As of December 2022 CDI includes chapter level records from Ebook Central books, in addition to the book level recods.

The chapter level records are available (searchable and displayed) if the book is active in your Alma, SFX or 360 KB, regardless from which collection. They are not limited to EBC subscribers only, you will also see them if you subscribe to the book from another platform, as long as the chapter records can be matched to your book record.   

For now, the Ebook Central records include only academic content. The chapters' titles are representing the books sections. we are filtering out as possible chapters which do not represent meaningful sections of the book and chapters with no meaningful titles (examples: “Chapter 6”, “front cover”). However, due to the magnitude if the content and the various chapters in it, some chapters may not be filtered out. The metadata of the chapters records is created based on the Book record, therefore some chapter level metadata, such as the chapter's author, may be not available. 
Chapter level records are linked to each other and to the Ebook records via the related items feature (Primo VE, Primo, Summon), so users can jump from the book to the chapters and vice versa, and from one chapter to other chapters of the same book.  

The Ebook Central chapters are merged with other chapter records available in CDI, based on metadata of the resources.

Chapter records link to the chapter level on the EBC platform, using the same method as the book records. If you subscribe to the book on another platform (not EBC), the linking level can vary, depending on what the platform supports.

The chapters metadata does not include the start page of the book. Our tests show that this data is inconsistent between platforms and viewers. To make sure links are not failing because of wrong metadata used in the OpenUrl, we decided to not map the start page. in addition, because of differences between the PDF and the EPUB reader paging on the EBC Platform, links may lead in some cases to a page before or after the beginning of the chapters.

• Article last edited: 15-Feb-2025