Allow owned ebooks to be withdrawn
I would like us to be able to weed our (owned) Ebook Central titles in the same way that we weed our physical collections. At present, if we manually remove an item from the Ebook Central collection in our discovery tool, it is automatically put back the next time the weekly auto-update runs, which effectively means we can't withdraw access to ebooks we own. It would be especially useful in cases where we own multiple editions of the same title.
Emma Sansby
shared this idea
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Michael Whitton
commented
This issue comes up regularly, and we couldn't do this without really complex and inefficient workflows. Being able to withdraw / hide titles on EBC, and exclude them from the feed sent to OCLC would be really useful.
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Ruth Smalley
commented
This would seem like basic functionality. We need a way to remove old editions and other no longer useful material completely from our ProQuest holdings so they don't flow through to Discovery layers.
Ruth
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Julie Kliever commented
The ability to weed ebooks is absolutely necessary, otherwise we can't keep our collection current and relevant. All vendors need to do this. The ones that do it sooner will get more purchases!
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I totally concur, and have been looking to vendors to offer this feature. Ebooks need to be weeded just as physical books.
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Joanne Day
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We need to be able to withdraw or supress old eBooks that are no longer needed as they may display incorrect/out-of-date information that we wouldn't want students using, it is crucial to be able to remove them from our collections.