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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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PQ LibCentral Title Reports Enhancement request - please include copyright year
PQ LibCentral Reports Enhancement request - please include copyright year.
PQ Administration System Reports include the copyright year and so should the LibCentral Reports for librarians.Thank you.
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Date Title Added to DDA
Users would like to have noted the date a title was added to a DDA list.
**note - original Idea accidentally removed from list. We invite users who originally submitted/commented on this Idea to reach out to assist in restoring details around this Idea.
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Customising Ebook central Availibility message
Our patrons have IP authenticated access to all purchased ebooks and to access the full DDA collection they need to login.
We are now considering importing MARC with our DDA titles to our discovery system. However there is a problem - the link opens the title showing at the very top Availability message "Sorry, this book is not available. Please contact your librarian about purchasing it, or search for another book."
We need to be able to customise this message to a wording of our choice. Suport advised this is not doable for IP patrons.2 votes -
Add DDA_INCLUDE (manually added titles) to automated MARC record files
When automatic MARC record delivery is set up, items with DDA visibility turned on manually are not included in the record set. Currently, we need to download records individually or from the DDA_INCLUDE list manually. We would like these records included in the automatic record run, to streamline our workflow.
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Improve COUNTER 4 and COUNTER 5 Reports
ALL COUNTER 4 and 5 Reports
Please find a way to alphabetize the titles in all COUNTER 4 and 5 reports properly so that initial articles are ignored (e.g., a, the). For example, A Practical Approach to Cardiovascular Medicine should sort under P rather than A and The Craft of Scientific Presentations : Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid should sort under C rather than T.COUNTER 5 Reports
The COUNTER 5 TR-B1 Report lists titles in an apparently random order as the default. Please change the default to alphabetical order.The COUNTER 5 TR_B1 Report doesn’t…
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Add author names in ToC of editorial works
At the moment ToC doesn't show author names in case of editorial works.
Example: Information Literacy and Social Justice, edited by Lua Gregory, and Shana Higgins, Library Juice Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central1 vote -
Override login throttle
Every couple of weeks, a student will contact me for assistance because s/he has been throttled after making too many attempts to log in with the wrong password. I'm able to reset the account's password easily, but the student must still wait 24 hours to log in, and most of the people who phone me aren't inclined to wait 24 hours. Therefore, my only solutions are to say "Sorry, you have to wait" or to delete the account and create a new one, which obviously isn't ideal when the student's bookmarked or highlighted content.
Could LibCentral's user-management system be configured…
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Remote Access Requiring Periodic Re-Authentication from Institution IPs
Once a user creates an account from the instituions IPs, they can use those login credentials when not on our institutional IP's. We would like an automatic way to manage the expiration dates of these accounts via the platform where proquest would require users to come back on an institutions IPs periodically to re-authenicate their account, similar to what Clarivate does with their Web of Science: Anytime/Anywhere Access (see: https://support.clarivate.com/ScientificandAcademicResearch/s/article/Web-of-Science-AnytimeAnywhere-Access-or-Roaming?language=en_US)
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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.
11 votesThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! We will keep this in mind for future consideration.
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To add Brazilian standard citation format
I would like to suggest the Brazilian standard citation format called ABNT-Associacao Brasileira de Normas Tecnicas, in order to avoid rejection from customers.
1 voteThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! We will keep this in mind for future consideration.
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request to add Full Download detail information to Title Report
Please add Full Download detail information on the Title Report and title list (via Dashbord).
Title list has an 'EPUB Full Download Only' column but we need a detail Full Download information exactly you listed on LibCentral Full Record. Please refer to the attached screenshot. Also please add 'Full Download information' to Title Report under the 'Availability' section.
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Email notifications when a new title list is added to Consortia Content on LibCentral Dashboard
Request to email notifications when a new title list is added to Consortia Content on LibCentral Dashboard.
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Rqeust to add a hyperlink to URL under the LibCentral Book Details
Rqeust to add a hyperlink to URL under the LibCentral Book Details.
Please refer to the attached screenshot,1 vote -
Request to split "Consortium (Owned or Subscribed)" separately in LibCentral
Request to split "Consortium (Owned or Subscribed)" into "Consortium (Owned) and "Consortium (Owned)" in LibCentral.
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How to cite in IEEE format?
Copy Citation - please add IEEE Style Format.
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Improvement of the EPUB format interface.
It would be great if the EPUB format interface can be changed to be as similar as possible as the most common ebook interface that the majority of ebooks in EBC has got. An example is to have the table of contents to the left.
The current interface for EPUB ebooks is not so easy to understand when the reader is used to the more common one.
We also think, when setting the downloads to 0 for an EPUB ebook, (due to the current covid-19 we want to do that, so that as many users as possible can read it…
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Automatically email weekly usage summary
Our institution is moving towards Power BI to live present our data. Therefore we need a way to export that data from ProQuest in a format that can be identified and harvested by other Microsoft systems. An Excel spreadsheet attached to an email might be able to do this with Flow
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Move the carousel up to the top.
Those of us that don't have many titles, we would like to showcase them at the top. A little overwhelming, if this is your first time to the website then you start searching and don't find a title. Users may become frustrated.
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Titles that have changed to DRM-free
This month we received a file of 150 titles - 61 of them will overlay existing records in our system. I found out by asking support that these titles are now DRM-free but there is no indication of this in the spreadsheet -- could a column be added that indicates this information, or better yet, these records be placed in a separate file to download? We keep track of the # of titles added and by call # area to report for statistics to various agencies. Downloading and counting 61 more titles inflates our statistics.
2 votes
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