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  1. ProQuest Legislative Insight 2024 & ProQuest Legislative Insight 2025

    ProQuest offers annual modules on the ProQuest Legislative Insight platform, and several are already in the CZ as database collections with CDI link in record records. For example:

    ProQuest Legislative Insight 2020, 614940000000000105
    ProQuest Legislative Insight 2021, 614940000000000227
    ProQuest Legislative Insight 2022, 614940000000000302
    ProQuest Legislative Insight 2023, 615500000000000169

    However, there are no year-specific CZ collections for 2024 and 2025. There is a CZ collection for ProQuest Legislative Insight 2024-forward (614940000000000401), but we don't want to activate that one, as we haven't purchased an ongoing subscription (i.e. all content going forward). We purchased 2024 and 2025 as discrete years and won't…

    1 vote
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  2. Change Library Stack to full title collection

    Please change the collection "Library Stack" from a zero-title database to a full title collection. We are subscribers to Library Stack and we would appreciate this change to fully benefit from this subscription.
    Collection ID: 6122238660000041
    Collection Name: Library Stack

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

    Hello,

    We are working with the provider to review our options, the Knowledgebases do not represent well some of the content types that are included in this collection.

    I will update this idea once we make progress.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  3. Add Content

    Please add the following content to the Knowledgebase so that it can be searchable in Summon and the ejournal portal ProQuest Congressional Hearings Digital Collection Part R (2025) and the ProQuest Congressional Research Digital Collection Part Q (2025)

    1 vote
    1 comment  ·  Existing provider  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    ProQuest Congressional Hearings Digital Collection: Part Q (2024), collection ID 614940000000000427 is available, should there also be one for 2025?

    We will work on adding ProQuest Congressional Hearings Digital Collection pare R.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  4. EBSCO ebooks German

    Please create a new CZ e-collection for EBSCO eBooks German collection (https://research.ebsco.com/c/h32dqq?db=e085tww). Title list (September 2024) attached, current data can be obtained from EBSCO (Katharina Bewer <kbewer(at)EBSCO.COM> )

    3 votes
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  5. add missing Gale collections to Alma

    American Civil War: The International Context Digital Archive
    American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society, Part VIII Digital Archive
    British Library Newspapers Part 7: Southeast Asia, 1806-1980s Digital Archive
    China and the Modern World: Regional China and the West Digital Archive
    Latino Social and Political Culture and History: Perspectives on the Chicano Movement Digitall Archive
    Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection Part 2 Digital Archive
    State Papers Online Colonial: Asia Part III: Malay States Digital Archive
    Telegraph Historical Archive: 2017-2021 Supplement Digital Archive
    The International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent, 1919-1994 Digital Archive

    1 vote
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  6. Add missing gale archives unbound collections to Alma

    AU: First U.S. Army Report of Operations, 20 October 1943-8 May 1945
    AU: Ford Administration and Human Rights
    AU: Papers of American Missionaries to Asia: Missionaries associated with the Philippines 1942-1965
    AU: Papers of American Missionaries to Asia: Missionaries associated with China and India, 1818-1972
    AU: Papers of American Missionaries to Asia: Missionaries associated with South and West Asia, 1914
    AU: State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee and State-Army-Navy-Air Force Coordinating Committee Files
    AU: United States and France: Correspondence Dealing with Economic Relations, 1811-1930

    1 vote
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  7. Enrich Manchester University Press MARC Records with Provider Metadata

    Hello,

    Could Ex Libris please enrich Manchester University Press ebook records in the CZ with provider metadata?

    CZ collection IDs are:
    615490000000000250
    61464937760000041
    615490000000000251

    I've noticed many brief records in the open access collection (ID 615490000000000251)

    1 vote
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  8. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection, Part II

    Gale has now made available a "Part 2" to an existing collection, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection. It can be purchased separately from the original collection, so should be set up separately. See more information here:

    https://www.gale.com/c/17th-and-18th-century-burney-newspapers-collection-part-ii
    https://www.gale.com/primary-sources/historical-newspapers
    https://www.gale.com/binaries/content/assets/gale-us-en/intl-assets/intl-assets-uk--europe/gale-primary-sources-assets/seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century-burney-newspapers-collection-part-ii---factsheet.pdf

    Can it please be added to the CKB?

    4 votes
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  9. Naxos Sheet Music Library

    Since Naxos Music Library is supported, can records for their Sheet Music Library be added into the CDI, please?

    The content changes monthly, but the vendor told us they send updated lists (spreadsheets) to libraries upon request.

    Vendor website: https://publishing.naxos.com/

    1 vote
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  10. Could you please help contact Wiley and add Wiley Online Library UBCM SciTech collections in CZ?

    Could you please help contact Wiley and add Wiley Online Library UBCM SciTech collections in CZ?
    Thanks a lot.
    Best,
    Angela

    1 vote
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  11. Routledge Resources Online - Medieval Studies

    Please add the following database to the Community Zone:

    Provider: Routledge
    Database: Routledge Resources Online - Medieval Studies
    Access URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/rroms/?context=rroms
    Additional information from the vendor: https://librarianresources.taylorandfrancis.com/product-info/digital-products/online-resources/routledge-resources-online/

    Thank you!

    0 votes
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  12. Add Open Access eBooks from the Publisher Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, Germany to the Knowledgebases

    The Wallstein Verlag has published a number of open access eBooks in the humanities, and the number is increasing.
    It would be fantastic if these OA eBooks could be made available as an eCollection in ALMA.
    https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/open-access-books.html
    Thanks so much
    Best Matthias

    36 votes
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  13. Sage Business Cases Indigenous Business Stories Project

    Sage, one of Ex Libris's existing provider partners, has launched a new free Business Cases collection, the Indigenous Business Stories Project. According to Sage, this is a free collection that features studies of businesses founded by Indigenous entrepreneurs. Sage says this collection will give students an understanding of sustainable, community-driven business practices. This collection will expand the global business perspectives represented in CZ content, and because it is free to access, many libraries will likely be interested in activating it in the CZ. Sage says they have already submitted their file to Ex Libris, so we hope it will be…

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

    Hello Elizabeth,

    We are checking with Sage if the Sage Business Cases Indigenous Business Stories Project are included in the current feed of SAGE Business Cases Full Collection (Collection ID: 614920000000005407).

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  14. Brill Palestine: The British Mandate, 1917–1948

    Can Brill Palestine: The British Mandate, 1917–1948 collection please be added to Alma?

    1 vote
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  15. Brill Palestine: The Legal Background

    Can Brill Palestine: The Legal Background collection please be added to Alma?

    1 vote
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  16. Brill Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online

    Can Brill Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online collection please be added to Alma?

    1 vote
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  17. Add Database: Routledge Resources Online - The Renaissance World

    Please add the following database to the 360 KB (0 title for ERM purposes is fine)

    Provider: Routledge
    Database: Routledge Resources Online - The Renaissance World
    URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/rrorw

    Thank you,

    3 votes
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  18. request new collections to be added [NII-REO Cambridge University Press]

    Collection: NII-REO: Cambridge University Press

    Provider: National Institute of Informatics

    Titles: 195

    URL: https://reo.nii.ac.jp/oja/HtmlIndicate/html/journal/publishers/SUP0000009000.html

    title list: https://reo.nii.ac.jp/oja/HtmlIndicate/html/titlelist/titlelist_reo.tsv

    Thanks.

    14 votes
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  19. Please add/update Salesianum entry; provider code PRVHMA

    Please add or update Salesianum (ISSN 0036-3502). It is in the 360 KB but not in a way that reflects its current subscription (not open access) and location (URL).

    Title: Salesianum
    ISSN: 0036-3502
    URL:
    https://salesianum.unisal.it/en/
    https://salesianum.unisal.it/it/

    Contact: salesianum@unisal.it

    Publisher: Universita Pontificia Salesiana (which I think is the provider at code PRVHMA in the 360 KB)

    1 vote
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  20. 2025 Lived Places Publishing Library Collection

    Can 2025 Lived Places Publishing Library Collection please be added to Alma?

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

    Hello,

    We are working with Lived Places to create the 2025 collection.

    Please be advised that according to the provider, the first titles in the 2025 collection will release in June.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

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