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  1. Enhancing searchability through original script support for non-latin data

    Hi,
    currently, the CZ-data in other than latin scripts is often transliterated using the ALA transliteration rules. However, these rules are not used in all regions of the world. This issue concerns mainly the title and authors. Ultimately, the different transliterations make the search for this data very difficult.

    We suggest that the CZ-data in other than latin scripts should contain the original script as well as the transliteration. If ExLibris could introduce the original script in a linked field 880 as the standard for non-Latin scripts in the CZ, this would be a big advantage for us in the…

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  2. Bloomsbury Video Library: Visual and Applied Arts Collection 2025 Annual update for 360 and CDI

    I have been advised by the Content Support team to submit this request here 'to ensure better transparency and efficiency'.

    Could we please add the 2025 Annual Update for Bloomsbury Video Library: Visual and Applied Arts Collection to the 360 KB and CDI?

    Thank you.

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  3. Add IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library and ChoralWiki/Choral Public Domain Library to CDI

    Please add the contents of the free music score libraries, IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library (https://imslp.org/), and ChoralWiki/Choral Public Domain Library (https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) to the CDI. Thanks!

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  4. Add Wolters Kluwer VitalLaw collection

    Could a title level collection be added for VitalLaw, from Wolters Kluwer? VitalLaw is essential for academic law libraries, firms, and cross-displinary studies like business, healthcare, and economics. The VitalLaw platform includes treatises, journals, primary law, and research tools, specializing in the areas of tax, securities, international law, and business law. VitalLaw is widely used alongside Lexis and Westlaw, so I think it should have the same or similar discovery options available. It would be really helpful for my library and many others, I think. Thanks!

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  5. Stop indexing “Book reviews” in CDI

    These documents generate a lot of link problems. Each review is generally indexed separately and is the subject of a separate CDI record.

    Problem 1
    This creates confusion for users, who believe they have access to the reviewed work, but it is usually only a brief summary, which creates frustration (in addition to polluting the database because the title they are really looking for is often buried among numerous review records).

    Problem 2
    This creates problems with links. Book reviews on journal websites are often grouped together in a single section of the issue, and the links in the CDI…

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  6. Add Inlibra as Provider

    Hello, we received a notice that all titles in the Nomos eLibrary, the Beck eLibrary, and the VDI Verlag-eLibrary are moving to a new platform: Inlibra (https://www.inlibra.com/de/). Can you please add this provider and its collections to the CZ?

    Thanks,

    Kevin

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  7. Add LexNow

    LexNow confirmed on the agreement to develop a gateway from LexNow.io to the Alma Library Management System (Ex Libris). (CZ & CDI)

    As for timing, LexNow made commitments to our clients regarding developments, and they intend to honour them. LexNow is looking at the first half of 2026.

    In the meantime, LexNow will of course continue to provide you with regular Ms Excel exports of our titles (books and journals) to feed into your digital catalogues.

    The goal for LexNow.io is to remain a solution for all legal professionals. This requires the daily efforts of all 18 publishing partners associated…

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  8. Hope to enhance these brief records of package（WORLD_SCIENTIFIC_JOURNALS;Collection ID: 61590044640003966）

    Some journals in this resource package（WORLDSCIENTIFICJOURNALS;Collection ID: 61590044640003966）, approximately 47 titles, have neither Library of Congress Classification numbers nor Dewey Classification numbers. It is recommended to enhance these brief records by replacing them with more comprehensive bibliographic information.

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  9. Please add artresearch.net

    artresearch.net is a free, open-access art historical research database that has both image and text searching for the combined photograph archives of renowned international libraries.

    Please consider adding the database to the Alma CZ.

    Thank you!

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  10. Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press

    Hello,

    We would appreciate if you could add The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press to Alma. The collection is currently a University of Arizona collection with much need information regarding Mexican and Mexican American people.

    The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s. The collection covers important periods in Mexican-American history, from the Mexican Revolution to the Bracero Program…

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  11. Add new GALE collections

    1. Global Development and Humanitarian Aid : The International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent, 1919-1994 collection https://link.gale.com/apps/GDHA?u
    2. Times Digital Archive 2020-2024 collection https://link.gale.com/apps/TTDA?u
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  12. Enrichment of Community Zone bibliographic records for Pressreader

    Enrich and update Pressreader with bibliographic records in CZ.

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  13. Enrichment of Community Zone bibliographic records for Mediearkivet

    Enrich and update Mediearkivet with bibliographic records in CZ.

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  14. Ovid Nursing Community College Essential Journal Collection 2019 (from 2015)

    Ovid Nursing Community College Essential Journal Collection 2019 (from 2015) doesn't have it's own collection in the CZ. More information is here: https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/solutions/ovid/ovid-nursing-community-college-essential-journal-collection-14718.

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  15. Global Census Archive: Ukraine

    Please add the following database to the 360 KB. 0-title for ERM purposes is fine.

    Provider: East View Information Services
    Database Name: Global Census Archive: Ukraine
    Database URL: https://gca.eastview.com/ukr

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  16. New database for SciX / Science Explorer

    See https://scixplorer.org/
    SciX will replace Astrophysics Data System, Collection ID: 61110974885340603. There is a statement on the ADS landing page at https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/, "SciX will be the next generation ADS interface..." It is not clear when the ADS site will be retired so please create an entirely new database.

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  17. New Collection: Nimonik

    Please create a new collection for Nimonik. Vendor website: https://nimonik.com/

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  18. Projectr Streaming Video MARC Enrichment

    Please try to obtain comprehensive MARC records from Projectr, a streaming video platform from Grasshopper Films. Some of their CZ collections have enriched records from Alexander Street but Alexander Street only hosts a subset of their platform.

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  19. New electronic collections for Droz

    Could you add several electronic collections from the publisher Librairie Droz ?

    Oeuvres complètes de Calvin (124 ebooks) : https://calviniopera.droz.org/
    Histoire des idées et critique littéraire (198 ebooks) : https://hicl.droz.org/
    Histoire du droit (74 ebooks) : https://histoiredudroit.droz.org/
    Calvin et Genève (261 ebooks) : https://calvin.droz.org/

    These collections are not totally covered by the French national licence : https://www.licencesnationales.fr/les-corpus-acquis/droz-portails-calvin-et-humanisme-et-renaissance/

    Best regards

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  20. Storybox

    Could this resource be added to Alma https://storyboxlibrary.com.au/

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