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  1. EM Premium (Elsevier)

    Please add EM Premium to the Knowledge Bases (KBs - Alma CZ, SFX, 360) and Discovery services (CDI - Central Discovery Index).
    The Couperin consortium already has its collection : "Bacon Elsevier Couperin Empremium" (615300000000001213)

    About: https://www.elsevier.com/fr-fr/promotions/em-premium
    Access URL: http://www.em-premium.com/
    Title List URL: https://www.em-premium.com/em/pdf/20190215_Liste_titres_EM_PREMIUM.pdf
    Contact: https://fr.service.elsevier.com/app/contact/supporthub/empremium/

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  2. Automated holdings management for VLeBooks

    Could we please enable automated holdings management for:

    Database name: VLeBooks
    Database code: 38.
    Provider:Askews and Holts Library Services Ltd
    Default URL: http://www.vlebooks.com/

    I have had difficulty activating e-book titles for this provider in the 360 KB, due to metadata inconsistencies.

    ProQuset and Ex Libris Support suggested that the content team and developers are looking for opportunities to extend the support for the "Automated Holdings Updates" process that is now set up for PQ Ebook Central.

    Since there are now similar processes available for Taylor & Francis books and Springer Nature content, would it be possible to enable this process…

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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    VLeBooks is on our list for adding as an autoholdings collection in the next year.

    I will update this idea as we reach progress.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  3. KU Focus Collection: Global Warming and Responses 2025-2027

    Dear ExLibris Support,

    We just pledged to these collections. May we request to add these to ALMA KB? We wanted to put it out there.

    Thank you,
    Mariyam

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  4. KU Select 2025-2027 SDG Full Collection

    Dear ExLibris Support,

    We just pledged to these collections. May we request to add these to ALMA KB? We wanted to put it out there.

    Thank you,
    Mariyam

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  5. Please add collection for Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: The Early Cold War and Decolonization (Gale)

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  6. EIU Viewpoint - Add content to CDI

    There is an EIU Viewpoint database in Alma. Can you ask EIU for metadata to add reports, forecasts, etc. to CDI? Or add portfolios to the collection?

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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We will check with EIU regarding metadata for CDI or to add portfolios for a full text collection.

    For CDI metadata we may need to setup an agreement, which can take time. And for a full text collection the records may not have enough metadata to be properly presented in the Knowledgebases.

    I will update the idea once I have some information to share.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  7. Target/Collection: ASTM journals hosted on ASME platform

    ASTM (American Society of Testing and Materials) is in the process of moving their journals from their ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library database to another society's (ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)) platform, see https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/astm-journals .

    There are portfolios for the ASTM journals set up under the ASME Digital Collection Journals collection (Collection ID: 611000000000000172). I've activated a second version of that collection, given it the 'ASTM Digital Library Journals' public name and activated the ASTM journal portfolios under that collection. Since the ASTM journals are purchased separately, it seems to me that they should be under a separate…

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  8. Add CDI for Gideon content

    We already have the e-books activated but would like CDI added for the database content.
    https://www.gideononline.com/

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  9. Add CDI link-in record records for 3 JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments collections

    JoVE, an existing provider partner of Ex Libris, has contributed many video collections to the CZ. Most of the collections have CDI link in record records we can activate. The MARCs and portfolios for JoVE are very poor (because these are video collections, so it's not possible to generate good data from the KBART files loaded to produce the portfolios and bibs), so it is very important that there be link in record records we can activate instead. However, for 3 JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments collections, there are portfolios and bibs but no link in record records. Could Ex Libris…

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  10. POWER TO THE PEOPLE: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press, Nineteenth to Twenty-first Century (Gale Primary Sources)

    Hello, can you please add this Gale collection?

    Collection is described here: https://www.gale.com/c/power-to-the-people-counterculture-social-movements-and-the-alternative-press

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  11. History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century (Gale Primary Sources)

    Hello, can you please add this Gale collection to the CZ?

    The collection is described here: https://www.gale.com/primary-sources/history-of-disabilities

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  12. Oxford Scholarship Online Yearly subject specific collections for years prior to 2022

    Most of the Oxford Scholarship Online subject specific collections only have yearly collections that go back to 2022 (for example Classical Studies has a 2022 and 2023 collection). Could yearly collections for the years prior to 2022 be added to the Alma CZ? We are particularly interested in yearly subject specific collections for the following subjects:

    Political Science
    Literature
    Business & Management
    Classical Studies
    Economics and Finance
    History
    Linguistics
    Neuroscience
    Philosophy
    Psychology
    Public Health and Epidemiology
    Religion
    Social Work

    Thank you!

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  13. New Database Request: Archives of Sexuality and Gender (Part 6)

    Please add a new collection to the client center for Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Part 6, Community and Identity in North America from Gale. The starting URL is https://link.gale.com/apps/AHSI?u=[LOCATION_ID].

    Thank you!

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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We are checking with Gale regarding the metadata for

    Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Community and Identity in North America Digital Archive (is this what you are referring to as part 6?)

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  14. Add New Gale Archives collections to CZ and CDI

    Add New Gale Archives collections:

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    Under Review  ·  AdminAnonymous (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hi,

    Food History: Printed and Manuscript Recipe Books; 1669-1990 is already available:

    Collection ID 614920000000005958


    Regarding Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Community and Identity in North America Digital Archive, we will contact Gale and ask for the metadata of the collection.


    All the best,

    Rachel

    Senior Content Support Analyst

  15. Missing Gale Collections

    Hello,
    We recently purchased the following Gale collections. I am not finding any of them in Alma yet. can you please add them?

    AU: Administrative Histories of U.S. Civilian Agencies: Korean War Digital Archive

    AU: Administrative Histories of U.S. Civilian Agencies: World War II Digital Archive

    AU: Counterattack Project - The FBI Files Digital Archive

    AU: Dissent in Poland: Publications & Manuscripts KARTA Center Foundation Arch Warsaw: Eastern DA

    AU: Dissent in Poland: Publications & Manuscripts KARTA Center Foundation Arch Warsaw: Opposition DA

    AU: Dissent in Poland: Publications & Manuscripts KARTA Center Foundation Arch Warsaw: Solidarity DA

    AU: Eli Whitney…

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  16. IOP eBooks AAS Astronomy 2024 Collection

    Can you please add the Institute of Physics collection for AAS astronomy 2024? We recently purchased this but I cannot find it in Alma. Thanks!

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  17. CDI collection for Elsevier Open Access articles

    Could you please add a CDI database only collection with links in record for Elsevier open access articles?

    There is no longer an Elsevier open access knowledge base collection https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-content/suggestions/43048611-add-elsevier-open-access-collection-to-alma-cz

    And I think this would work better as a CDI collection given how many OA articles there are in hybrid journals.

    For example, 76,000 archival articles were made open as the result of a large United States Library consortia agreement:
    https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/03/16/retroactively-open-elsevier-backflips-for-nerl-agreement/

    And these OA articles should be more easily discoverable via a dedicated CDI link in record collection.

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  18. "Database for Research Thesis Catalog of Japanese Literature" for discovery

    "Database for Research Thesis Catalog of Japanese Literature（国文学論文目録データベース）" is a union catalog database of research papers on Japanese literature.

    https://ronbun.nijl.ac.jp/kokubun

    This database includes information on research papers on Japanese literature, Japanese language studies, and Japanese language education.

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

    Provider: National Institute of Japanese Literature
    Code: OFN

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    Under Review  ·  AdminAnonymous (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hi,

    We will reach out to the National Institute of Japanese Literature and ask for the records metadata for this collection.

    Regards,


    Rachel

    Senior Content Support Analyst


  19. Knowledge Unlatched 2024 collections

    Dear Support,

    Can I request to add these collections to ALMA KB?

    KU Select 2024 SDG Books full package
    Latest Thinking on the Climate Action SDG 2024
    IWA Publishing Books Frontlist 2024-2026

    Thank you,
    Mariyam

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  20. Il diritto degli affari

    We noticed that the articles in the open access journal 'Il diritto degli affari', ISSN 2281-4531, included in DOAJ, are not indexed in the CDI. Is it possible to have this content searchable?
    Kind regards.
    Carla

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