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Marketplace
Overview
The 2025 Rialto marketplace roadmap introduces a suite of enhancements aimed at improving user experience, accessibility, and operational efficiency. Key planned features include integration with Alibris to expand purchasing options, a new Subscriptions Page for streamlined management, and a “Predicted to be Treated” indicator to support user decision-making. Accessibility and usability will be elevated through an updated VPAT and an Ebook Accessibility Update. Users will benefit from a PDF invoice delivery within Order History, enhanced export functionality, and a more robust Leganto integration, allowing books on reading lists to be identified using the Query Builder. Additional improvements include better visibility of print item availability, ensuring a more intuitive and inclusive experience across the platform.
H1 2025 Enhancements
Alibris Integration
| What's new |
Highlights |
Impact |
| Rialto users in the UK will have the option to order out-of-print books through Alibris within Rialto. |
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Works that have unavailable print offerings from Rialto will now display Alibris offerings when in stock with Alibris.
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Users will be able to order titles through the standard order workflow in Rialto.
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Titles ship to UK facility for physical treatment.
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When opted in, Rialto users will have the ability to purchase a wide variety of out-of-print titles provided via Alibris. This saves staff an extra step, no longer having to search elsewhere outside the Rialto workflow for their content. |
Subscriptions Page
| What's new |
Highlights |
Impact |
| A new page in Rialto "Ebook Central Subscriptions" listing the library’s active Ebook Central subscriptions, and others that are available for activation. |
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A list of the most popular subscriptions available from Ebook Central that are available for activation.
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For each active subscription, Rialto will display:
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The entity that owns the subscription the library has access to (the university and/or consortium)
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Start and end dates
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Badging on offers in the marketplace that indicate the title is held as part of a subscription with the name exposed on hover.
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Easy access to subscription information to better inform selection decisions. |
Predicted to be Treated
| What's new |
Highlights |
Impact |
| A new field within the query builder, “Predicted to be Treated,” will be available for increasing the scope of quality content for searches and profiles. |
- New query builder field "Predicted to be Treated."
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Users can select how wide of a range they would like to cast – from an additional fifty thousand titles to three hundred and fifty thousand.
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Generates a list of titles that would qualify to be treated based on typical treatment values such as publisher, classification, award winning, highly reviewed, etc.
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Previously, users were only able to include Treated titles in their plans and feeds, which may have missed potential quality titles that had not yet been treated. Now, users can expand their results by including titles that are likely to be treated in the future. |
Updated VPAT
| What's new |
Highlights |
Impact |
| New accessibility audit with updated VPAT documentation for 2025. |
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At Ex Libris, part of Clarivate, we make every effort to ensure that our platforms—including Rialto—can be used by everyone. Rialto is continually designed and developed to meet Level AA of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) and Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act for features and functions. |
PDF Invoice in the Order History
| What's new |
Highlights |
Impact |
| PDF invoices handled by the new invoicing platform will be accessible from the Order History page. |
- When a PDF invoice is available, it will appear at the top of the order details for every POL associated with the invoice
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Staff will have easy access to the PDF invoice for orders; saving time and reducing clicks. |
H2 2025 Enhancements
Export Improvements
| What's new |
Highlights |
Impact |
| Expanded metadata on exports for all Rialto pages and an improved export process. |
- Expanding and standardizing title metadata included on all reports, and adding additional fields from the user interface display where applicable.
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Page exports are now a job, allowing staff to continue working while the job performs in the background.
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New page to access all exports (going forward) from Rialto.
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Staff will have more metadata fields available to them when exporting Rialto pages, helping them work offline. |
Reading List in Query Builder
| What's new |
Highlights |
Impact |
| A tighter integration with Leganto; in market searching/profiling for books on reading lists in current and future courses and/or by citation tag. |
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New query builder values for "Reading List Course Dates" and "Reading List Tags" that will allow for bulk searching of items in active or future reading lists or by citation tag within Rialto.
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Badging on offers that are course materials for current and future courses.
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Facet for current and future courses
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Purchases will link to the citations so that:
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Users will be able to refine searches and enhance their profiles to capture titles that are part of active courses in Leganto, enabling the library to fulfill course requirements with greater ease. |
Improved Print Availability Visibility
| What's new |
Highlights |
Impact |
| Print availability statuses will be present at the work and list offer level. |
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At the work level, when print offers are present, the fastest shipping estimate will display so that users can see at a glance if the print material is in stock or not.
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At the listed offer level, the stock status/shipping estimate will display on the line level as a new icon, just as we we do for out of print and not yet published titles.
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Providing the stock statuses/shipping estimate at the work and list offer level allows for users to make "at a glance" decisions about what to acquire; saving time and reducing many clicks to view the availability in the details. |
Ebook Accessibility Update
| What's new |
Highlights |
Impact |
| As Ebook publishers begin to send metadata for new accessibility standards, Rialto will allow for filtering and display of the new values. |
- New values in the query builder and facets will allow for filtering on screen reader friendly and accessibility information
- New icon for books that are screen reader friendly
- Full breadth of accessibility information available from the offer details
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Libraries will be able to ensure that the materials they are acquiring will meet the needs of students they serve. |
