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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).


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  1. Add Homosaurus to Alma Authority Vocabularies

    We would like to suggest adding Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ+ linked data vocabulary to the authority vocabularies in the resource management configuration. The vocabulary is available at https://homosaurus.org/

    Homosaurus has received a lot of traction in the past few years as alternative to LCSH for describing resources about the LGBTQ+ community. We add the terms at present in a 650 _7 $a heading $2 homoit.

    Adding Homosaurus to the authority vocabularies would help greatly in on-going authority control, rather than managing locally.

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  2. Add Cassyni (https://cassyni.com) which makes academic seminars openly available to CDI

    An academic at Imperial College London has co-founded a platform called Cassyni (https://cassyni.com) which makes academic seminars openly available. It'd be very useful if the platform is added to CDI so that individual seminars regarding many journals from major publishers can be discoverable in Primo. To give you some idea what Cassyni is like I posted some links below.

    It has partnered with various publishers including Elsevier, Cambridge University Press, Springer Nature and Royal Society to run seminar series for journals e.g.:

    https://cassyni.com/s/jcp
    https://cassyni.com/s/fmws
    https://cassyni.com/s/naturewater

    All published seminars receive a DOI e.g.:

    https://doi.org/10.52843/cassyni.dpf4mb

    57 votes
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  3. Add Alma Media Ohj - Finnish Content

    Request by Finnish community to add Alma Media Ohj:
    Fokus Talous + Verotus
    Fokus Juridiikka
    Verkkokirjahylly
    Suomen Laki / Finlands Lag
    Bisnes-kirjasto

    21 votes
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  4. Ball State University Open Journals

    The Ball State University Libraries publish nine Open Access journals covering a range of disciplines, including biological sciences, humanities, education, social work, counseling psychology, literature, and philosophy. We recommend these for inclusion in all ExLibris discovery platforms (Summon, Primo) and knowledge bases (360/Intota, Alma, SFX).

    The journals include well-established titles such as Teaching History and The Journal for Social Action in Counseling & Psychology, as well as new titles such as The Journal of Special Education Preparation and Sport Social Work, launched in 2022.

    The current full journal list is:
    • Burkhardt Review, https://doi.org/10.33043/BR
    • Bulletin of the International Association…

    21 votes
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    Hello,

    BALL_STATE_OPEN_ACCESS_JOURNALS has been added to the Knowledgebases.

    This change will be part of the 5th December Content Update 20235300 that will be released on Dec 31st, 2023.

    Best,

    Tamar

  5. Human Rights Watch reports

    Would it be possible to add the Open Access collection of Human Rights Watch reports? https://www.hrw.org/publications

    10 votes
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  6. Internet Archive Scholar

    Are there any plans to add Internet Archive Scholar to the CZ?
    https://scholar.archive.org/
    This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web

    9 votes
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    Hello,

    INTERNET_ARCHIVE_SCHOLARS (dbid: IEEBU) was created for both 360 and SFX/ Alma.

    This change will be part of the 1st December Content Update ( 20234900 ) that will be released on December 3rd.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  7. Add Lived Places Publishing ebook collection to Community Zone

    We have recently purchased the ebook frontlist from a new publisher, Lived Places Publishing. So that we can quickly provide access to these books, we want them to be loaded into Alma's Community Zone. The publisher has begun this process with Ex Libris but I would like to express interest in seeing this collection be expedited.

    9 votes
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    Hello,

    The collection

    2023_LIVED_PLACES_PUBLISHING_LIBRARY_COLLECTION

    Collection ID 614920000000005775 has been added to the Knowledgebases.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  8. add database to Alma: Dimensions from Digital Science

    Hello,
    Please add the database Dimensions from the provider Digital Science to Alma CZ: https://www.dimensions.ai/
    Thanks!
    Jennifer

    8 votes
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    Hello,

    DIMENSIONS (dbid: DMMUA) was created for both 360 and SFX/ Alma.

    This change will be part of the 1st December Content Update ( 20234900 ) that will be released on December 3rd.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  9. Amnesty International reports

    Would it be possible to add the Open Access collection of Amnesty International reports, https://www.amnestyusa.org/learn/reports/

    7 votes
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    Hello,

    We added a zero-title database to the knowledgebases

    AMNESTY_INTERNATIONAL_REPORTS (dbid: ANSVJ), collection ID 615400000000000620.

    The provider was not responsive so we are unable to create a collection with titles or a CDI package.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  10. Fordham University Press: Archive, 1962-1999 (de Gruyter)

    Our library acquired Fordham University Press: Archive, 1962-1999, a backlist from De Gruyter. We could not find the electronic collection in ALMA

    3 votes
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    Hello,

    The collection has been created as De Gruyter Fordham University Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000, according to De Gruyter's metadata of available archives they are providing to libraries.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  11. lived places publishing

    Hello,
    I previously submitted a request for this provider to be loaded into the community zone (case 06660914), but it was closed due to no timeline being reached. Since some time has passed, I hope to try again and see if the content can be loaded into the community zone. The main contact remains David Parker (david@livedplacespublishing.com).
    Thank you!

    3 votes
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    Hello,

    The collection

    2023_LIVED_PLACES_PUBLISHING_LIBRARY_COLLECTION

    Collection ID 614920000000005775 has been added to the Knowledgebases.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  12. Add zero title database under provider Global Water Intelligence

    Can you please add a zero title database under the provider Global Water Intelligence for DesalData? The starting URL is:
    https://www.desaldata.com/

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