…

    157 votes
    Planned  ·  3 comments  ·  other  ·  Admin →
  2. Kanopy Streaming PDA

    Please add connections for the Kanopy streaming video database for Discovery (Summon) and the Knowledgebase (360 KB).

    127 votes

    Hello,

    9 Kanopy collection will be added to the Knowledgebases as part of the December 22nd release, a Knowledge article will be published soon with all the details.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar


  3. Editorial Tirant lo Blanch

    Editorial Tirant lo Blanch (https://editorial.tirant.com/es) is one of the main Law content providers in Spanish. The majority of the academic institutions are their customer.

    They produced databases, journals and books, and host them in their platforms (called Tirant Online, Biblioteca Tirant and Nube de Lectura). It would be very interesting to be able to index their contents.

    Adding their resources in the CDI would be very beneficial for all academic institutions studying Spanish Law.

    27 votes
    1 comment  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
  4. new Sage 2024 collections

    Can you please add these new Sage collections that we purchased in early 2024? I am not seeing them in Alma.

    • Sage Business Skills 2
    • SRM Video: Quantitative & Mixed Methods Collection
    • Sage Business Data Decisions
    • Social Justice Collection
    • Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research

    7 votes

    Hello,

    The following collections have been added to the Alma CZ:

    1. SAGE Research Methods Video: Quantitative and Mixed Methods, Collection ID: 614970000000001012
    2. Sage Business Skills Collection 2, 2024 Supplement, Collection ID: 61500647040000041
    3. SAGE Research Methods Video: Quantitative and Mixed Methods, Collection ID: 614970000000001012
    4. SAGE Knowledge Video: Social Justice Collection, Collection ID: 616210000000000109
    5. SAGE Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research, Collection ID: 614970000000001001

    Sage will deliver the title list for Sage Business Data Decisions by end of October 2024.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  5. New York Times - All Access, All Campus

    Good morning,

    Could you please create a Database for The New York Times - All Access, All Campus?

    Provider is "New York Times Company"

    The access URL is https://www.nytimes.com/

    It includes all content on https://www.nytimes.com/ as well as access to all Games and NYT Cooking.

    Thank you for considering!

    Best,
    Amelia Rodarte
    Duke University

    7 votes
  6. united nations : official document system

    https://documents.un.org is a precious source for everyone dealing with research on international politics and this international organization with his subsidiaries and special agencies. It would be great if you could add the content to primo central.

    6 votes
  7. Improve the metadata of Scholarvox Université (Cyberlibris) collections

    The quality of the metadata for the Scholarvox in the CZ is often extremely poor (only title, print ISBN and language is specified as English but the ebooks are in French).

    In other electronic collections , we find records with only electronic ISBN. So it is confusing.

    Find here the Scholarvox Université Collections :

    • ScholarVox Université Arts
    Collection ID : 614920000000003777

    • ScholarVox Université Emploi, métiers et formation
    Collection ID : 614920000000003778

    • ScholarVox Université Géographie
    Collection ID : 614920000000003779

    • ScholarVox Université Histoire
    Collection ID : 614920000000003780

    • ScholarVox Université Informatique
    Collection ID : 614900000000001697

    • ScholarVox Université…

    6 votes

    Hello,

    We have scheduled the enrichment load of Cyberlibris to November 2024.

    For these collections we will not need enrichment from SUDOC.

    Thank you for your patience,

    Tamar

  8. Sage Humanities and Social Sciences Package (HSS) 2025

    Hello,

    Please can the 2025 Sage HSS (Humanities and Social Sciences Package) collection be added to the CZ?

    Attached is a title list from the publisher's website.

    6 votes

    Hello,

    We are expecting to receive the metadata for Sage annual 2025 collections during January 2025.

    Once we have the metadata for this collection, I will update the idea with a timeline.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  9. Ainosco Search

    Good morning,

    Could you please create an Alma CZ Collection for the following resource?

    Name: Ainosco Search
    Provider: Airiti Library
    URL: https://www.ainoscosearch.com/

    Thanks!
    Amelia Rodarte
    Duke University

    6 votes
  10. Add WIT Press eLibrary

    Hello,

    Please consider contacting WIT Press in order to add the WIT Press eLibrary to the Alma CZ and CDI for indexing.

    The WIT Press eLibrary is a fully open access collection of scholarly content on sustainable engineering and environmental engineering.

    https://www.witpress.com/elibrary

    It contains journals and transactions that are all registered with CrossRef (meaning that they have DOIs).

    The transactions are monograph series (have both ISSNs and ISBNs).

    Thanks for considering.

    If you do add this collection, please also incorporate the open access MARC notation for the bibliographic records if you add them to the Alma CZ:

    506 0#$fUnrestricted online…

    3 votes

    Hello,

    I am pleased to inform the the journal and books collections were added to the knowledgebases.

    A legal agreement is being negotiated to add the CDI metadata.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  11. Please add backlist collections for Boydell & Brewer from De Gruyter

    Community zone only has 2024 and 2024 complete ebook collections from De Gruyter for Boydell & Brewer. Please add the backlist years, at least going back to 2000. The ebooks are live on the De Gruyter platform.

    3 votes
  12. Please replace/re-index Biodiversity Heritage Library based on NEW KBART data file

    The Biodiversity Heritage Library (www.biodiversitylibrary.org) has implemented the KBART format. To access BHL’s KBART file, please see: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/data/bhlkbart.txt

    The data here should REPLACE any existing BHL related data within your systems. Any BHL data previously harvested may be of poor quality. Should you have questions or concerns, please go to https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/contact#/comments. Thank you.

    2 votes
  13. New Database Request: The Information

    Please add a new database to the client center for The Information from Lessin Media Company. The starting URL is https://www.theinformation.com. Thank you.

    1 vote
  14. Create Database record for BioDigital Human Studio from Ovid

    Create Database record for BioDigital Human Studio from Ovid

    https://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&CSC=y&PAGE=main&PRODUCT=bds

    This is not currently available in the CZ

    1 vote

    Hello,

    This resource will be added to the Knowledgebases as a zero-title database by end of August 2024.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  15. The 2024 Bloomsbury and Faber Screenplays and Criticism Annual Update

    From Bloomsbury we are told to ask ExLibris for the file to be uploaded to Alma Community Zone. We'd like it to be activated both in Alma Knowledge Base and in Primo CDI. See also case no. 06925486. Please let me know if there is any other way to proceed with updating this collection.
    Contact at Bloomsbury: Gracjana Madejek Gracjana.Madejek@bloomsbury.com

    1 vote
  16. New Database Request: Prefectural Statistics Online

    Please add a new database to the client center for Prefectural Statistics Online (都道府県統計書データーベース) from Japan Digital Archives Center (J-DAC), Tokyo.

    The starting URL is https://j-dac.jp/RISA.

    Thank you.

    1 vote
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