Request for articles from a non-lendable collection when journal is found in two collections or more, while using OAI holdings harvest for RapidILL

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