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  1. Add a new vocabulary in the CZ

    We have in NZ of CCUC (Catalan Union Catalog) a vocabulary in Catalan that is a controlled language used for indexing the genre or form and it can be used in bibliographic records together with any other subject heading system. Its use is of interest to any library that uses Catalan as the language of the catalog (for example, libraries in Andorra, the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands, etc.). Some of these libraries use ALMA and have requested that this vocabulary be accessible in the CZ in order to use it.
    Therefore, we request the indexing of the TGFC vocabulary…

    48 votes
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  2. Alma Community Zone collection for Brepols open access ebooks

    Brepols Publishing publishes open access ebooks and I am interested in making them discoverable via Primo VE. Alma’s Community Zone does not have a distinct collection for this content. Information about the books, along with an option to export the titles into an Excel spreadsheet, is available at https://www.brepols.net/products?p=1&r=12&s=&v=thumbview&q=$Availability:Open%20Access;$ProductType:Book

    Creating a Brepols Open Access ebooks Community Zone collection would help to facilitate discovery of these resources.

    14 votes
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    Already Supported  ·  AdminTamar Ganor (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We have the following collection:

    Brepols Open Access, Collection ID: 61563712050000041

    This collection includes Brepols OA books and journals.

    Kind regards,

    Tamar Ganor

    Content Product Manager

  3. EuroVoc Thesaurus implementation

    Add EuroVoc http://eurovoc.europa.eu to Authority Vocabulary.
    It is the multilingual, multidisciplinary thesaurus covering the activities of the EU.

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