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For more information please review our FAQ and guidelines. Thank you.
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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.
303 votesHello all,
Thank you for your contribution.
We will investigate this resource and consider adding this Authority to our list of available volcabularies.
Best,
Rael
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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,
We would like to update that we are actively discussing with the provider in preparation for ingesting this content.
Thank you for your contribution!
Best,
Rael -
Add OA flag to Community Zone Open Access ebook collections where they are missing
Some Alma CZ ebook e-collections do not include a MARC 506 field that would add the OA flag to Primo search results. This means that these titles are not included in the Open Access facet under Availability - even though the names of the e-collections state that they are open access.
Eg:Project Euclid Open Access Monographs
Bloomsbury Open Access
Brillonline Open Access Books
International Monetary Fund eLibrary Open Access
JSTOR Books Open Access
Project Muse Open Access Books
Smithsonian Research Online - Open Access (Smithsonian)
Taylor & Francis eBooks Open Access
Walter De Gruyter: Open Access eBooksPlease consider…
181 votesHello all,
We are actively discussing the 506 field with the Community Zone Management Group to determine the best next steps for this metadata for ebook content.
As we make progress, I will update here what our plans are.
Thank you for your contribution!
Best,
Rael
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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: 3506101 votesHello,
Thank you for this contribution!
We will review this request and determine whether this content can be indexed in CDI.Best,
Rael -
100 votes
Hello,
We are currently in discussions with GPO to progress this request.
We will provide further details as soon as available.Best,
Rael -
Open Textbook Catalog: Please use direct feed of MARC records from https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/discovery
In the CZ there is an existing collection (613790000000001601) for the Open Textbook Catalog.
Compared to the MARC records available at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/discovery the CZ collection has fewer titles (651 vs 766 as of 07/13/2020).
Also the CZ bibliographic records are extremely brief and usually have nothing more than a title in the 245 field. The bib records from open.umn.edu are fuller with author, title, publisher, content and summary notes and subject headings.
This request is to ask Exlibris to use the publicly available MARC bib records from the open.umn.edu website to enhance the existing CZ collection.
Thank you.
-Marcus
98 votesHello,
Thank you for raising this request.
We will check if a signed agreement is required here in order to start the analysis and then will prioritize for future acquisition.Best,
Rael -
Kanopy Streaming PDA
Please add connections for the Kanopy streaming video database for Discovery (Summon) and the Knowledgebase (360 KB).
95 votesHello,
We have renewed contact with Kanopy and hope to make progress to renew the feeds to our systems as well.
We will update here and via NERS (if voted upon) with our progress.
Best,
Rael -
F-Mesh in MARC21
F-Mesh is a bilingual French/English version of the Medical Subject Headings (Mesh).
We are a French speaking Library network using MARC21. We were very happy to hear that Alma now includes F-Mesh as a subject headings vocabulary. However, as it is available only in UNIMARC, we cannot use it. If you are in the same situation, then don’t hesitate to vote for this Idea!90 votesHello,
We are currently reviewing this request to ingest this vocabulary in the desired format.
Thank you,
Rael -
Missing target "TECTUM_ELIBRARY"
Dear support
Referring to the Salesforce Case 593244 there is a need for a new target for Ebooks in the Tectum E-library.
Therefor I kindly ask you to create a target TECTUM_ELIBRARY
The URL to the collection is the following: http://www.tectum-elibrary.de/
Thank you and kind regards
Marianne Cathomen
Zentralbibliothek Zürich78 votesHello,
We have added this request for outreach to the provider in the hopes of including this content in our systems.
Thank you,
Rael -
Add Urbadoc database to Primo Central index
Urbadoc bibliographic database indexes european architectural journals and can enrich PCI with unique references.
It would be very useful to have this database searchable in Primo Central Index.
Urbadoc has an OAI-PMH data provider. More info at: http://www.cnba.it/2017/09/28/novita-urbadoc/
Urbadoc URL: http://www.urbadoc.com76 votesHello,
We will review this request for consideration.
Best,
Rael -
Encyclopaedia Universalis, with availability type "Link resolver"
Encyclopaedia Universalis collection already exists in PCI, but the availability type is "Link in Record". It makes it impossible for patrons to access the fulltext.
The availability should be "Link resolver", so the library can manage its proxy settings in the link resolver.74 votesHello,
Thank you for this feedback. We will review the linking method and update on our findings.
Best,
Rael -
NERS 2021 - CrossAsia / xasia - eBooks, eJournals, Repository
Please add the CrossAsia / xasia collections to Alma CKB, SFX and/or PCI/CDI:
xasia
https://digital.crossasia.org/?lang=enAlma CKB, SFX, PCI/CDI:
xasia eBooks
https://crossasia.org/service/crossasia-e-publishing/crossasia-ebooks/
https://crossasia-books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/xasia?lang=enxasia eJournals
https://crossasia.org/service/crossasia-e-publishing/crossasia-ejournals/
(some e-journals are already in the Alma CKB, SFX: E-Collection "Open Journal System Heidelberg")PCI/CDI:
xasia Repository
https://crossasia.org/service/crossasia-e-publishing/crossasia-repository/
http://crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/NERS 2021 Request ID: 7528
67 votesHello,
This is a NERS 2021 request currently being processed.
There is no need to vote for this.
Best,
Rael -
Add Unebook Collection to ALMA CZ
Please add Unebook collection to the Community Zone. Unebook is the collection of books from all Spanish university publishers.
63 votesHello,
Thank you for your contribution.
We will review this request for consideration in 2022, to be added to our Knowledgebase products.If any members of the community have a known contact person, please send their details to me directly.
Best,
Rael -
HOPE
Open access platform of the University of Zurich.
URL: http://www.hope.uzh.ch/62 votesHello,
Thank you for your contribution!
We have added this request to our plans for outreach and will update as soon as we have more information.Best,
Rael -
British Online Archives
Records for publications contained in British Online Archives should be added to Primo Central. The resource is published by Microform Academic Publishers and is available at https://www.britishonlinearchives.co.uk/
There are a number of collections within this resource (about 60). I am not sure whether all subscriptions offer the full range of content or whether the separate collections will need to be managed within Primo Central.
They have full-text indexing of the materials so ideally this would be available in Primo Central too.
58 votesHello all,
We have reached an agreement with the provider and will begin working with them on the ingestion of this content.
Thank you,
Rael -
Jisc Historical Texts - Eighteenth Century Collections Parts 1 and 2
The original idea is now marked as completed - https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-content/suggestions/19523596-jisc-historical-texts
However, There should be over 180,000 books in ECCO. It is ECCO parts 1 and 2. There are only 66,000 portfolios in the CZ at the moment. Can the remaining portfolios be added as a matter of urgency please?
57 votesHello,
We will investigate the title count discrepancy here.
For future reference, please note that this should have been submitted as a Support Case, so that our team can investigate.
Best,
Rael -
Need two CZ Selective Packages for 'Westlaw Thomson Reuters' database
It would be useful to have two Selective Packages for the ‘Westlaw Thomson Reuters’ database. One Selective package for ‘International’ content, and another for ‘US’ content.
At our library we provide a link to each of the two ‘sides’ of the database, as Article Title searches on each ‘side’ produce different results, depending on which ‘side’ the article is found. If an article is in the ‘US’ side, it can be found by an Article Title search on the ‘US’ side, but not on the ‘International’ side (and vice versa). (Journal Title searches allow the journal to be found the…
54 votesHello,
Thank you for explaining this use-case. We will approach the provider and discuss our options to address this matter.
Thank you,
Rael
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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.53 votesHello,
We will review this request for indexing in CDI.
Thank you for your contribution!
Best,
Rael -
Think Tank Repository
The Think Tank Repository of the Library of Council of the European Union monitors worldwide the publications of 250 Think Tanks on EU affairs. It is a precious and useful ressource of literature.
http://ec.europa.eu/eclas/F/?func=find-a-0&local_base=TTR44 votes -
Add Perlego collections for the Knowledgebase (Alma CZ)
Consider to add the Perlego collection to the CZ of Alma.
The vendor provides an online library of academic resources with over 400,000 titles in several topics.
Many international publishers are participate in the collection which can be very useful for academic institutions especially for textbooks.
41 votesHello,
We will review this request for addition to our Delivery products.
Thank you for your contribution.
Best,
Rael
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