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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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.
