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  1. Please enrich records of "Exploring Race in Society" collection

    Thank you for adding the EBSCO Exploring Race in Society collection (616180000000000029) in CZ. However, the quality is not great. Out of 70 titles, 61 titles have brief level 3 and below. They are brief records with title and publisher only.

    Please work with the vendor to enrich the records.

    Thanks!

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    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Unfortunately, Ebsco provides us with KBART files only, and we will not be able to enrich this collection without their support of MARC records delivery to us.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

     

  2. Create collection - MUSIC and Dance Online (KERIS) Provided by ProQuest

    This collection has been included in the KERIS license DB for the university.
    But it's not available even though Proquest provides it.

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    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    "Music and Dance Online" is a sales package, not a specific product. It is comprised of multiple individual AS music and dance products, and you must activate all the relevant individual products.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  3. Wiley EBA Target

    We would like a Wiley EBA target similar to other EBA targets for other providers in SFX

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    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Wiley will not send us updated metadata for such a collection, and we cannot create it without their support.

    So unfortunately, I will have to close this idea as we are unable to fulfill it.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  4. Add JSTOR Community College Collection

    This is a new package that is being offered starting July 1 2023. See https://about.jstor.org/librarians/journals/jstor-community-colleges-collection/ -- while it comprises distinct collections that are probably already in the CKB, it will be much more convenient for us to order and maintain if it is a distinct CZ collection.

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    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    JSTOR confirmed that the requested collection JSTOR Community College Collection is in fact the same as the JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection.

    Therefore I am closing this idea as this is already available.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  5. Chronicle of Higher Education Trends Report

    Please add the Trends Reports to the Chronicle of Higher Education collection.
    Here is a link to the most recent report
    https://www.chronicle.com/the-higher-education-trends-report-2024/

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    Closed  ·  AdminAnonymous (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hi,

    Any issues with updates of existing collections should be addressed via a support ticket in Salesforce.


    There is a collection called "Chronicle of Higher Education" (DBID: DBV) and this request should be regarding adding a new portfolio to an existing collection.


    I apologize for this inconvenience, but opening a case would be the best way to investigate the delayed update to this collection.


    Kind regards,

    Rachel

  6. Enrichment of records for Ibuk Libra collection in Community Zone

    I propose to enrich the MARC records in the Ibuk Libra collection with additional metadata (ex. author) in Community Zone. Currently, when we activate a local collection of books from Ibuk Libra in Alma (based on a purchased list of e-books), we see only basic metadata in Primo. As Ibuk Libra it is one of the largest and most frequently used databases of e-books in Polish and is often used by students, such supplementation of data will be very useful.

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  7. Peeters E-Books

    Alma has already an electronic Collection for Peeters Online Journals.

    Therefore I ask you to add the following three collections to Alma:
    Peeters Online E-Books
    Peeters Online Open Access E-Books
    Peeters Online Series

    You find the necessary content on https://www.peeters-leuven.be/index.php. As it is an existing provider, I suppose that you have already some contact information. On the website I only found very general contact information.

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    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We do not receive any metadata for the Peeters journals collection, and the provider is not interested in sending us a feed for the books or series either.

    Therefore we will not be able to create these collections.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  8. Add S2O years/volumes from Annual Reviews to the Annual Reviews Open Access Collection

    Annual Reviews Open Access Collection ID: 615300000000000045 has 9 active portfolios, however 29 titles are available open access for the year 2023 (with more to come). Could you please add these titles with Open Access beginning in 2023? The articles in these 29 titles for 2023 are open access now, and they will remain open access no matter whether the S2O goal is met for the 2024 volume. It is much more efficient for Ex Libris to do it than for individual libraries to add and edit the availability dates.
    Here is the list of titles with open access for…

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  9. OECD iLibrary going Open Access

    I sent this to the Content email listserv. And reply from Elizabeth York.

    Thanks for consideration.

    Hi Denise,

    Thanks for reminding us of OECD's switch to OA! If OECD wants to provide entirely new collection files to KB vendors, they could, and Ex Libris could load them, but based on the information provided by OECD, I am not sure whether that's necessary; it sounds like the content is not changing, but it is switching to OA. Assuming all the OECD content continues to be available at the same links, we could possibly simply remove our authentication methods (service-level proxying, in…

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    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Because this request is to adjust existing collections, please open a support ticket as this requires a different workflow.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  10. Add CDI coverage or portfolios for Qwest TV collection

    There is a database collection for Qwest TV, Collection ID: 615300000000000195, but the collection has no CDI coverage or portfolios. Adding CDI coverage or portfolios or both would be useful and make the content discoverable in Primo.

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  11. Cambridge World History of Food - Include in Bloomsbury Food Library

    The Cambridge World History of Food should be included in Bloomsbury Food Library collection but it is not, it is not discoverable in Primo: https://www.bloomsburyfoodlibrary.com/encyclopedia?docid=b-9781474208710

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    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Single title requests within existing collections should be addressed by cases for better tracking and quicker response.

    I am closing this idea as I cannot handle this through the process of new collections request, please open a case for this.

    Thanks,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  12. Include all content type on CIAO platform

    There is content on the CIAO platform besides journals and books. Content includes videos, research papers, policy briefs, working papers, country data and maps, etc. These do not appear to have individual portfolios. Could portfolios be created for these items to aid discovery?

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    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Unfortunately, CIAO cannot provide a title list for these material types.

    They will let us know once they can send us their metadata.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar

  13. Enrich Swank Records in Alma CZ

    Please work with the provider to enrich the records in the following Swank collections in the Alma CZ. They're very brief records with only title and not much else.

    Swank Digital Campus Top 1500 Collection
    Collection ID: 615450000000003937

    Swank Digital Campus Top 500 Videos
    Collection ID: 615450000000003936

    Swank Digital Campus Top 1000 Videos
    Collection ID: 615450000000003935

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    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hi Charlie,

    Unfortunately, Swank informed us they cannot provide us with enriched metadata at this time.

    Therefore I am closing this idea.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  14. bhanlon3@jhu.edu

    Please create a collection titled The Cancer Letter for two portfolios that are now in the collection "Miscellaneous Ejournals". Please make other changes outlined below as well.

    The existing provider is The Cancer Letter, Inc.

    The two existing portfolios are:
    The Cancer Letter: Portfolio ID: 53613678640007861
    The Clinical Cancer Letter: Portfolio ID: 53613678610007861

    They are both currently in Miscellaneous EJournals:
    Collection ID: 61613678680007861
    MMS ID: 991060498721707861

    The Clinical Cancer Letter became a section of The Cancer Letter in 2018, and that portfolio 53613678610007861 currently links to the Cancer Letter Archives. That is fine.

    Can a third portfolio be created in…

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    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Unfortunately we were unable to obtain a sustainable feed for creating a collection for The Cancer Project.

    I would suggest to create a local collection.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  15. Add the ebook "Beastly Modernisms : The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture" in the KB of the DB "De Gruyter Online"

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    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Please open a support ticket in SalesForce for this request, as this is for adding a title to an existing collection.

    Please also mention the collection ID to make sure it is added to the appropriate collection.

    Apologies for sending you to SF - Idea Exchange is for new collections, enrichment and authority vocabularies.

    Thanks for your support,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content PM

  16. Add America History & Life and Historical Abstracts

    These are both key history databases whose usage would no doubt improve if they were indexed within Summon

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    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Unfortunately, Ebsco does not supply Ex Libris with CDI metadata.

    However, these resources are aptly represented in CDI:

    America History & Life has 92% alternative coverage for the content in that database, and Historical Abstracts has 98% alternative coverage.

    You can find that information in the CDI list CKC page

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/Electronic_Resource_Management/060_Alma_Single_Activation_Source_for_CDI/050CDI_Collection_Lists_for_Alma_Customers#CDI_Collection_List.

    More about Alternative coverage can be found here:

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Content_Corner/Central_Discovery_Index/Documentation_and_Training/Documentation_and_Training_(English)/CDI_-_The_Central_Discovery_Index/040Alternative_Coverage_in_CDI


    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  17. Please add separate collections for OpenEdition eBooks

    Hello,
    Please add the following OpenEdition collections:
    OpenEdition European Studies
    Openedition French Studies Bundle
    We only see a large package of eBooks, but not these specific sets in Alma.

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  18. Science Signaling - Editor's Choice section labels

    Direct Link: https://www.science.org/journal/signaling
    Collection ID: 611000000000000017
    Portfolio ID: 531000000000893509
    Primo permalink to example: https://unr.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UNR_INST/adtd5q/cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_3040321938

    "Review" would be more accurate for items that are part of the Editor's Choice section of each issue of the Science Signaling journal. According to their website, the Editor's Choice section is editorial commentary on research. Can the articles from this section of the Science Signaling journal be relabeled as "review" to increase clarity?
    Source: https://www.science.org/content/page/science-signaling-information

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    Closed  ·  AdminAnonymous (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hi,


    Please open a support case to allow our support analysts to investigate this issue further.


    Regards,

    Rachel

    Senior Content Support Analyst


  19. Add American Chemical Society : Advances in Chemistry Series to Alma CZ

    Hello,
    We have this database in Serials solutions 360, but I'm not finding it in Alma:
    American Chemical Society :: Advances in Chemistry Series Code 3RK
    It has 255 eBooks and 1 journal.
    Thanks for considering adding it to Alma!

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    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    There was a collection in Alma for Advances in Chemistry Series, but it was deleted in 2022.

    We were informed by ACS that they no longer distinguishes their books as Advances in Chemistry and Symposium Series; all books are now under the ACS eBooks collection. 

    Since we do not receive a separate feed for Advances in Chemistry Series, we cannot maintain such a collection.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager


  20. Update Annual Reviews collection to be open access

    Annual Reviews titles have converted to open access but are still listed in the Alma Full Text Rights in CDI field as Subscription and as not free. Please update this collection to freely accessible.

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    Closed  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    Annual Reviews still require a subscription to have access to the full text.

    Although now in S2O model, if support is insufficient, the paywall is retained.

    Marking these records as Open Access is misleading, especially if the paywall is retained due to insufficient subscribers.

    Therefore I am closing this idea.

    Thanks,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Producta Manger



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