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).
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642 results found
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Enrich metadata for Cambridge eBooks without Partner Presses: 2025 All eBooks
We have noticed that many books in the Cambridge eBooks without Partner Presses: 2025 All eBooks collection have very poor metadata. Here are a few examples from our library:
https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/k9bh95/alma991107601734406196,
https://utoronto.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/k9bh95/alma991107591035006196
https://utoronto.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/k9bh95/alma991107607460306196
https://utoronto.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/k9bh95/alma991107607460806196
https://utoronto.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/k9bh95/alma991107579864506196
https://utoronto.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/k9bh95/alma991107582319506196
https://utoronto.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/k9bh95/alma991107610864306196
https://utoronto.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/k9bh95/alma991107582322006196
These examples are just from the first two pages (of 63) search results, so I suspect there are many more like this. Could Ex Libris ask the vendor to supply fuller records for these books? Thank you!6 votesHello,
Cambridge UP provides us with enrichment files on a monthly basis. These records may be newer additions and therefore might not have been enriched by the current feed yet.
Overall, the average Bib ranking for this collection is 87.35, which is considered good. Since most records in this collection are of high quality and these cases appear to be exceptions, I believe this issue should be reported via a support ticket, as it seems to be a specific error rather than an indication that a new enrichment feed is needed.
I kindly ask you to open a support ticket and appreciate your continued efforts in maintaining the high quality of the CZ.
Please share the case number with me so I can follow up on the analysis of these titles.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico - free ebooks
would it be possible to add the following e-book to the CZ?
https://literatura.unam.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DLFL-UNAM-CHINA-arcoiris-en-una-rafaga-de-viento.pdf"Arcoíris en una ráfaga de viento"
I see other publications by this provider in various collections but would love to see this freely available ebook added.
2 votesHello,
This resource could be added to the Community Zone collection: Miscellaneous Free eBooks – collection ID 611000000000001091.
I would recommend reading the Knowledge Article that details best practices to add titles to this collection
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Content/Knowledge_Articles/Alma/Best_Practices_for_Contributing_Portfolios_To_Community-Managed_Electronic_Collections_In_The_Alma_Community_Zone
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add HeinOnline collections
Please add 3 additional collections to the CZ:
Acts of the Parliament of Canada
Criminal Justice in America: U.S. Attorney General
Opinions, Reports, and Publications1 voteHello,
Hein confirmed they do not have metadata for the Acts of the collection: Parliament of Canada.
Please use the bundled collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Oxford University Press Law Trove 2025 Complete Plus Criminology European Version
I can see that Tamar expects the title list to be available towards the end of 2025 Q3. We have the list now :-) I'm raising this specifically as a request for the European version as I think that took longer to create in 2024 so I'm hoping it can be released simultaneously with the non-European one. Thank you.
3 votesHello,
OUP confirmed they will not make this title list available in the Knowledgebases.
Please reach out directly to me if you have any concerns.
Kind regards,
Tamar
tamar.ganor@clarivate.com
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Souls Journal
Please consider adding "SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Journal" as a new OA portfolio. It has switched publishers from Taylor & Francis to Columbia University and is now fully OA. URL link is here: https://www.soulsjournal.org/
Thank you in advance,
Sarah Wakefield
Electronic Resources LibrarianWaidner-Spahr Library
Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA7 votesHello,
This resource could be added to the Community Zone collection: Free E- Journals, Collection ID: 61110976638852340
I would recommend reading the Knowledge Article that details best practices to add titles to this collection
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Content/Knowledge_Articles/Alma/Best_Practices_for_Contributing_Portfolios_To_Community-Managed_Electronic_Collections_In_The_Alma_Community_Zone
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Docuseek Canadian Collection
Please update the content in the Docuseek Canadian Collection (FBCOY). According to Docuseek, we are subscribed to 3201 portfolios in their collection and only have access to 2455 through this package (and 383 through a different collection, which is fine). The CZ collection only has 2455 titles.
6 votesHello,
For updating existing collections, please open a support ticket.
This allows us better tracking and communicating with you and the provider.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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ARL Annual Salary Survey 2023 & 2024
Please add the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2023 & 2024, these are the most current years from the ARL.
https://publications.arl.org/ARL-Annual-Salary-Survey-2023/
https://publications.arl.org/ARL-Annual-Salary-Survey-2024/3 votesHello,
Following our discussion with the provider, the appropriate solution would be to add these reports as portfolios within the collection ARL Publications, Collection ID: 614900000000001230.
The titles would be updated by end of January 2026.
The separate annual reports will be removed as stand-alone databases.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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BookRail paired fields
The provider BookRail has a large catch-all CZ collection (613450000000000025). We're making selective purchases and managing them via the CZ. The vendor is able to provide romanized author/title fields in the title lists that they send to us, but those fields are not part of the metadata available in the CZ records. We'd love it if Ex Libris could work with the provider to see if they could provide romanized paired fields for all titles in that collection and update the records accordingly.
4 votesHello,
We have received the following response from BookRail: They confirmed that they are currently unable to provide complete Romanized metadata (titles and author names) for all books in the collection. Only a portion of the metadata is available at this time, and it will take additional time for them to complete the updates.
We will continue to monitor this and follow up with the provider when further updates become available.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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DEAD SEA SCROLLS ELECTRONIC LIBRARY (Brill)
Please create a new electronic collection DEAD SEA SCROLLS ELECTRONIC LIBRARY with the URL https://scholarlyeditions.brill.com/library/urn:cts:ancJewLit:dss
containing the following 3 portfolios as described in the link I shared above:- Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Non-Biblical Texts
- Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Biblical Texts
- Codex Leningradensis
The individual parts can already be found in Alma, but not as part of the "Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library" yet.
Best,
Igor6 votesHello,
Brill has confirmed that the following resources are sold individually, not as part of a bundle:
- Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library: Non-Biblical Texts
- Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library: Biblical Texts
Accordingly, there is no title list available for a combined “bundle,” and each resource must be activated separately from Brill’s Scholarly Editions Collection (Collection ID: 615460000000000307).
Brill also confirmed that there are no separate details available for Codex Leningradensis, as it is an add-on to the Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Biblical text, and is not sold independently.
Therefore, we will not be creating a new collection as you suggested.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Alma Community Zone Collection for "Scite.Ai"
Scite.Ai is an AI-Tool, to support AI for Research: Discover facts, figures, and relevant research from the world's largest collection of full-text scholarly content.
3 votesHello,
The use case for adding an AI tool as a collection in the Alma CZ is unclear.
Since it is neither a resource that qualifies as a collection or database, nor does it provide curated or managed content, it seems more appropriate to treat it as a research tool to be added locally—either within the IZ or on a library webpage.
If you have a different perspective, please feel free to contact me directly at
tamar.ganor@clarivate.com.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Archiv fur Diplomatik Schriftgeschichte Siegel und Wappenkunde- request to add to ALMA CZ
Dear Support,
May I request to add this series as a collection? The URL is https://www.vr-elibrary.de/series/archMariyam
3 votesHello,
De Gruyter does not have a title list for this book series so we cannot represent it as a stand-alone collection.
The book series volumes are available in the following collection and need to be activated through this collection:
Vandenhoeck And Ruprecht Complete
Collection ID 613720000000002108
Kind regards,
Tamar
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EBSCOhost Publicly Available eBooks
From what I can tell, titles in the Publicly Available eBooks List (see attached file) are only available in the EBSCOhost eBooks collection. They do not appear to be available in the EBSCOhost eBook Open Access collection.
Is it possible that these publicly available titles can be added to the Open Access collection or, if not appropriate, put into their own separate collection? This helps by allowing Alma users to keep freely available/OA titles separate from purchased content if they wish.
7 votesHello,
Issues with existing collections should be reported through support cases, so they can be handled efficiently with the appropriate teams.
Since this is a request to modify an existing collection, please open a support ticket in SalesForce.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Add the 2024 conference proceedings for the Colombian Conference on Applications of Computational Intelligence to IEEE Xplore collection
The prior years for this conference are included in IEEE Xplore, but 2024 is not.
4 votesHello,
Issues with existing collections should be reported through support cases, so they can be handled efficiently with the appropriate teams.
Please open a support ticket in SalesForce.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society - 2018
Volume 256 2018's six issues (1225-1230) are missing from electronic collection:
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society 2018
Can you please add them?
https://www.ams.org/books/memo/year/2018/4 votesHello Naavah,
Thanks for the update, I am closing this idea if it's being fixed by AMS.
In future, issues with existing collections should be reported through support cases, so they can be handled efficiently with the appropriate teams.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society - 2023
Regarding the collection:
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society - 2023
Volume 286-292 are missing (about 40 portfolios)
Please check. Thank you.4 votesHello Naavah,
Thanks for the update, I am closing this idea if it's being fixed by AMS.
In future, issues with existing collections should be reported through support cases, so they can be handled efficiently with the appropriate teams.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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ASTM Digital Library
ASTM (American Society of Testing and Materials) has moved the ASTM Digital Library to a new platform which will include ASTM Journals, Books (Manuals, Monographs, Data Series, and Technical Reports), Conference Proceedings (Selected Technical Papers). It will not include ASTM Standards. The new URL for this platform is https://dl.astm.org.
Can you please add to the Alma CZ? Thank you!
4 votesHello,
There are two new collections to reflect the migration:
"ASTM Books in ASME Digital Library" (ID: 61546197590000041) and "ASTM Journals in ASME Digital Library" (ID: 61546197570000041).
Please track the Known Issues portal for future updates.
https://support.proquest.com/s/known-issues/knowledge-detail?recordId=kA2QO0000000Y4v0AE&language=en_US
Kind regards,
Tamar
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wiley digital archives - Commonwealth Forestry Archive (within the Environmental Science and History archive)
Hello,
The Wiley Digital Archive - Environmental Science and History has a portfolio within called called Commonwealth Forestry Archive (CFA). I wondered if it would be possible to make this a top level collection with the digitised items within it as portfolios, i.e. one portfolio per Reference Code maybe? http://WDAgo.com/s/e4a7bfe7
Many thanks for your consideration
Ruth3 votesHello,
Wiley will not provide us with a stand-alone database metadata for this resource, and they advised that activating this through Wiley Digital Archive - Environmental Science and History collection (DBID: BDYDR, collection ID: 5400000000000436) would provide the CDI records in the Discovery layer.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Enrich CZ MARC records for CRL (Center for Research Libraries) collections
CRL (Center for Research Libraries) has provided metadata to Ex Libris, which has been used to create CZ collections with MARC bibliographic records and portfolios. However, these collections have very poor MARC bibliographic metadata. I suspect they were created by KBART file uploads. Because many of the resources in these collections are older digitized materials, they lack identifiers such as ISSNs and ISBNs and are thus unlikely to join to robust existing CZ records (nor are they likely to be overlaid by provide record loads or CONSER records).
Could Ex Libris please work with CRL to enrich the MARC bibliographic…
19 votesHello,
We recently explored this option, and received a response from CRL in February 2025 stating that CRL is not interested in providing CRL MARC records for bibliographic enrichment at this time. It would not be in keeping with agreements they have in place.
Therefore we will not be able to enrich these collections.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Enrichment of Community Zone bibliographic records for DOAB
Enrich and update the DOAB bibliographic records in CZ.
1 voteHello,
DOAB currently has Bibliographic Rank Average:76.51 which is considered a good average.
We are using the MARC records available, and currently there is no more enrichment that can be done from these records.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Liverpool University Press Archive collection
please include the portfolio, the archive for French Studies, ISSN : 1468-2931 ; coverage: 1947-1995 https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/fs
3 votesHello,
After further discussions with Liverpool UP, it appears that here are currently no plans to offer a product specifically designed for managing archival rights, so there is no title list to support a separate archival collection.
The titles are available in the Liverpool University Press collection (Collection ID: 612420000000000023) with the following coverage:
- French Studies Bulletin (ISSN: 1748-9180), available from 1981 (Vol. 1)
- French Studies (ISSN: 1468-2931), available from 1947 (Vol. 1)
Kind regards,
Tamar
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