Content
We welcome your ideas for new content (metadata) to add to the Knowledge Bases (KBs - Alma CZ, SFX, 360) and Discovery services (CDI - Central Discovery Index whose data supports Primo and Summon).
- Check if your idea has already been posted and vote for it before posting a new idea.
- Choose the right category: "New Provider" for content from a provider that has no available content in the KBs or CDI, or "Existing Provider" for content from a provider that already has content available in the KBs or CDI.
- Add a direct link to the provider/resource you suggest, and a contact person if possible.
- For enrichment requests add the relevant collection ID(s).
- Make sure you mention any specific added value your idea has to the community such as language or supporting diversity.
- Did you find errors in an existing collection? please open a case.
- A new year has begun but no corresponding annual collection? post an idea in Idea Exchange, make sure to mention if it is an existing provider.
- Existing Provider - if your idea is for a new collection from a provider that already has content available in the KBs and CDI or enriching records for an existing collection, use this category. No voting is necessary, ideas for existing providers will be handled regardless of voting.
- New Providers - if your idea is for content from a provider that does not have any content available in the KBs and CDI, choose this category.
- Other - for non provider specific ideas
24 results found
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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 Libraries15 votesHello,
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
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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: English13 votesHello,
We will reach out to Schlager, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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 Association4 votesHello,
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
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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 Association4 votesHello,
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
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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.com30 votesHello,
We will reach out to Biblioondemand, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Please add Arthistoricum.net
Please add Arthistoricum.net with portfolios to the ckb.
https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalogThank you and kind regards
30 votesHello,
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
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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 votesHello,
We will reach out to McIntyre Media, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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.org1 voteHello,
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
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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
9 votesHello,
We will reach out to Arte, and ask for their metadata.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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 votesHello,
We are working with Septentrio to obtain metadata for CZ and CDI.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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"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 votesHello,
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
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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 votesHello,
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
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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.
6 votesHello,
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
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Please add European data to Intota
It's important for Open Science with open data sets.
3 votesHello,
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
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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/AThank you.
4 votesHello,
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
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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=E8 votesHello,
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
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Add SocArXiV as CDI collection
Can SocArXiV be added as a CDI collection? https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv Thanks!
16 votesHello,
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
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Practical Action Publishing
Please add Practical Action Publishing ebooks:
https://practicalactionpublishing.com/aboutPractical 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 votesHello,
We are working with the content provider to add their collection to the Knowledgebases.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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 votesHello Linas,
We will reach out to you shortly to discuss the delivery of the metadata.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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 votesHello,
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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