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  1. Gale US Declassified Documents Online

    Hello, can Ex Libris please work with Gale to get this collection indexed in CDI? There are ten existing database collection in the CZ, but none have portfolios, and they don't have CDI access. Gale's page for the collection states that there are over 700,000 resources in the collection, so portfolio-level access doesn't seem realistic.

    Thanks,

    Kevin

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  2. British Library Newspapers Part 7: Southeast Asia, 1806-1980s

    Can you please add this gale collection to Alma? The other British Library newspapers parts 1-6 are there, but I am not seeing part 7. Thanks!

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  3. Add separate CDI collections for British Standards Institute (BSI) Modules

    Please add separate CDI collections for the various subject modules they sell. Currently, there's only one CDI collection for the BSI Group platform: DBID: EOT. Libraries can subscribe to a subset of the standards so there needs to be CDI collections for all these subsets.

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  4. Add: West African Magazines, part of Africa Commons from Coherent Digital

    Related to: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-content/suggestions/46772746-add-africa-commons-from-coherent-digital

    West African Magazines is an additional module we would like to activate from within the Community Zone.

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  5. Add Docuseek2 Complete Collection 4th Edition Alexander Street version to Alma CZ

    Docuseek2 makes their films available both on their own Docuseek platform and on the Alexander Street platform. In general, they first make the films available on Docuseek, and then once they work out an agreement with Alexander Street, the films are added to Alexander Street as well. We heard from Docuseek2 that their 4th Edition collection is now available from Alexander Street. However, we don't see a CZ collection for the 4th Edition on Alexander Street. Could Ex Libris and Alexander Street please work together to load a collection for the Docuseek2 4th Edition on Alexander Street? It should parallel…

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  6. Add new databases for Coherent Digital

    Please add the following databases to the 360 KB for Coherent Digital:

    History Commons: Indigenous Peoples Social Justice & Culture - https://history-commons.net/modules/indigenous-peoples-social-justice-and-culture/

    History Commons: Refugees, Migration, and Borders Social Justice & Culture - https://history-commons.net/modules/refugees-migration-and-borders-social-justice-and-culture/

    Thank you

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  7. Add OA Collections for John Benjamins

    Could you please add John Benjamins open access books and journals collections to the knowledge bases?

    Thanks!

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  8. Please add History Commons LGBTQ+ Social Justice & Culture from Coherent Digital

    Other History Commons collections are already in the CZ. Please add this one
    https://coherentdigital.net/products/history-commons/sjcu

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  9. Add new databases for Coherent Digital

    Please consider adding the following databases from Coherent Digital:

    Applied Science Commons: Public Health & Social Care
    https://appliedsciencecommons.net/modules/public-health-and-social-care/

    Applied Science Commons: Computer Science, Data & AI
    https://appliedsciencecommons.net/modules/computer-science-data-and-ai/

    Applied Science Commons: Applied Environmental Science
    https://appliedsciencecommons.net/modules/applied-environmental-science/

    Latin America Commons: Latin American History & Culture
    https://latamcommons.net/modules/latin-american-history-culture-live/

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  10. Enrichment of Community Zone bibliographic records for Scandinavian University Press (former Idunn)

    Enrich and update the Scandinavian University Press bibliographic records in CZ.

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  11. Oxford Scholarship Online 2025 subject collections

    Could you please add 2025 subject specific collections to the Alma CZ for Oxford Scholarship Online, including for the following subjects:
    Oxford Scholarship Online Classical Studies Collection 2025
    Oxford Scholarship Online Economics and Finance Collection 2025
    Oxford Scholarship Online History Collection 2025
    Oxford Scholarship Online Linguistics Collection 2025
    Oxford Scholarship Online Literature Collection 2025
    Oxford Scholarship Online Business and Management Collection 2025
    Oxford Scholarship Online Neuroscience Collection 2025
    Oxford Scholarship Online Philosophy Collection 2025
    Oxford Scholarship Online Political Science Collection 2025
    Oxford Scholarship Online Psychology Collection 2025
    Oxford Scholarship Online Public Health and Epidemiology Collection 2025
    Oxford Scholarship Online Religion…

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

    Hello,

    We are working with Oxford to obtain title lists for these collections.

    Unfortunately, we don't have a timeline for that.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  12. 2 new 360 KB - East View Databases

    Please add the following databases for East View Information Services (0 title for ERM purposes is fine):

    Global Geography Library: Thematic, Reference, Commercial, Educational - https://dlib.eastview.com/browse/books/5970

    Global Geography Library: Topographic - https://dlib.eastview.com/browse/books/6010

    Thank you.

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  13. Add CDI metadata to CZ records for Mintel collections

    Community zone collections from Mintel are odd. All have CZ records, but only a few have corresponding CDI records. The CDI records duplicate the CZ records but with better metadata. An example is "Mintel Beauty and Personal Care: China" (ID: 613860000000000186; DBID:ACFGR) The CDI records are labeled "market research" and have a full description. The CZ records only contain a title. Mintel recently released Shibboleth functionality (and the CZ collections were updated accordingly), so I need to use the CZ records so the linking works. The CDI records are all "link in record," which only works with a proxy. So,…

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    AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    The metadata Mintel provides is more suitable for CDI only, and although in previous years we have created collections with titles in the Kowledgebases, going forward we will only have the metadata presented in CDI.

    Please let me know which collections do not have metadata in CDI either in a comment to this idea, or directly to me

    tamar.ganor@clarivate.com.

    Regarding the authentication issue, I will consult with our support analysts on the best way to address this challenge.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  14. Enrichment of Community Zone bibliographic records for JoVE collections

    Please enrich those JoVE bibliographic records in CZ. Futhermore, please help to update/maintain those all JoVE collections which they are not up-to-date.

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