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.
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- Other - for non provider specific ideas
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Please add the Maruzen e-book Library collections.
Please add the following collections which are in the Maruzen e-book Library.
・複合辞研究 ―その成り立ちと広がり―（ひつじ研究叢書 言語編 ; 第114巻）
https://elib.maruzen.co.jp/elib/html/BookDetail/Id/3000160616・現代日本語における意図性副詞の意味研究 ―認知意味論の観点から―（ひつじ研究叢書 言語編 ; 第193巻）
https://elib.maruzen.co.jp/elib/html/BookDetail/Id/3000160619・副詞から見た日本語文法史 （ひつじ研究叢書 言語編 ; 第194巻）
https://elib.maruzen.co.jp/elib/html/BookDetail/Id/30001606201 voteHello,
"ひつじ研究叢書" is series title and the provider 丸善 is introducing it for sale or for marketing.
You do not have to buy all the titles of the series, so there is no need in a new collection.
Please select the relevant titles in 360, SFX, and Alma Marurzen Ebook Library (DBID:MOSFZ), and activate according to your agreement with Maruzen.
Let me know directly if there are any issues with the suggested solution
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Begell digital library : update journals threshold. The package includes 58 journals which should extend to "Present", rather than - 2018
Begell digital library : update journals threshold. The package includes 58 journals which should extend to "Present", rather than - 2018
1 voteHello,
Respectfully, please open a support ticket for this issue as this needs to go to a different team for analysis.
Requests for new collections or enrichment should be posted in Idea Exchange, while fixing errors in existing metadata should be tracked via support cases.
Thank you for understanding.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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add missing alexander Street collection: Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online
Hello,
Please consider adding this collection to Alma CZ:Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online
https://search.alexanderstreet.com/lado1 voteHello,
Alexander Street is only able to provide MARC records for individual collections. For Alexander Street packages made up of multiple collections, such as Letters and Diaries Online, customers must activate all the individual Letters & Diaries CZ collections that comprise the package.
You can use the My Electronic Resources by Provider tool to automatically activate the collections.
Therefore this collection will not be added to the CZ.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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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
1 voteHello,
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
More about Alternative coverage can be found here:
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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1 vote
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
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Add new Newsbank (existing provider) database Aeronautics and Space Flight to CDI
Please add Newsbank/Readex--Aeronautics and Space Flight: Global Origins of Modern Aviation and Rocketry--to CDI.
1 voteHello,
Unfortunately, Newsbank does not have CDI records for this collection.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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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: 615450000000003937Swank Digital Campus Top 500 Videos
Collection ID: 615450000000003936Swank Digital Campus Top 1000 Videos
Collection ID: 6154500000000039351 voteHi 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
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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!1 voteHello,
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
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Create collection for Nexis Uni Plus
There's only one collection in the CZ for Nexis Uni (collection ID 613780000000001685) but there are two versions of this product available from the provider: Core and Plus.
The Plus version includes extra content and, from my spot testing, it seems the current CZ collection is for the Core version.
Please create a new collection for Nexis Uni Plus and rename the existing collection as Nexis Uni Core.
1 voteHello,
According to the provider, there is no product they sell called Nexis Uni Plus.
If you have any other information such as a URL to this product page, or any promotional material that details this specific product, please forward it directly to me
Thanks,
Tamar
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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.
1 voteHello,
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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Add CDI Collection for Factiva Academic
Could you please explore the possibility of creating a CDI collection for Factiva Academic with links in record (no portfolios)? Many publications in Factiva have "Selected coverage" and therefore are not available at the title level in the CZ collection (Collection ID: 61111037301464000). This means a significant amount of content is not being represented in the KB and I think moving this to a CDI collection would improve overall coverage as well as have more reliable full text linking.
1 voteHi Charlie,
After reviewing the amount of metadata and its' potential, it will not be added to the CDI due to overlap and massive quantity.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Update "Math-Net.Ru" collection
Please update the "Math-Net.Ru" collection.
https://www.mathnet.ru/ej.phtml?option_lang=engI'm especially interested in the journals:
Izvestiya: Mathematics
Sbornik: Mathematics
Russian Mathematical Surveys1 voteHi Naavah,
Updating existing collections need to go through opening a support case so unfortunately I cannot update the collection without going through SalesForce.
Can you please open a support case for this?
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Bloomsbury drama online complete
Please add the Bloomsbury drama online complete collection to Alma. I am only seeing the Core collection, which is a subset of Complete.
1 voteHello,
Bloomsbury does not maintain a title list for an aggregated collection of all Bloomsbury drama online title lists.
Therefor we will not be able to create such a collection in the Knowledge Bases.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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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.1 vote -
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
1 voteHello,
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
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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?
1 voteHello,
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
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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: 53613678610007861They are both currently in Miscellaneous EJournals:
Collection ID: 61613678680007861
MMS ID: 991060498721707861The 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…
1 voteHello,
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
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BBC Monitoring indexed into Alma Community Zone
We have the Database entry for BBC Monitoring (ISSN 1350-8229) but could benefit from in-depth indexing of the type of content available to help unearth title level material.
1 voteHello,
Unfortunately, the content provider does not have any feed for the metadata to be indexed in the Central Discovery Index.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Please add collection for open access gaming journals
Many of the journals relating to the subject of "gaming" and "gaming production" are haphazardly categorized in multiple collections. Since this is an emerging field with a high percentage of Open Access titles, I was hoping that you could create a collection (similar to the "freely accessible xyz" collections already in existence) of free/open access gaming titles to collect them in one place. Attached is a list of suggestions
1 voteHello,
The freely accessible collections are not maintained by Ex Libris as there is no specific provider who takes ownership on these collections.
Similarly, we will not be able to aggregate and sustainably maintain a gaming specific collection since we rely on provider feeds and updates.
You are welcome to create such a collection and contribute it to the Community Zone for the benefit of other community members.
See more information here
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Create new database for Lawrence Wishart journal content
Please could you create a new database for Lawrence Wishart journal content (https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/ ), since we subscribe to some of their journals
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