Ebook Central Chapters in CDI
As of December 2022 we are starting to index not only book level records but also chapter level records from Ebook Central (EBC) in CDI.
The chapter level records will be 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.
Because of the large number of records, the content will be added to CDI gradually over several weeks. Until the load is completed, you may not see all chapters for books available via EBC. This load is planned to be concluded by end of February 2023.
For now, the Ebook Central records will include only academic content. In addition, we do not include chapters with no meaningful title (examples: “Chapter 6”, “front cover”). In the coming months we will connect the chapter level records with 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 will merge with other chapter records available in CDI, based on metadata of the resources.
Chapter records will 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.
*In some rare cases, because of differences between the PDF and the EPUB reader paging on the EBC Platform, links may lead to a page before or after the beginning of the chapters. We are working to improve this.
- Article last edited: 12-Dec-2022