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- "Collection/DB Lookup” field added for Delivery Content Cases on Customer Support Portal
- Activating ProQuest One Academic Collection in Ex Libris Products
- Activating ProQuest One Academic Collection in Ex Libris Products
- Adam Matthew Portfolio Mismatch to Records
- We have had incoming cases from customers raising an issue in the SpringerNature KBART title lists. Serial titles that have changed from subscription to Fully Open Access do not have a new entry to indicate the access type change in the KBARTs. The single entry is changed to access type “Fully Open Access” which is giving a false indicator that the whole serial run is open access, rather than just the years after the switch. SpringerNature is aware of this issue and is working internally, bu
- Adding a new Alma institution as an External resource.
- Adding a new Alma institution as an External resource
- Alexander Street Content Reload and Mapping
- Alexander Street Content Reload and Mapping from old collections to new collections
- Open Access in Springer Nature Title Lists
- We have had incoming cases from customers raising an issue in the SpringerNature KBART title lists. Serial titles that have changed from subscription to Fully Open Access do not have a new entry to indicate the access type change in the KBARTs. The single entry is changed to access type “Fully Open Access” which is giving a false indicator that the whole serial run is open access, rather than just the years after the switch. SpringerNature is aware of this issue and is working internally, bu
- Alma: ACM Freely Available backfile
- ACM has made the first 50 year backfile freely available. We are working with ACM to obtain title lists so that can create appropriate collections in KB's and CDI. The title list is expected to be available in 2023 Q2 at which point Ex Libris will create an Alma target.
- Alma: Adam Matthew CZ enrichment - Feb 2021
- Alma: ASTM Platform Change
- American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) no longer authenticates subscriber access on their old platform at www.astm.org. All access is now via the ASTM Compass platform at https://compass.astm.org/. ASTM is working on updating the links they provide in their KBART title list, and have stated this is a known issue and they are working on an enhancement to take Compass users to the Compass platform.
- Alma: Biodiversity Heritage Library collection
- Alma: Brill Collections Which Are Not Being Updated - September 2022
- Alma: Cambridge University Press Collection Renaming Project
- Cambridge University Press Collection Renaming Project Cambridge University Press has recently undergone a project to rename most of their collections to better align with the offered content. Content Operations will be updating the collections names in the Knowledgebases (Alma, SFX, & 360) to match Cambridge's changes. We will update this article once the work is complete.
- Alma: Client Submitted Title List Policy
- Alma: DOAJ - access to metadata disruption
- Alma: DOAJ - De Gruyter and Sciendo titles linking issues
- Alma: e-ISBNs in Elsevier ClinicalKey Books
- We have been receiving customer requests to add eISBNs to Elsevier ClinicalKey books titles. Elsevier ClinicalKey has stated that adding eISBNs is possible, and will keep us updated with project timelines.
- Alma: eLibro Content Changes
- Alma: Elsevier Freedom Collection Journals Annual Collections
- Elsevier ScienceDirect currently provides two KBART title lists for the Journals Freedom Collections, for which we have corresponding collections in Alma, 360, & SFX. Elsevier SD Freedom Collection Journals [SCFCJ] - This is the standard Freedom Collection Alma ID: 615410000000001961 360 DBID: AIKHN Elsevier SD Complete Freedom Collection [SCCMFC] - This is the standard FC + four additional Lancet titles, including the following: The Lancet The Lancet Infectious Diseases The Lancet Neu
- Alma: Elsevier ScienceDirect Freedom Collection Journals
- According to Elsevier Science Direct, in order to activate yearly Freedom Collection holdings, customers should activate one of the following general Freedom Collection targets. Once activated, select the titles that are part of the annual Freedom Collection to which you are subscribed. - Elsevier SD Freedom Collection Journals [SCFCJ] - Elsevier SD Complete Freedom Collection [SCCMFC] Elsevier ScienceDirect does not provide title lists for Freedom Collection journals by year. This does n
- Alma: Elsevier ScienceDirect Freedom Collection Updates
- In order to accurately reflect Elsevier ScienceDirect content, we are remapping the Freedom Collection. The following target should be deactivated and it will no longer have updates: Alma Collection Name: Elsevier SD Freedom Collection SFX Name: ELSEVIER_SD_FREEDOM_COLLECTION One of the following collections should be activated depending on your subscription with ScienceDirect: Alma Collection Name: Elsevier SD Complete Freedom Collection [SCCMFC] SFX Name: ELSEVIER_SD_EBOOK_COMPLETE_FREED
- Alma: Gale: Changes to Business Insights products
- In December 2022, Gale is changing the products offered for Business Insights, and is migrating customers to a new platform. One of the two current collections, Business Insights: Essentials, will no longer be offered, and libraries will need to select the other collection to get new updates.
- Alma: Gale: Linking Issues
- Alma: Gale - Multiple links showing for an article or chapter in the same Gale collection
- Alma: Gale Research Complete North America
- Alma: Gale Research Complete UK/Europe/GRC-A
- Alma: GFMER Free Medical Journals - June 2020
- Alma: Informit Platform Change
- The provider, Informit, has recently changed platforms. This change requires updating the linking syntax, creating and/or reloading knowledgebase collections, creating and/or reloading discovery feeds. The Alma, SFX, and 360 link resolvers and knowledgebases will be updated with the provider’s new linking syntax. The CDI feeds from Informit for Primo and Summon will be refreshed to reflect the provider’s new platform.
- Alma: KB+ Portfolios Without Article Level Linking
- These collections contain a number of different linking syntax and the system is currently unable to support more than one type of linking syntax within a collection. In these cases to ensure continued access to all the portfolios within the collection, Exlibris and KB+ have agreed to support deep linking for the majority of the portfolios but allow journal level linking for any portfolios with a variant syntax. Please see below for the collections affected.
- Alma: KB+ Portfolios Without Coverage Dates
- In some cases, often old newspapers and magazines, the provider is unable to supply the coverage dates. In these cases when ingested into the knowledgebase it will appear to the end user that full access is available to the resource for the entire date range available, even if you have access to only a specific period. To ensure continued access to these portfolios, KB+ and Exlibris have agreed that these portfolios should be ingested and recommend that a local note is added to warn end users of
- Alma: LexisNexis - removal of article-level linking for some collections
- Alma: LexisNexis UK - new Lexis UK platform and migration
- Alma: Links in Cairn Collections
- There are variations in the presentation of journal volumes and issues in the Cairn metadata which sometimes interferes with matching in the link resolvers. To circumvent this issue the Cairn linking parser is configured to match through the DOI.
- Alma: Liverpool Books Platform Change - August 2020
- Alma: Morgan and Claypool - site shutting down
- Alma: MyiLibrary e-collection Retirement Notification
- MyiLibrary upgrades to Ebook Central was completed. In order to maintain accurate and current metadata the existing MyiLibrary Collection will be removed progressively during the Alma 20184600 (November 18th) – 20184800 (December 2nd) CKB Updates
- Alma: Newsbank Access World News Research Collection - removal of generic collection version
- Alma: Oxford University Press All Titles Collections
- Alma: Oxford University Press Collections Migrating to Oxford Academic Platform - July 2022
- Alma: Oxford University Press Oxford Scholarship Online Platform Change - July 2020
- Alma: Perpetual Access Title Representation in SpringerNature KBARTs
- We have been receiving customer cases that SpringerNature titles that have ceased or transferred, but to which customers have retained perpetual access, have been removed from the Springer Complete Journals/Books title lists. Springer is aware of this issue, and is working for a broader resolution to where these titles should be represented. In the meantime, they will be adding the titles back to the Complete title lists manually based on customer cases. Please submit a support case with the
- Alma: SpringerNature German Language Collection Mapping
- In order to properly reflect the way SpringerNature names their German language eBook collections, we will be remapping some of their collections. There are currently duplicates in 360 of the German language eBook collections - the collections are shown in both English and German for the collection name. We will be removing the English collection names and keeping the German collection names, as that is how Springer displays the collection. Please see the attached spreadsheet for the proper co
- Alma: UTB Scholars collections
- Alma: Walter DeGruyter - Linking and other improvements - 2021
- Alma: Westlaw Law School Collection Update
- Alma: Wiley Online Library Free Content & Open Access Collections
- In order to accurately reflect Wiley's offerings, we are remapping the "Wiley Online Library Free Content" target and splitting it into the below two collections in SFX, Alma, and 360: • Wiley Online Library Free Content • Wiley Online Library Open Access We will update this article when the release date is set.
- Alma Community Zone CONSER Records Cleanup
- Alma CZ: C.H. Beck Collections Changes
- Alma CZ: EZB Collection Changes - July 2022
- Alma CZ: Gale Academic OneFile - July 2021
- Alma CZ: Royal Society Collection Changes - July 2022
- explains the differences between the Royal Society targets (OA, Free, Paid) and Royal Society S
- Alma/SFX KB: EBSCO ATLA collections using title lists supplied directly by ATLA
- Alma: AM Adam Matthew - Upcoming content roadmap
- Best Practices for Submitting Content Support Cases
- Brief Level Definition in the Alma CZ
- The level of enrichment for Alma Community Zone records is varied based on many factors and availability of MARC records. In order to make this information more accessible to the community, we have set up a scale to help identify the “Brief Level” of each record, with 01 being the briefest level and 10 the richest. Each record in the CZ has been reviewed by an automated process to assess the relevant Brief Level.
- Collections contributed by the institution
- Community Zone: CONSER record conversions (January 2020 - Present)
- Starting in the Alma January 2020 release, the Community Zone will begin to process conversions of CONSER records from print to electronic, while maintaining CONSER updates and quality control.
- Community Zone Monograph Records Enrichment
- Brief monograph records in the Alma Community Zone Central KnowledgeBase (CKB) are regularly enriched by Ex Libris using MARC records from several different providers. The schedule of monograph enrichment varies, depending on the availability of new eBook provider records.
- Community Zone Record Enrichment - Overview (April 2019)
- This webinar reviews the process of Enrichment in the Alma Community Zone (how bibliographic records go from brief to full). It gives an overview of Community Zone content and the ways that content is enhanced, and then takes a closer look at the process for Bibliographic record enrichment, including our sources for enrichment.
- Community Zone Serial Records Enrichment
- EBL/ebrary migration to Ebook Central
- If you subscribe to a package within ebrary/EBL and are migrating or have migrated to Ebook Central, use the following steps in order to ensure smooth migration.
- Elsevier ScienceDirect Open Access Collections
- GND authorities update issues in Alma CZ (January 2019)
- Hamburg University Press Program Collection
- How can I request new collections to be added to our Discovery Indexes, KnowledgeBases and the Alma Community Zone?
- How can I request new collection and data to be added to the Alma Community Zone, Summon Index, Primo Central, 360 KB and SFX KnowledgeBase? At the Ex Libris Idea Exchange, the Content forum is the channel that will be used for suggesting new collections and data, that you would like to see added to our Discovery Indexes, KnowledgeBases and the Alma Community Zone. Through Idea Exchange you can easily submit your own ideas, or you can review and vote on ideas posted from others from within
- Alma: SAGE Explorer activation guide
- A guide for selecting various collections in Ex Libris knowledgebases to represent the "SAGE Explorer" product.
- How to edit a Parser parameter or Coverage and contribute the change to the Alma CZ
- How to edit a Parser parameter or Coverage and contribute the change to the Alma CZ
- JSTOR coverage information
- Many failing links in the Journals@Ovid Complete collection
- My Portfolio was Deleted but I Should Still Have Access
- My Portfolio was Deleted but I Should Still Have Access
- National Academies Press Collections Update - January 2021
- Explains discrepancies between NAP site and SFX/Alma.
- National Library of Korea (National Shared Cataloging) external resource has been deactivated as it is not supported anymore
- National Library of Korea (National Shared Cataloging) external resource has stopped working. we contacted the library and they informed us that the search based on z39.50 has been terminated. Instead, they provide Open API based on REST which is not supported by Alma.
- New "Management Level" Indication for Community Zone Collections
- Ovid - WAYFless URL structure update (OpenAthens)
- Alma: Palgrave Connect Collections Removal
- To better reflect the Palgrave Macmillan collections after they moved to the SpringerNature platform, we are removing the historical "Palgrave Connect" subject collections from the Knowledgebases (360/Alma/SFX). Please activate the corresponding SpringerNature Palgrave subject collections, which have the proper linking. Please activate the corresponding "SpringerNature Palgrave" subject collection to which you are subscribed. Please note that SpringerNature supplies KBART title lists for the
- ProQuest Ebook Central Business-Day Creation of New Book Titles
- ProQuest "Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles" Collection - Business-Day Creation of New Book Titles
- Re importing of Catalan vocabularies
- ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources - February 2023
- Searching External Resources
- Alma supports copy cataloging by integrating the search and import of records located in external databases directly into the MD Editor. External searches may be done with any search target/database that is supported by Ex Libris Data Services and that has been enabled by your institution. External databases can be searched from within the MD Editor interface, and records displaying in the results of the searches can be imported directly into Alma from the search results screen. In addition, whe
- SpringerNature Complete Journals
- Wrong Deletion of SpringerNature Complete Journals/SpringerLink Open Access eBooks Portfolios
- SpringerNature Journal Title Deletions in Alma CZ
- Synchronize Changes from CZ Job: what does it do?
- Copies changed authorities and resources from the Community Zone to the local institution. Alma handles 50,000 changes at a time. If more than 50,000 changes are to be performed in the Community Zone, Alma launches an additional job to handle the rest of the changes. You can monitor the job under the "Monitor Jobs" tab
- Transition to EBSCOhost New Target Parser - December 2021
- EBSCOhost new target parser for SFX and Alma
- Upload Electronic Holdings from Elsevier
- You can both import and continuously update Elsevier electronic holdings by automatically retrieving the institution-specific holdings using an integration profile. For more information, see Setting Up Continuous Update for Elsevier Portfolios Using an Integration Profile. When uploading holdings using the Elsevier Upload Electronic Holdings integration profile, multiple Excel lines of the same ISSN and with different coverages are concatenated and uploaded as one portfolio with multiple coverag
- Upload Electronic Holdings from Ovid
- You can automatically update your Ovid electronic portfolios using an integration profile, which saves you from having to manually upload them. The Ovid integration profile uses the KBART format to retrieve institution-specific portfolios. The profile identifies the subscription and purchase values in the KBART notes field for monographs in order to manage the Ovid subscription and Ovid purchase electronic collections separately. See the Prerequisite Tasks for Creating the Ovid Integration Profi
- Upload Electronic Holdings from ProQuest Ebook Central
- The Alma Ebook Central Integration feature may be used by any institution that has access to titles via ProQuest Ebook Central. Institutions that participate in the PDA/DDA (Patron Driven Acquisition/Demand Driven Acquisition) program and institutions that do not participate in the PDA/DDA program can both take advantage of this facility to automatically activate the titles to which they have access via ProQuest Ebook Central. (Note that the PDA and DDA acronyms are used interchangeably.) The au
- What is happening to the Free Medical Journals collection?
- Alma: What is happening with Cambridge Core links and KBART files?
- Starting mid-day September 5th, 2021, we see all links to the Cambridge University Core platform failing with a 503 error message. Searches performed directly in the native interface also return "Error 503 Backend fetch failed". Cambridge was notified of the issue. On September 6th, Cambridge confirmed that the Core platform was experiencing some issues over the weekend, but that these issues seem to be resolved now. Should you still encounter a problem with linking to the Core collections,
- What is happening with Dawson content in Alma?
- What is happening with Dawson content in Alma Community Zone?
- What is happening with Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. collections in the Alma Community Zone?
- Why Using Identifiers is Important for Delivery and Discovery
- ISSNs and ISBNs are the most commonly used library standards to identify serial and monograph content, and are a required data element in the library community. In order to improve both linking and record quality, as well as increase traffic to providers’ platforms, as many identifiers as possible should be provided in vendors’ title lists and MARC records.
