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Partner with Perusall.com to make Proquest ebooks available there.
Perusall.com is an online tool for flipped classroom teaching where students can collaboratively annotate the textbook for reading assignments. ProQuest should partner with Perusall to make eBook licenses purchased by universities work in Perusall's course content.
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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Alerts for new volumes of a book series
Our library is interested in alerts for new volumes of a book series. Not like a subscription, only an alert, so we still have full budget flexibility.
Or does ebook Central already offer a service like this?
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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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 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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Batch deleting patron accounts
It would be very useful to be able to batch delete patron accounts, rather than having to do them one by one. It would save a lot of time if you could input a list of names or email addresses and delete them all in one go.
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.
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Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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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)
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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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.
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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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…
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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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.
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Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Add print pdf button to Profile in LibCentral
Profiles are managed by only a few staff -- myself and 2 others. Profiles are changed at least yearly in our institution. I would like to be able to provide a current copy of a librarian's profile(s) so that they can review them and tell me what changes they would like. A pdf print button would be nice to enable this action and would provide a nice clean copy.
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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Ability to create Marc delivery filters
We would love the ability to create a filter by publication date and subject specifically for delivering the marcs for a subset of subscribed titles. We only want to add to our catalog the titles most likely to be used by our patrons which are recent STEM titles.
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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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.
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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Curated Topics
Suggestions by several business schools in the region for curated topics:
Big Data
Blockchain
Business management
Cloud Computing
Computer software
Consumer behaviour
Costumer loyalty
CRM
Design Thinking
Digital marketing
Digital transformation
Ecommerce
Economics
Entrepreneurship
Globalization
Human behaviour
Information systems
Leadership
Markerting
Marketing. Content
Personnel management
Professional development
Sales
SEM
SEO
Timen management
User Experience3 votes -
Curated Topics -- Would it be possible to customize the list? Example for users of healthcare establishments?
Derired topics:
Anesthesia
Cardiology
Dermatology
Emergency medicine
Endocrinology
Family medicine and primary care
Gastroenterology
Geriatry
Gynecology
Hospital management
Infection prevention
Infectious diseases
Internal medicine
Medical imaging (Radiology, MRI, Ultrasound, etc.)
Mental health (adult)
Mental health (children)
Neurology
Neuropsychology
Nutrition (Clinical nutrition)
Nephrology
Nursing
Obstetric
Occupational therapy
Oncology
Ophthalmology
ORL (Oto-Rhino-Laryngology)
Orthopedy
Palliative care
Pediatry and neonatology
Perinatalogy
Pharmacology
Physiotherapy
Pneumology
Psychiatry
Rheumatology
Social work
Surgery
Urology4 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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invoice
Since some resellers are obliged to print out invoices for the accounting departement, it would be great if the invoices could be reduced to as few pages as possible. This would save tons of paper and therefore help save the planet :)
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 (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 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.
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Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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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.
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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How to cite in IEEE format?
Copy Citation - please add IEEE Style Format.
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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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…
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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