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Would it be possible to enable hyperlinked footnotes in e-books that are available only in PDF format?
Would it be possible to enable hyperlinked footnotes in e-books that are available only in PDF format?
2 votesThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers (ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com). We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
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Clarify Availability messages in French - Améliorer messages de Disponibilité
The Availability message "Copy is not available for this book" is not accurately translated when using the French interface. It looks as though there are no copies available instead of "no copying allowed". I suggest the following text instead :
“Il est impossible de copier le livre intégral”
(instead of “Aucune copie n’est disponible pour ce livre”)Similarly the message " Print and chapter download are not available for this book" is not accurate in French. I suggest the following :
"Il est impossible d’imprimer ou de télécharger des chapitres individuels de ce livre"
(instead of "Il est impossible d'imprimer…1 voteThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Allow editing on title landing pages
Hello, we'd like to either be able to edit or suggest what appears on the landing page for e-books. Extraneous language about downloading e-books has been confusing, in particular when this is not required. Also, many students seem to be accessing through their phones, and we'd like to add language that explains how best to do that. I tried to attach a highlighted screen shot but it wouldn't let me. I am happy to send. Thank you so much for considering!
1 voteThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Persist Zoom Level
Every time when opening an Ebook (or re-load it after the session timed out once again ...) I have to adjust the zoom level to get an appropriate zoom level for my display. I use either my laptop display or an external monitor (4K). In either case the zoom level is too high, s.t. I have to zoom out first.
The following features would ease that (mild) pain:
best: have the zoom level persisted in the browser's local storage
good: make the zoom level a request parameter, s.t. I can have the zoom level fixed via bookmark
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Subjects are translated to patron's preferred language in Search Results
Sujets en francais
Après avoir exécuté une recherche, les sujets proposés sont inscrits en anglais, alors que l'interface est en français.Ils devraient être présentés en français
1 voteThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Patrons can export EBC search results
Export EBC Search Results to Excel/CSV
It would be helpful if end users could export their Ebook Central search results (and accompanying metadata) to Excel/CSV files. This functionality is already available on the ProQuest academic database platform and should also be available on Ebook Central.2 votesThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Simply E app
It would be great if the platform was compatible with the Simply E app, as an alternative to Digital Editions.
1 voteThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Imprints should be visible and searchable in patron portal
Imprints should be visible and searchable in patron portal.
3 votesThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Link editions/ Pearson versions
We have had turnaways from a 2nd edition of a book where we own the 3rd edition and have an issue now with additional copies of Pearson books having different URLs due to the removal of print/copy by Pearson. It would be very helpful if you could provide a link between editions /versions along the lines of Amazon's 'There is a newer edition' link.
8 votesThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers (ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com). We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Linking and re-running search
We'd like to be able to link into Ebook Central from another ebook database and re-run the same search on Ebook Central that was just performed on that other database
1 voteThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Add setting to allow removing 'Cite Book' option on Ebook Central
Harvard Referencing on Ebook Central does not match the Harvard referencing style used at our institution. This can sometimes cause confusion and inaccurate details on students' reference pages.
1 voteThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Discovery of resources - browse subjects
We have a strong curriculum of Arts and Performing Arts, particularly Dance, at our institution. Could Performing Arts - and Dance - be added to the 'Browse Subjects' page to make it easier for academics and students to engage with texts in those areas? There are already ones which have been created for Architecture and Fine Arts, which are very helpful.
2 votesThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Include subtitles in display for items added to a bookshelf.
Items on an Ebook Central Bookshelf are displayed using the title only; the subtitle is omitted. This means that if items share a title it is difficult to differentiate them when they are on the same Bookshelf, for example items that belong to the same series.
1 voteThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers (ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com). We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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By adding information about the licence model on the Detail page
Improve usability by adding information on the Detail page for books purchased under a NL model that the options “Download PDF Chapter” and “Download PDF” in ToC does not work unless you first Download the book (check-out). As I was told when asking about it, this information is available in Libcentral. However, endusers does not have access to Libcentral. I would also suggest that you change “Download Book” on the Detail page to “Download Book (check-out)”. As a librarian I understand what check-out means and so does teachers and researchers, but necessarily not new students with low library skills. Think…
1 voteThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Music Category?
We have recently signed up to ProQuest and love the resources. However when searching there is a great list of categories like Law, History, Science and Arts however Music is missing. Is there a way to put this in maybe under Arts?
1 voteThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Change the Availability Messaging on titles to be customizable
We would like to replace the current default availability message that occurs to patrons that have not signed in/authenticated, but have clicked on the ebook url link from library catalog or discovery layer. from "Sorry this book is not available. Please contact your librarian...' etc to another more meaningful message (for example)
"Please login to continue using this and many more Ebooks on ProQuest Ebook central portal"
If we can choose, we would rather have this workflow:
a. Find a title through discovery MARC records search in our internal search – click on the link – observe the title record…2 votesThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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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…
2 votesThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers (ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com). We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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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 voteThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Disabling the scrolling page number
There should be an option to disable the grey page number box from constantly showing and then disappearing when using the online reader. It's distracting and it makes online reader inaccessible to us who have difficulties with visual attention.
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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 voteThis idea is being closed as part of our annual clean-up process (criteria for closure: older than 12 months, fewer than 10 votes). If you would like to reopen this idea for future consideration, please contact ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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