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  1. Akademisyen Online Veritabani

    Please add Akademisyen Online Veritabani
    https://www.akademisyenonline.com/index.jsp?language=en
    to CDI.
    Thanks

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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  2. 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
    4 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    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

  3. 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
    2 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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  4. 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

    5 votes
    0 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    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
    1 comment  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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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
    2 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    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
    0 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    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
    0 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    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
    0 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    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. 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
    0 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    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. 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
    0 comments  ·  New provider  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    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

  15. Add Lamyline

    Lamyline
    https://www.lamyline.fr

    This is a duplicate and enriched idea from : https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-content/suggestions/33007996-lamyline which has been closed in 2021.

    Access to the continuously updated Lamy publisher documentary collection: the official collection (national and EU official texts, treaties, private law case law, public law case law, European case law, administrative authorities), Lamy books and journals in French.
    Lamy is a French publisher that doesn't exist in the KB; however, the company is now part of Kluwer: I hope this still makes it a new publisher for you.
    Ideally, for Alma and CDI.
    contacts : FR-contactlamyline@wolterskluwer.com

    41 votes
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  16. Add Médiathèque numérique Arte (VOD)

    Médiathèque numérique Arte
    https://vod.mediatheque-numerique.com

    Video on demand: over 5,000 films, documentaries and shows from Arte and UniversCiné.
    Videos are in French or subtitled in French language.
    For Alma only.
    An API is already available : https://mednumv3-backapi.lab.arte.tv/docs/v3/api-docs/simpleCatalog

    Contacts : Lauriane Sudol, l-sudol@artefrance.fr

    55 votes
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  17. Add Xerfi Knowledge

    Xerfi Knowledge
    https://www.xerfiknowledge.com

    French-language platform for sector studies.
    It contains several hundred studies on all markets in France and around the world, updated every year ; tens of thousands of company analyses, hundreds of business reports, forecasts on sectors.
    Xerfi Knowledge platform can be subscribed in full or by sub-section : Emploi, Precepta, Research, Prevision, Groupes, Global.
    Ideally, several Alma collections could be created.

    Contacts : Alexandre MENDES, amendes@xerfi.fr ; Ouassila TOUlOUI, otouioui@xerfi.fr

    17 votes
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  18. Editions Weblaw Journals

    Please add Editions Weblaw Journals to the Knowledge Bases (KBs - Alma CZ, SFX, 360) and Discovery services (CDI - Central Discovery Index).
    About: https://www.weblaw.ch/competence/editions_weblaw
    Access URL: https://drsk.weblaw.ch/ ; https://asa.weblaw.ch/ ; https://jusletter.weblaw.ch/ ; https://jusletter-it.weblaw.ch/
    Contact: https://www.weblaw.ch/competence/editions_weblaw -> "Kontact"
    Best regards,
    Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Fribourg (Switzerland)

    65 votes
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  19. 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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  20. EU Publications

    Please consider including the EU publications in the CDI. There are approximately 400,000 text resources published related to the European Union. All texts are open access.

    https://op.europa.eu/en/web/general-publications/publications
    https://op.europa.eu/en/web/librarians-corner/metadata-services
    Contact: OP-REC-EXPORT@publications.europa.eu

    68 votes
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