Many times when we found wrong metadata in PCI and reported to Ex Libris for correction, it took them a long time to contact the data vendors to make the corrections. Sometimes they never can get response or correction from the vendors, and the wrong metadata stayed in PCI without any changes. The wrong metadata is really misleading and cannot generate the correct OpenURLs for users to reach the full text articles. I would suggest Ex Libris to build an internal metadata correction layer for the PCI data to improve its quality. With this layer, even the vendors don't correct the wrong metadata, Primo and Primo VE still can display the correct metadata and generate the correct OpenURLs.

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 for HathiTrust do not align with the HathiTrust files available. Instead, the ExLibris collections are limited to Public Domain (only) Collections, which includes no Open Access/Creative Commons/Other Licensed content beyond the Public Domain; and Copyright restricted collections. These two categories are then further refined by US and non-US.

It would be much better to have access to the entire Full View HathiTrust collections; the restriction to Public Domain seems arbitrary and unhelpful, and it is not a restriction that HathiTrust makes itself. Since the data files are out there and made fully accessible for use, I sincerely implore ExLibris to use the data files or OAI harvest from HathiTrust to provide full and accurate access to the collections. The existing ExLibris CZ (and PCI) collections are extremely inadequate.

Our goal is to include records for all those materials to which users have full access but exclude records for copyright-restricted materials, which is not currently possible with the existing ExLibris collections, which either leave out accessible materials or include copyright-restricted.

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 same way on each ‘side’, no matter which ‘side’ the Journal is in.)

It would be useful to have a Selective Package for each ‘side’ that can be easily switched on (rather than having to activate and manage two separate versions of the same Selective package).

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
  Pravda
  Pressreader (although we’re likely getting at least some of this content via other sources)
  Sanborn Maps (should we get MARC records for this?)


• Scripta Sinica
  Statista
  Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
  Uniworld