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24 results found

  1. the atlantic

    Could you please create a database collection for The Atlantic in Alma?

    Provider: The Atlantic Monthly
    Title: The Atlantic
    URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/

    Thanks,
    Zhaneille Green
    Duke University Libraries

    15 votes
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    Hello,

    The Atlantic is a magazine with an ISSN, and it is more suitably represented as a portfolio.

    There is one available for activation in Miscellaneous Ejournals, Collection ID: 61111016833201000 (Portfolio ID: 531000000000708627).

    If you could please add in a comment what is the use case of having this title represented as a database, that would be very helpful.

    Thanks,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  2. Add Essential Primary Sources (Schlager Digital Library)

    Please add to CDI:
    Name of Collection: Essential Primary Sources
    Platform: Schlager Digital Library
    URL: https://library.schlagergroup.com/
    Language: English

    Contact: https://www.schlagergroup.com/contact/

    13 votes
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  3. My Desk24 (Il Sole 24 Ore)

    Il Sole 24 Ore is an Italian news company.
    We suggest adding to the KBs the digital platform My Desk 24 https://24oreprofessionale.ilsole24ore.com/prodotti/mydesk24/?refresh_ce=1; the platform contains primary and secondary legal resources and news.
    Laura Perillo on behalf of the ITALE Association

    4 votes
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    Hello,

    This request has been selected as part of the 2025 CERV votes.

    We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for his collection.

    If you can share a designated contact person with this provider, that would be much appreciated.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  4. Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre

    GFL (https://www.giuffrefrancislefebvre.it/it/contatti) is an Italian publisher and information provider; we suggest adding to the KBs the following collections of interest: Biblioteca Riviste (ejournals) https://www.bibliotecariviste.giuffrefrancislefebvre.it and Biblioteca Volumi (ebooks) https://bibliotecavolumi.giuffrefrancislefebvre.it/.
    Laura Perillo on behalf of the ITALE Association

    4 votes
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    1 comment  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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    Hello,

    This request has been selected as part of the 2025 CERV votes.

    We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for his collection.

    If you can share a designated contact person with this provider, that would be much appreciated.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  5. Add a new content Provider in KBC : Biblioondemand

    BiblioonDemand provide access to 3 million electronic books in French and foreign languages.
    It is also a platform for French libraries to access digital lending .
    Contact : conseil@biblioondemand.com

    30 votes
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  6. Please add Arthistoricum.net

    Please add Arthistoricum.net with portfolios to the ckb.
    https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog

    Thank you and kind regards

    30 votes
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    Hello,

    We will contact this provider to request the metadata for both collections.

    It would be helpful if you could reach out to them as well, and express your interest, as they were unable to provide us with title lists in the past.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  7. Add a Can-Core Academic Video collection

    Can you please investigate adding Can-Core Academic Video to the CZ.

    Can-Core includes thousands of current and relevant Canadian videos. This streaming platform features quality programming from many of Canada's top filmmakers. Includes an Indigenous content search.

    4 votes
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  8. Add SciFinder-n collection

    SciFinder-n is a specialized resource for chemistry and chemical engineering, providing access to a collection of substances, reactions and scientific literature curated by expert scientists.
    URL: https://scifinder-n.cas.org
    Contact: agonzalez@acs-i.org

    1 vote
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    Hello,

    This request has been selected as part of the 2025 CERV votes.

    We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for his collection.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  9. Add Arte Video Campus

    Arte Video Campus

    Arte Campus is ARTE's online educational resource for higher education and adult training.
    The corpus comprises around 2,000 videos (as of January 2024), available and transcribed in 5 languages, in the form of feature-length documentaries, documentary magazines, short fiction films, and recordings of plays, ballets and operas. Fields represented include the arts, literature, languages, social sciences, economics and politics, technology and health.

    Bibliographic records for the corpus can be obtained from the SUDOC. A systematic reporting campaign exists in the French network

    Contact : https://artecampus.zendesk.com/hc/fr/requests/new

    9 votes
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  10. Add Septentrio Academic Publishing to Alma CZ and CDI

    Please add a new electronic collection to Alma CKB for Septentrio Academic Publishing and make the content available in CDI. Septentrio publishes approx. 30 OA journals. The content can be found here: https://septentrio.uit.no/. Contact: septentrio[at]ub.uit.no

    3 votes
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  11. "Architectural Institute of Japan Search System (日本建築学会論文等検索システム - 機関定額制)" for discovery

    "Architectural Institute of Japan Search System (日本建築学会論文等検索システム - 機関定額制)" is a database managed by Architectural Institute of Japan.
    It contains many publications published by Architectural Institute of Japan.
    Some of journals has been covered by existing databases like IRDB, J-STAGE but this database includes not only academic journals but also conference reports or any other type of contents, and they are not searchable on discovery.

    https://www.aij.or.jp/paper/search.html

    It would be helpful for researchers if Ex Libris discovery included this database as a search target.

    25 votes
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    Hello,

    This request has been selected as part of the 2025 CERV votes.

    We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for his collection.

    If you can share a designated contact person with this provider, that would be much appreciated.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  12. Contemporary Art Library

    See: https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/

    Contemporary Art Library is the largest public database of contemporary art exhibition documentation, including more than 700,000 images, documents, and videos representing more than 21,000 exhibitions, performances, and other projects.

    Contact: desk@contemporaryartlibrary.org

    3 votes
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    Hello,

    This request has been selected as part of the 2025 CERV votes.

    We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for his collection.

    If you can share a designated contact person with this provider, that would be much appreciated.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  13. helsinki university press

    Please add Helsinki university press

    Helsinki University Press (HUP) is a fully open access University Press, publishing high-quality scholarly literature. We publish peer reviewed books and journals from all academic fields. We are open for submissions by academics globally.

    https://hup.fi/site/

    Contact: https://hup.fi/site/team-contact/#contact-us

    6 votes
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    Hello,

    This request has been selected as part of the 2025 CERV votes.

    We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for his collection.

    If you can share a designated contact person with this provider, that would be much appreciated.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  14. Please add European data to Intota

    https://data.europa.eu/en

    It's important for Open Science with open data sets.

    3 votes
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    Hello,

    This request has been selected as part of the 2025 CERV votes.

    We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for his collection.

    If you can share a designated contact person with this provider, that would be much appreciated.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  15. Add "新建築データ(SHINKENCHIKU DATA)" to Central Discovery Index and 360KB

    "新建築データ(SHINKENCHIKU DATA)" is an online database of Japanese biggest journal of architecture.

    Both paper version of this journal and this database are widely subscribed in many universities in Japan.

    Please consider adding "新建築データ" in the Central Discovery Index and KB.

    ■"新建築データ"

    https://data.shinkenchiku.online/en?

    Provider: Shinkenchiku-Sha Co., Ltd
    Code: N/A

    Thank you.

    4 votes
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    Hello,

    This request has been selected as part of the 2025 CERV votes.

    We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for his collection.

    If you can share a designated contact person with this provider, that would be much appreciated.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  16. Add Taiwan Open Access Journals(TOAJ) into Alma CZ & CDI

    We would like to add Taiwan Open Access Journals (TOAJ) into ALMA CZ and CDI. TOAJ is a significant open access platform in Taiwan, and it is highly requested by many Taiwan Alma users.
    URL: https://toaj.stpi.narl.org.tw/index?lang2=E

    8 votes
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    Hello,

    We will reach out to this provider and check if they can send us metadata that we can use.

    Please be advised, that although this is Open Access, we will need to confirm with our legal department that the metadata can be used.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  17. Add SocArXiV as CDI collection

    Can SocArXiV be added as a CDI collection? https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv Thanks!

    16 votes
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    Hello,

    This request has been selected as part of the 2025 CERV votes.

    We will reach out to the content provider, and ask for the metadata for his collection.

    If you can share a designated contact person with this provider, that would be much appreciated.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  18. Practical Action Publishing

    Please add Practical Action Publishing ebooks:
    https://practicalactionpublishing.com/about

    Practical Action Publishing produces new titles each year covering development fields such as water and gender issues, agriculture and health, and including analytical texts, practical books, hands on manuals and reference works.

    0 votes
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  19. Kaunas University of Technology Press OA Journal Collection

    Please add the collection of open-access journals published by Kaunas University of Technology Press.
    Most of the articles are written in English, and some are in Lithuanian. There are currently 14 journals in total. The Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform is used.
    Link to the website: https://journals.ktu.edu.
    For more detailed information, please contact by e-mail linas.salelionis@library.lt.

    53 votes
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  20. Add Thoth Open Access collection as a Community Zone

    This is a request to add the collection of Diamond OA publications in Thoth (http://www.thoth.pub/) as a Community Zone collection.

    Thoth contains a steadily growing collection of OA publications from scholar-led publishers such as punctum books, Open Book Publishers, meson press, mediastudies.press, and African Minds, and we have been working with UC Santa Barbara Library to make it more accessible to libraries worldwide.

    Creating a dedicated Community Zone would substantially increase access to these OA publishers.

    91 votes
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    Hello,

    We will reach out to Thoth (with the address provided in the comment - thank you!), and will review the available metadata to evaluate our options.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

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