Request for articles from a non-lendable collection when journal is found in two collections or more, while using OAI holdings harvest for RapidILL
- Product: RapidILL
- Relevant for Installation Type: Multi-Tenant Direct, Dedicated-Direct, Local, TotalCare
Keywords: non-lendable, set, OAI, Rapid, Holdings, RapidILL, mapping, Alma, journal, collection, localonly, harvesting, publishing
Problem:
When a journal belongs to two or more collections, of which not all are lendable, your institution is getting lending requests for articles that are only found in non-lendable collection(s). Your institution updates Rapid holdings through OAI harvesting from Alma and you’ve confirmed the non-lendable collection is not in any lendable set.
This is an artifact of Alma’s publishing. When a title is published, Alma publishes all the collections it’s in – regardless of whether they’re in the set or not.
Solution:
This page used to feature two workarounds for this issue (one using Alma normalization rules, and another using RapidILL mapping files). Thanks to cooperation between the RapidILL and Alma teams - there is now a built-in solution for this issue, and no need for a workaround.
Please see our documentation on how to update your configurations to take advantage of this new solution here: More Accurate OAI RapidILL holdings.
- Article last edited: 05-Nov-2023