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Block access to notes during digital exams
We sometimes allow our students to access (specific) online books during examination. However, one of our students pointed out that he could then also access his notes (thus, prepare specific notes for fraudulent behavior). We then further realized students could also share their notes, add their answers during the exam in the form of a note and share them with other students. This is an unwanted situation and we would like to request a way to temporarily block access to notes during an exam. (Alternatively, we could download a copy, which is what I did today. However, since there is…
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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Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Pop up to inform users of implications of downloading to a public computer
At the moment there is a pop up that asks users whether they are using a private or public computer but no prompt is given for either choice - need a pop-up customisable by the library to explain implications of using a public computer
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.
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Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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1 vote
This 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.
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1 vote
This 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.
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Sarah Breiding
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Request to split out Academic Complete from transactionally purchased items
We would like the ability to split out Academic Complete from transactionally purchased items.
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.
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Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Track Changes in Access Permissions/System Settings
We would like to be able to track any changes made to our Access Permissions and other Settings.
An added benefit would be for an alert to be sent to those accounts with the ability to edit these settings any time that a change is made.
This will greatly assist us in gauging the impact of any changes made and in tracking trends.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 (ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com). We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
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Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Change passwords during the Monday - Friday work week.
This will allow library staff the opportunity to notify customers about password changes and will prevent customer frustration with being unable to access database information over the weekend and during holiday breaks.
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.
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Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Include order information in MARC records
We would like to request an option to include our order data in the MARC records supplied from Ebook Central purchases (currently available from Oasis). This will enable us to generate order records attached to our bibs when loading to our lms.
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 (ebooksPMAnswers@clarivate.com). We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to continue to participate in the Idea Exchange process.
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Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Counter reports should reflect usage for collection as it was on the dates selected (instead of as it was on the date run)
As it currently stands, if I run a report today covering 2018 usage for our consortially held collections, the usage totals only reflect usage for titles that are still in the collection (as well as newly added titles). It would be better if a report for 2018 usage included data for all the titles that were part of the collection in 2018. We have access to a couple large consortially held packages. The practice as it is currently in place results in a discrepancy of several hundred downloads in the BR2 count for Feb 2018 if we compare a report…
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.
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Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Peak period short term license increase purchase
A service that would be great to support select titles in peak periods, if you could offer a 'peak period' unlimited access license for a short period 1-2 weeks. If we are experiencing a sharp peak if we could quickly activate a purchase to expand temporary unlimited access to our students, we could assist elevate the access issues they have during crucial, stressful times in their studies.
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 (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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To generate the reports to get the titles by the ‘disciplines’ like Arts & Humanities
Hi,
Good Morning!
We are not able to get to the discipline level when generate any of the reports. Example: Arts & Humanities. You do have fund codes, subject headings like Science, Medicine, Pharmacy etc. and LC call numbers in certain reports but we need get the titles grouped under a particular discipline.
Please add the functionality to generate the reports to get the titles by the ‘disciplines’.
Thanks!
Have a nice day ahead!
With best wishes
Sunita Gandhi for Library Electronic Resources
University of Kansas Libraries
elecres@ku.edu1 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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Accuracy in EBA availability
Is there any way to make the “Not available” bigger, or to suppress the record in the first place? It’s kind of misleading….
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Improve order confirmation emails for GOBI
We currently place most of our ebook orders through GOBI. The order confirmation emails we receive from Ebook Central are pretty minimal. They only include the Title, Author, EISBN and access url. I opened a support ticket about this, but was told "orders submitted from YBP/GOBI provide limited details compared to the direct LibCentral order confirmations" and that I should submit an Idea Exchange request because it wasn't currently on their roadmap to fix this. It would be extremely helpful if these minimal emails at least included access model purchased. We make special notes for titles purchased with limited user…
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sports Analytics
Request to add the collection in the area of operations and analytics like sports analytics; R; Big data ; machine learning etc.
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Password repetition
For avoiding typos and also for safety reasons the password should be entered twice while creating/requesting a patron account.
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Export of Librarian Comments
It would be great to be able to export the Librarian comments in an CSV file. It would help librarians to analyse the comments and to communicate to stakeholders, for e.g. why DDA titles got rejected.
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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Be able to limit searches by pagination.
Surprisingly, teachers want to be able to select course readings by page length. They want to search for books that are say less than 100 pages, less than 150 pages, etc.
4 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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Allow customization of the Short Term Loan Alert email
We would like to be able to include the STL price and the purchase price in the Short Term Loan Alert emails that go out to staff, but those alerts are not customizable. They were customizable in EBL. I contacted support about it shortly after we upgraded and they told me it was not possible in Ebook Central.
We use that information to decide if we want to go ahead and purchase the ebook after fewer STLs than the default. Not having that information immediately available in the email means we have to go look for it somewhere else.
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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Move the option to clear highlights to a more visible location - like with the color options
Move the option to clear highlights to a more visible location - like with the color options
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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Access Member holdings first
As a member library of one or more Consortia, we want the option to give the patron access to the copy of the title that I own, when my holdings overlap with a parent consortium.
6 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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