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  1. 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

    97 votes
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  2. Add the URLs to the US Government Documents--they are available every month.

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  3. Add LibreTexts ebooks and course material to Alma CZ

    We would like to add LibreTexts vast collection of open educational resources (OER), including ebooks and course materials bibliographic records added to the Alma CZ: https://libretexts.org/ Then, libraries could add LibreTexts ebooks and course materials to course reserve lists in Alma and Primo.

    LibreTexts is home to the largest collection of open educational resources online. Adding LibreTexts ebooks and course materials to the Alma CZ would ensure users have access to OER from across a wide variety of disciplines.

    Thanks,

    Ryan Edwards
    West Los Angeles College Library
    edwardre@wlac.edu

    89 votes
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  4. 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…

    46 votes
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  5. Add "subscribe by email" and other ways to monitor CKB release notes

    It is crucial for us to monitor CKB release notes to ensure that collection activations are appropriately revised in response to changes. At present, the only way to monitor the notes is by RSS feed, which is cumbersome -- it is very easy to miss changes with only RSS feed updates. Please add other means of monitoring these changes, such as subscribing to the release notes by email.

    34 votes
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  6. Sherpa RoMEO indicator embedding

    Embed a Sherpa RoMEO colour indicator and a mouse-over floating tip reading info from RoMEO about a journal's copyright and self-archiving policy.

    Doing this for the search results on EJP could be a great favor.

    Sherpo RoMEO pubs data under CC BY-NC-ND license which seems to ban EL from re-using them? Or EL may talk to them.

    28 votes
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  7. LexisNexis Law Schools

    Please add portfolios to the LexisNexis Law Schools electronic collection in the Community Zone.

    (Note: this collection already exists in the Serials Solutions Knowledgebase, as LexisNexis Advance, with a title count of 15,431. Could the metadata be migrated to Alma, since both are now owned by ProQuest?).

    22 votes
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  8. USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive

    This is a new ProQuest video collection with 55,000 primary source testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity (http://www.proquest.com/products-services/USC-Shoah-Foundation-Visual-History-Archive.html)

    15 votes
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  9. MARC Enrichment for Loeb Classical Library

    A lot of the MARC records for Loeb Classical Library (995553412900041) in the Community Zone are brief records. It would be nice to see these records enriched.

    9 votes
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  10. CZ Enhancement

    Full-text, title-by-title inclusion for resources in these databases/collections


    • The American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection
      L’Annee Philologique
      AP Images

    • Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940

    • Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection
      ARTFL (although I suspect we’re getting access to a fair number in the texts in here from Gallica or HathiTrust)

    • Black Abolitionist Papers

    • China Academic Journals

    • Parts of HeinOnline
      Independent Voices (newspapers/magazines can be searched as serial title, but articles aren’t searched)
      Iter

    • LatAm Studies (we have access to some, but not all, journals through other sources)

    • Parts of LexisNexis
      Literary Encyclopedia
      MathSciNet

    • Nietzsches Werke …
    8 votes
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  11. ASME Proceedings Indexed in Summon

    Currently, only 97% of ASME Conference Proceedings (Database 5AP) are indexed in Summon. Please finish indexing these titles.

    7 votes
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  12. Australian Biblical Review - summon coverage

    Summon Index does not have records for the articles from the journal, Australian Biblical Review. Could you please include the metadata so that this Australian content (which sometimes gets left until last) is discoverable.
    Many thanks

    6 votes
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  13. National Academies Press

    Please add portfolios to the National Academies Press electronic collection in the Community Zone. The collection currently has 2,260 portfolios, but the NAP has over 9,000 books available.

    6 votes
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  14. Finish indexing all of the titles of eBooks on EBSCOhost in Summon

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  15. Please use vendor-available MARC records to configure the Gale Slavery and Anti-Slavery collections pts 2-4 as selective packages (as pt 1)

    Alma CZ collections for the Gale Slavery and Anti-Slavery collections (parts I-IV) were added recently. Part I is configured as a selective package with portfolios for the individual titles, but parts II-IV are configured as databases with no portfolios. Can you please also configure the collections labeled part II through part IV as selective packages, too, and add portfolios for them as well? See my salesforce case #00411679 about this. MARC records are available from Gale Cengage for titles in all four parts.

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  16. Enrich bib records in openedition_freemium - they are currently very poor.

    Records for titles in this open access collection are currently so poor that librarians and students are missing them in our Primo.

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  17. GALEGROUP EIGHTEENTH CENTURY COLLECTIONS ONLINE I

    Please can the bib record portfolios for this Community Zone collection be enriched, some of them are incredibly poor and scant.
    We have received complaints from some of our users and librarians about the lack of bibliographic information in these ebook records.

    An example of a brief record is "The adventures of Roderick Random" MMS ID 993360000000079640
    There is no author, publisher, publication date, isbn, only a partial title.

    4 votes
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  18. Add a record to the CZ for Resources for Gender and Women's studies

    Feminist collections : womens studies library resources in Wisconsin (ISSN 2162-6189) has had a title change to Resources for Gender and Women's Studies: A Feminist Review (ISSN 2576-0750). There is no record in the community zone for the new title, however.

    4 votes
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  19. Index the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing

    The Summon indexing of this journal appears incomplete from 2009 to present. It's well used for courses, so it would be really helpful if it were fully indexed.

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  20. ProQuest History Vault

    Please update this collection. It currently contains 20 titles, but ProQuest has more than twice that many available. See https://proquest.libguides.com/historyvault and https://media2.proquest.com/documents/brochure-historyvault.pdf

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