Upload Electronic Holdings from Taylor and Francis

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You can update Taylor and Francis electronic holdings for books by automatically retrieving the institution-specific holdings using an integration profile.

Prior to running a Taylor and Francis integration profile job, you need to activate certain electronic collections. See Activating the Taylor and Francis Electronic Collections from the Alma Community Zone for more information.

The Integration profile offers various scheduling options for the job to run at (Daily, Weekly, Monthly). Each vendor is placing their updated Electronic Holdings files at their own time, whenever the job will run it will try to fetch the updated files in case the vendor updated them. If not, Alma will attempt to do so on the next job run.

Creating the Taylor and Francis Integration Profile

To configure the Taylor and Francis integration profile for uploading electronic holdings:

Click here to obtain an institution token from Taylor and Francis.
Confirm that the Taylor and Francis electronic collections for which you are updating holdings are active collections in Alma. See Activating the Taylor and Francis Electronic Collections from the Alma Community Zone for more information.
On the Integration Profile List page (Configuration Menu > General > External Systems > Integration Profiles) select Add Integration Profile to open the External System wizard for configuring an integration profile.
For the Integration Type parameter, select Upload Electronic Holdings.
For the Provider parameter, select Taylor and Francis.
Add a description (optional) and select Next.

Complete the Upload Electronic Holdings configuration section using the information in the table below.

Upload Electronic Holdings Section
Parameter	Description
Active	Select Active to make this an active profile. The default setting is Inactive.
Institution token id	Enter the institution token ID that you obtained from Taylor and Francis.
File format	Select the KBART file format.
Group	Use this parameter to select one or more groups from the list of multi-campus options in the drop-down list. This parameter is optional, so you may also choose to leave it blank. The Group parameter appears when you have the multi_campus_inventory_management customer parameter set to true. With the multi_campus_inventory_management customer parameter set to true, you can have multiple Taylor and Francis integration profiles. When you have obtained multiple Taylor and Francis token IDs from Taylor and Francis, you may want to create multiple integration profiles using that identification information. Note that when you have more than one active Taylor and Francis integration profile with one or more multi-campus selections made for the Group parameter, any additional active Taylor and Francis integration profiles must have one or more multi-campus selections made. In this situation, the Group parameter may no longer be left blank. When the Taylor and Francis integration profile job is run and multi-campus group information is configured, the multi-campus group information appears in the job report.
Schedule	Select the scheduling option that you prefer to have the integration profile job run automatically. When you have the multi_campus_inventory_management customer parameter set to true, and multiple Taylor and Francis integration profiles, the first scheduling option that you select and save applies to all the subsequent, active Taylor and Francis integration profiles that you create. Note that when the scheduled job begins to run, all of the Taylor and Francis integration profiles that are set to Active are handled together by the job run. Any Taylor and Francis integration profiles set to Inactive are not handled as part of the scheduled job run.

Save the profile using one of the following options:
- Select Save. The integration profile is scheduled and appears in the list of scheduled jobs (see Viewing All Scheduled Jobs).
- Select Save. This saves your profile settings and immediately queues the upload to run. The Save button also appears on the Actions tab when you edit the profile. Note that when you edit your saved profile, the button appears as Run Now, and you can select to manually run the upload job.
When you press Save in a specific Taylor and Francis integration profile, all of the Taylor and Francis integration profiles that are set to Active are run as part of the job request. Any Taylor and Francis integration profiles set to Inactive are not run as part of selecting Save. Selecting Save from an Inactive integration profile does not run the job for that integration profile or any other Taylor and Francis integration profiles set to Inactive, but will run only for the Active profiles.

This behavior of Save is different from other integration profiles where selecting Save and Run Now runs the job request for integration profiles set to Inactive. This is a known issue. In order to have a Taylor and Francis integration profile run, it needs to be set to Active.

Activating the Taylor and Francis Electronic Collections from the Alma Community Zone

The Community Zone provides the following Taylor and Francis electronic collections:

Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete (Community Zone Electronic Collection ID = 611000000000000660)

Search Alma to locate these electronic collections in the Community Zone and activate them prior to running the Taylor and Francis integration profile.

Note that only the electronic collection and its service need to be activated (select the Activate this electronic collection service and Make service available Full Text Service options). There is no need to activate any portfolios (select the Manual activation - activate electronic collection and manually select portfolios Activation Type option). The activation of the portfolios is done by the upload electronic holdings integration process.