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Academic Complete package creates bespoke links to topic areas within the subscription database e.g. Diversity Equality Inclusion
That the Academic Complete package creates bespoke links to topic areas within the subscription database such as the Diversity Equality Inclusion Collection title lists. Such bespoke searchable collection links could easily be copied and inserted in to Library marketing/social media communications and promotions on Awareness days such as International Women’s Day. Also collection links set up for perpetual access University funded Customized Collections such as The Self-Care Collection. This would increase visibility of the individual collection, target key audiences, increase value for money and promotes the ProQuest product across a new wider audience resulting in greatly increased usage.
2 votesThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
Best,
Alana DeWitt Johnson
Product Owner, Ebook Central
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Highlight on mobile
Currently, to highlight on a mobile device such as an iPad, each word has to be tapped individually. This is very time consuming and laborious. I would like to see the ability to highlight multiple words at once as is possible on a computer, for example dragging across the screen with a finger and/or mobile pencil to highlight the desired portion.
I use digital textbooks as an affordable and convenient alternative to hard copies and having them on my iPad makes them easy to access and interact with. I believe this would benefit many students as iPads continue to increase…
2 votesThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
Best,
Alana DeWitt Johnson
Product Owner, Ebook Central
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extend customizability
Please make more texts and messages (e.g. in the login window) customizable.
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Patrons can see when a newer edition is available
new edition
Indiquer clairement qu'une nouvelle édition est disponible.
Par exemple pour le titre Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents and Young Adults5 votes -
When Accessibility Mode has been enabled, return the user to their previous location.
Currently users are returned to an Ebook Central search page. From there they have to search for, correctly identify and re-access the book they were reading, and navigate back to the location within the book where they were when they changed their accessibility setting. For users who navigated in via their institution's Catalogue record for the book, this can be confusing and disorienting.
8 votesThank you for your suggestion for improving Ebook Central. We will keep this in mind for future consideration. In the meantime, please continue to vote and comment with ways this functionality might help your experience.
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Include a direct link from the menu bar to the Accessibility Settings
Currently the settings are accessible via Settings > Profile. Including a direct link would reduce steps for users with disabilities.
7 votesAs part of our ongoing commitment to a modern and intuitive platform, we have simplified the global navigation bar to include a direct link to the Profile. At present, these updates will only be visible on the Search Results page. However, as we progress with our updates, they will appear in additional locations throughout Ebook Central.
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Username Login Prompt
Include a prompt on the login page that helps a user remember that their username could actually be their email address. Too many users forget their username (especially over the summer break) and then create new accounts and are shocked when they cannot find their bookshelf. Having some kind of prompt is ideal.
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To send notification when a book is about to be returned online
It would be good if users got a notification when a book they were borrowing online was about to be returned. We have users that have lost notes because they made notes on Adobe DE and then when the book was returned and then re-loaned the notes were not there.
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Better Search Experience - Some Miscellaneous Ideas for Finding Content More Effectively
A set of ideas from a librarian who would love to see enhancements to the search interface and the lists that are provided within the system.
Who is curating the list?
How often is it updated?
How is it updated/description of what’s on the list
More specific lists (i.e. Social Justice is great, but it’s way too broad for practical reasons and should be narrower by specific SJ topic)Better filtering:
Popularity within LibCentral
Critical Acclaim
Awards
Community Selections/Picks
Highlights/Spotlights around specific events or contexts
Promotions/Sale Items
Review ratings (like Amazon)
New releases/future releases
Rather than “year of publication,” which…3 votes -
Remove requirement for patrons to log in when downloading a DRM free title.
I would like to see the removal of th requirement for users to login on title that are DRM-free. I see this as removing an extra step and relieving some of the frustrations that some of our users experience.
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Add a 'Recent additions' carousel along with the 'Recently viewed' one
We regularly purchase additional titles to our package and we would like to promote those to our patrons. We are a specialised library and it would be good to be able to highlight those titles that have been chosed specifically for our patrons. Other e-book platforms have such carousels in place.
5 votesThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! We will keep this in mind for future consideration.
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Update citation styles offered, and describe these more fully
The version of the Chicago style offered in Ebook Central is not the latest - could it be updated? There may be other citation styles that would benefit from updating too. Please also let readers see which version of each citation style is available - e.g. labelling it as Chicago/Turabian - Notes-Bibliography (17th edition) rather than just Chicago/Turabian - Notes-Bibliography. These two improvements would bring Ebook Central into line with other ProQuest/ExLibris products such as Art & Architecture Archive and Summon.
4 votesThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! We will keep this in mind for future consideration.
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Patrons can change view option in the reader
Ebook viewing options
Offer a two page view for ebooks. This would be particularly useful for graphic novels and material with graphics and tables. Adding a thumbnail option would also be a good idea10 votesThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! We will keep this in mind for future consideration.
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Ebooks: Make accessibility settings suitable for disabilities.
For accessibility with text to speech, I'd like the option to centralise the reading area on screen by hiding the book details like the non-accessible version allows, and add easy to find ways to increase size too.
This is for the benefit of less mobile readers following along, as looking to the right will cause either neck or eye strain as desk setups are usually optimised for safe working with as little turning of the head as possible, especially when engaging with lengthy documents.4 votes -
Patrons can change the color of the page in the reader
Ability to change page colour to a more muted one, as plain white is hard on the eye over a long period, this function is already in many other digital readers.
12 votesThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! We will keep this in mind for future consideration.
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Mediate Request library preferences
For mediated requests and the mediate request form, we also have our settings set as "No" for mediated requests, and yet the system overrides the library's expressed preferences for mediated requests by providing users a mediate request form when the user limit has been exceeded for a title. The library's expressed preferences should take precedence over the system.
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Allowing only a specific email domain for account creation
Allowing only a specific email domain (the one of the institution) for account creation (via IP)
26 votesThank you for your suggestion for improving Ebook Central. We will keep this in mind for future consideration. In the meantime, please continue to vote and comment with ways this functionality might help your experience.
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Allow user to save ebook to more than one bookshelf from the book info page
On the info page ("Table of Contents and more") for an ebook, users can click the button to save the ebook to the bookshelf, but it's not possible to save it to an additional bookshelf from that same page. Users can go to the bookshelf and then copy the ebook to an additional bookshelf; it would be more intuitive if this were possible on the ebook info page as well.
4 votesThe Ebook Central team has reviewed this idea and this work has been planned on our short-term roadmap. Thank you for your feedback and support.
Best,
Alana DeWitt Johnson
Product Owner, Ebook Central
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Invert colors for accessibility
Those with dyslexia and eyesight problems have difficulty reading when the background is white and the letters are black.
The online reader overrides the desktop inverse color for the reader, so it's not possible for me to invert the colors in the reader--so it's very difficult for me to read the text in the reader.
For greater accessibility, it should be possible to invert the colors. Thanks!5 votesThank you for your suggestion for improving Ebook Central. We will keep this in mind for future consideration. In the meantime, please continue to vote and comment with ways this functionality might help your experience.
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Normalize Highlighting
Highlighting sentences is inconsistent where it either highlights the sentence continuously or highlights each individual word. The latter creates a distracting white lattice of un-highlighted space over the text which makes it very difficult to read.
8 votes
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