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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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Add Firenze University press open access book collection
Firenze University Press publishes the outcomes of academic research carried out by the University of Florence and by the national scientific community, with the aim at spreading them both at national and international levels.
A certain number of these works are included in the open access catalogue.
All publications are certified by the Editorial Board that coordinates the peer review process.It's possible harvesting data via OAI-PMH.
Info: https://www.fupress.com/openaccess
contact: info@fupress.com
707 votesHello all,
We are excited to share that the Firenze University Press Open Access Books content is now available for Delivery and Discovery in our products.
Many thanks to the community for supporting this request and assisting in the process when needed.
Best,
Rael -
Add Homosaurus to Alma Authority Vocabularies
We would like to suggest adding Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ+ linked data vocabulary to the authority vocabularies in the resource management configuration. The vocabulary is available at https://homosaurus.org/
Homosaurus has received a lot of traction in the past few years as alternative to LCSH for describing resources about the LGBTQ+ community. We add the terms at present in a 650 _7 $a heading $2 homoit.
Adding Homosaurus to the authority vocabularies would help greatly in on-going authority control, rather than managing locally.
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Idunn open access e-books
Idunn open access e-books
We would like to see open access e-books from Universitetsforlaget added as a separate e-collection in Alma CZ. For more details, see this link:
https://www.universitetsforlaget.no/en/boker/apen-tilgangNote that there are two Idunn e-collections in CZ already:
Idunn.no (all Idunn portfolios)
IDUNN Open Acess Journals347 votesHello,
These Idunn collections are now available in our KBs.
We are working with the provider on their platform change.
Best,
Rael
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Academic e-books from Norwegian publishers via Allvit / Bokbasen
The Norwegian academic publishers will be making a large selection of their academic books and publications available as e-books in 2019. This is part of a national effort to strengthen the position of Norwegian as a language used in academic and research publications as well as in bachelor- and master-level studies in Norway.
Bokbasen (https://www.bokbasen.no) is developing an online solution for purchasing and administration of library licenses for these academic e-books from Norwegian publishers, and we would like to have this collection included in Alma ‘s Community Zone.
336 votesHello,
This content is now available in our Delivery products.
Thank you for your contribution!Regarding the holdings – this is under discussion with Bokbasen and will be followed up by the Alma Product team.
Best,
Rael -
Norwegian OA collection within humanities and social sciences
Unit – The Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research are administering an Open Access collection with journals within the humanities and social sciences. We would like this collection to be included in
Alma's Community Zone.Name of the collection: 'Norske OA humsam-tidsskrift'
270 votesHello,
This content is available in the Knowledge Base.
Thank you for your support,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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LibreTexts
We would like to add LibreTexts vast collection of open educational resources (OER) to CDI: https://libretexts.org/
LibreTexts is home to the largest collection of open educational resources online. Adding this resource to CDI would ensure users have access to OER from across a wide variety of disciplines.
236 votesHello,
The CDI feed for LibreTextx is live.
Thanks for your support,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Please quit using print records (or old combo print-electronic records) in the CZ to represent serials in electronic format
My understanding is that the CZ records are to represent electronic formats, but most of them seem to be records for the corresponding print title. ISSNs are either wrong (print, where it should be electronic) or the record has both the print and electronic ISSNs in the $a subfield. The OCLC# is usually that for the print record.
All of this causes problems with matching and dedupping when attempting to import and/or order actual print copies.
Please go to electronic only records for the CZ.
202 votesHello all,
Following extensive analysis and discussions with the CZ Management Group and some internal developments, we are glad to announce that starting in the Alma January 2020 release, the Community Zone will begin to process conversions of CONSER records from print to electronic.
For more information please see the following CKC article:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Content_Corner/Knowledge_Articles/Community_Zone_CONSER_record_conversions_(January_-_March_2020 -
Add AIATSIS thesauri to the CZ subject authority files
As a cataloguer, I would like to see the AIATSIS thesauri made available in the Community Zone authority files for 6XX subject fields.
BENEFITS
- Make it easier for cataloguers to validate AIATSIS subject headings
- Enable routine review and updates of AIATSIS subject headings through the Authority Control Task List
- Enrich Primo searches for end users, using non-preferred terms (especially synonyms for people and language groups)
- Promote AIATSIS thesauri to Australian libraries
While specific libraries can import and manage AIATSIS subject headings as local authorities, I think this vocabulary should be made available in the CZ authority records, since it is…
189 votesHello,
AIATSISP was added as well, thank you for your patience.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Include all Full View HathiTrust (Hathi Trust) content and not just Public Domain
HathiTrust collections are defined by access rights; materials that are fully accessible to users are within their Full View collection, which includes Public Domain, Open Access, Creative Commons, and other materials to which owners have given permissions for access. Materials restricted in access are defined as Limited - Search Only; these materials include those with copyright restrictions. These two categories, Full View and Limited - Search Only can be further refined by geographical region, for US or non-US. Info about access rights is at https://www.hathitrust.org/access_use and info about data files is at https://www.hathitrust.org/data.
The ExLibris CZ (and PCI) collections…
165 votesHello,
We have added the Full View collections to our Delivery and Discovery products.
Thank you for your contribution!
Best,
Rael -
Add Films on Demand Collections to Primo Central Index and Alma Knowledge base
Please Films on Demand Collections to Primo Central Index and Alma Knowledge base
161 votesHello all,
This content is now available in our Delivery and Discovery products.
Thank you,
Rael -
Provide a seamless, timely and automatic workflow for ingesting Jisc KB+ data into the Alma Community Zone.
We subscribe to the majority of our eresource content via nationally negotiated eresource deals (Jisc Collections, WHEEL). Jisc’s KB+ product (https://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/) maintains a knowledgebase which includes comprehensive title and package information for these EResources.
We would like ExLibris to harvest the KB+ title lists from the KB+ publicly accessible export page (https://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/publicExport) on a daily basis to ensure that all new and updated title lists in the Alma Community Zone are identical to the title lists in KB+.
We would like ExLibris to identify the KB+ title lists in the Alma Community Zone with a KB+…
160 votesHello all,
We are very happy to announce that we have released a game-changing API that we worked very closely with KB+ to develop. As part of this API the Ex Libris SFX and Alma products will have an automated process that identifies a new collection by KB+ and automatically creates this new collection in the system, as well as setting up the ongoing updates.
This development took us several months and extensive collaboration with the KB+ team. We have completed testing and plan to monitor this process over the coming months when new collections become available, with an expected turnaround of up to two weeks.Best,
Rael -
Brepolis Databases
Brepols Publishers is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities. The focus of its publications lies in "source-works" from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. By this is meant critical editions of original texts and documents in their original language, reference works such as encyclopaedias, handbooks and bibliographies, as well as monograph studies and cutting-edge research.
The following Brepolis databases (online encyclopedias, handbooks and bibliographies) would significantly enrich the indexes if there were added to Primo Central and Summon:
- L'Année Philologique
- Bibliography of British and Irish History
- International Medieval Bibliography
- Bibliographie…148 votesHello,
We have successfully added L’Année Philologique to our products.
We continue to maintain other Brepolis content in CDI as well.Thank you,
Rael -
Target: Techniques de l'ing?nieur
Please add the collection
{KBI Migration}121 votesHello all,
This collection has been added to Alma and SFX.
A new Idea was created to address the addition of this content to Summon and Primo Central.Thank you for your contribution.
Best,
Rael -
CZ Collection Request: CARE-CRUI SpringerLink Journals
The CARE-CRUI italian consortium has agreed with Springer a version of the "SpringerLink Journals" package tailored for the italian universities participating at the consortium.
This consortium (http://www.crui-risorselettroniche.it/) is the master reference for all the italian universities.
So the italian Alma customers are in the need of a tailored package in the CZ too: say a "CARE-CRUI SpringerLink Journals" package, similar to other localized packages yet present on the CZ ( i.e. "OhioLINK SpringerLink Journals" package).
Please note that at now such package does not exist: all the springerlink journals packages available in the CZ have different content than…
126 votesHello,
This content is now available in our Delivery products (360 KB, SFX KB, Alma CZ).
Thank you for your contribution!
Best,
Rael -
PoPuPS - Portail de Publication de Périodiques Scientifiques
PoPuPS (Portail de Publication de Périodiques Scientifiques -
http://popups.ulg.ac.be) is an open access platform established by the University of Liege Library. It contains more than 5,500 scholarly articles (mostly in French and English) published in 20 OA journals by two Belgian universities. PoPuPS exists already as a target/collection/database in SFX, Alma and 360/Intota and as a collection in Primo Central Index.
PoPuPS can be harvested in OAI-PMH. Please add PoPuPS as a new database in Summon.125 votesContent is now available in Summon
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ORBi - Open Repository and Bibliography
ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography - http://orbi.ulg.ac.be) is the institutional repository of the University of Liege and was launched by the University Library in 2008. Currently, it contains more than 52,200 OA references of scholarly materials of all kinds (articles, book chapters, books, reports, dissertations, presentations...). ORBi has been harvested by Primo Central Index since March 2013 and by EBSCO Discovery Service since July 2016. Open Access contents of ORBi can be harvested in OAI-PMH. Please add ORBi as a new resource in Summon.
124 votesORBi Open Repository has been added to Summon per the suggested idea.
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Add Overdrive to 360 KB and Summon
Many academic libraries are using this product. It would be good to have integrated into discovery systems.
123 votesHello,
OverDrive Ebooks and Audiobooks collection (ID: 61499649300000041) is now available for activation in the Knowledgebases.
Please refer to the Knowledge Article for activation information:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Content/Knowledge_Articles/Alma/Knowledge_Articles/Alma_KB%3A_A_New_OverDrive_Ebooks_and_Audiobooks_Collection
For 360 a different Knowledge Article will be posted shortly, I will add it in the comments once it is released.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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start enrichment process for Hogrefe eBooks (Hogrefe eLibrary)
ExLibris created an automation for updates that will run on a weekly basis and will check for any changes made to the title list by Hogrefe Verlag. However, the metadata are rudimentary. We are missing author or editor, place of publication and publisher in the metadata. This makes it difficult to find out the ebooks in Primo VE.
Hence: could you please start an enrichment process with Hogrefe for their eLibrary eBooks titles?
117 votesHello,
The Ex Libris cataloging team manually improved the records from Hogrefe, and performed enrichment for 1,411 records.
This cannot be automated due to insufficient quality of records, so it is considered as a one-time enrichment effort.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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DONum - Dépôt d’Objets Numérisés
DONum is the repository of the cultural heritage preserved by the universities of French-speaking Belgium. DONum contains mainly items with a high patrimonial, historical or cultural value (manuscripts, incunabula, rare books...). Access is free of charge. See http://donum.bicfb.be
116 votesHello,
With great support from the community we have been able to add this content to our Discovery systems.
Thank you,
Rael -
Include Content-Select Data in PCI / CDI
Please add Collection for discovery:
Content-Select (preselect media) to enhance german language content (Publishers: Beltz, Kohlhammer, Lambertus, MohrSiebeck)114 votesHello,
Preselect books are available in CDI.
Thanks for your support,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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