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
105 results found
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Naxos Music Library - U.S. CDI collections
Some of the content in the CDI collections for Naxos Music Library, Naxos Music Library Jazz, and Naxos Music Library - World are not available in the United States due to copyright restrictions. OCLC has separate collections in WorldShare Manager for NML content that is available to U.S. subscribers. I am requesting that similar collections be added to CDI that contain only the records for content U.S. subscribers can access.
6 votesHello,
We will check with Naxos if they can provide a separate feed for their collections that are suitable for U.S customers only.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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.
5 votesHi,
We will reach out to Elsevier and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Regards,
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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CDI records request for InteLex Past Masters collection
Our client University of Guelph has requested the CDI provide record coverage for the InteLex Past Masters CRKN collection (Collection ID: 615410000000002433)
MARC records for the titles included in InteLex Past Masters website directly: https://www.nlx.com/marc_records/4.
Please work with Dan Haig at InteLex to acquire data for the CDI to enrich user discovery for this collection.
Thank you!
5 votesHello,
Thanks for pointing out this content gap.
We will reach out to the provider to get the relevant metadata.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Early American Newspapers, Series 20
Please add Readex's Early American Newspapers, Series 20, 1812-1876: America's Industrial Centers and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Immigration to the 360KB and Alma CZ.
Thank you,
Amelia Rodarte
Duke University5 votesHi,
We will reach out to Readex and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Regards,
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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Brepolis Library of Latin Texts [formerly Library of Latin Texts A, B]
Requesting CZ content for Brepolis Library of Latin Texts [formerly Library of Latin Texts A and B, merged by provider in 2021].
Library of Latin Texts A [collection ID: 613790000000000926) and Library of Latin Texts B [collection ID: 613790000000000922) contain outdated links and have not been updated since 2021. Metadata for both was poorer quality than what was supplied by vendor.
A customer-contributed collection (Univ. of Western Australia) for Library of Latin Texts (collection ID: 61665968760007861) results in errors for about 100 records upon activation.
5 votesHello,
For enrichment we will need to sign an agreement with the provider, so it might take some time.
Nonetheless, we will reach out to Brepols and ask for an updated title list for these two collections.
Regarding the contributed collection, it is managed by the contributing library. Feel free to reach out directly to them in order to communicate the necessary changes eres-lib@uwa.edu.au.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Create CZ collection for Cambridge Histories Online: 2023
I have moved my original submission from the general exchange to the content exchange here.
5 votesThanks Courtney, this is indeed the right place to post these requests.
We are already working on this collection, but there are some technical details that need to be worked out.
I will post in the comments once we make some progress.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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British Newsreels from Adam Matthew
Pleads add British Newsreels [newly published] from Adam Matthew.
https://www.britishnewsreels.amdigital.co.uk5 votesHello,
We will reach out to the provider and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
Create new/separate automatic holdings collections for Taylor & Francis
I'd love to make use of the new Taylor & Francis automatic holdings feature, but the collections it points to are collections that we are already using. For certain providers, I prefer to use automatic holdings as a "back-up" to my own management. The "Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete" is the collection that the GOBI API uses. I'm also already using the "Taylor & Francis Current Content Access" for another reason. Springer and Wiley both have separate autoholdings collections. Could separate collections also be created for Taylor & Francis? Thanks!
4 votesHello,
We will take this with the Alma product team to decide what is the best approach for this request.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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DART
Please add records to DART-Europe E-theses Portal (JWZ) and make it discoverable in Summon.
4 votesHi,
We will reach out to Association of European Research Libraries and ask for the records for this collection.
Regards,
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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new Sage 2024 collections
Can you please add these new Sage collections that we purchased in early 2024? I am not seeing them in Alma.
• Sage Business Skills 2
• SRM Video: Quantitative & Mixed Methods Collection
• Sage Business Data Decisions
• Social Justice Collection
• Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research4 votesHi,
The collection "Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research" will be available in Alma by the end of May 2024.
Regarding the other collections you mentioned, we will reach out to Sage and ask for the metadata for those collections.
Regards,
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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HeinOnline U.S. State Commitments with Foreign Governments
Please add the new HeinOnline e-resource, "U.S. State Commitments with Foreign Governments" to the Alma Community Zone.
Description: https://home.heinonline.org/u-s-state-commitments-with-foreign-governments/
Access URL: https://heinonline.org/HOL/USFgov?collection=usfgov
Contact: Steve Roses | Director, Sales, sroses@wshein.com | 716.882.26004 votesHello,
We will reach out to Hein and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
"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: OFN4 votesHi,
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
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Create GeoScienceWorld Withdrawn Ebooks Collection
Work with provider to create a separate, "withdrawn titles" collection for GeoScienceWorld content that is not available to new customers but is available to existing customers.
[Ex Libris note: Related to support case # 07011161]
4 votesHello,
We will reach out to GeoScienceWorld, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
The Pragda Complete Film Collection Life of File - Canada
The following collection is missing in the CZ.
The Pragda Complete Film Collection Life of File - Canada
We hope that it would become available soon.
4 votesHi,
Thank you for the additional information,
We will reach out to Docuseek and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Regards,
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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add KU Language Science Press 2024-2026 to alma
Hello,
I see the older Knowledge Unlatched Language Science Press packages, but not this one to choose: KU Language Science Press 2024-2026. Can you please add this most recent one so we can activate it?
Much appreciated!4 votesHi,
We are looking into it and ask KU for this collection's metadata.
Kind regards
Rachel
Senior Content Support Analyst
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Break up IBISWorld into sub-collections
The existing IBISWorld collection (IBISWorld Alma ID 6113915960000041 DBID 6EY) is for the entire platform, but many customers license only a subset of that content. The smaller IBISWorld collections in the CZ are not connected to a CDI DB and they aren't complete (e.g., there's no collection for the Ontario Provincial Reports). Please make more subset collections and CDI DBs for them.
4 votesHello,
We will reach out to the provider and ask for the metadata for the sub-collections.We will also look into mapping them to CDI.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
Add KB Collection for Hirzel Verlag Journals
Please add a KB collection for Hirzel Verlag journals on the Biblioscout platform.
It appears they only publish one journal:
ZfdA Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur
https://biblioscout.net/journal/zfda
Start coverage year is 2005 and ISSN is 0044-2518.There's already a Community Zone collection named "Biblioscout - S. Hirzel Verlag Elibrary" (collection ID 616200000000000030) but Content Support clarified that it's only for ebooks and that a journal portfolio cannot be added to it.
Thanks.
4 votesHello Charlie,
We will reach out to Hirzel Verlag, and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
ASM Technical Books
Please create a CZ collection for ASM Technical Books.
https://dl.asminternational.org/technical-books4 votesHi
We will reach out to ASM International and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Rachel Harati
Content Product Lead
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IGI global
Please consider adding a collection to the 360 KB for the IGI Global EBA for the Carolina Consortium.
Thank you!4 votesHello,
We will reach out to IGI Global and ask for the metadata for this collection.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager -
De Gruyter ACUP (Association of Canadian University Presses)
We purchased, and content is available at degruyter.com for the 2020-2023 De Gruyter ACUP eBook packages. Can you please look into loading these into the community zone?
3 votesHello,
We will reach out to De Gruyter and ask for the metadata of the Association of Canadian University Presses collections.
Thanks,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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