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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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Add country data to the Usage Report export
As an international membership organisation it is important for us to record which titles are being accessed from where. Adding a country column to the Usage Report would do this - if that's possible?
7 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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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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Change "Update Selected" or add link "Add to List" in LibCentral platform
In LibCentral, for ordering eBooks, to add titles to a list you have to choose "Update selected" which makes no sense for adding to a list.
If you provided a link to "Add to List" or change "Update Selected" to "Add to List" it would make more sense. You have "Add to Cart" in the license type, but if you do that, you still view them as a list then add them, so it's more time consuming. Just change update selected to Add to list.1 vote -
Develop a possibility to get necessary usage data automatically through REST API.
We would like to reduce a manual work of downloading usage data every week for our internal reporting system Tableau. So we suggest developing API (or even xAPI) service for getting data automatically.
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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Description and/or TOC search
I am writing to ask if ProQuest would consider adding an option to search eBook Central by description and/or table of contents.
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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OAuth
OAuth Log-In gewähren
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4 votes
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.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Inter-library loan of titles across consortial institutions
Would like to ‘share’ copies of ebooks with other institutions via inter-library loan. Of course, we don’t want to give our last copy, but it seems like we should be able to share our licenses because we are not creating additional copies. Ideally, this would work the same way returnables work. It’s also important that this not only work with Alma libraries, but libraries with a variety of ILSes.
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.
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Add a trigger stage to DDA Statements & Mechanism for accurately tracking triggers
ebook statements should be enhanced to indicate trigger stage (e.g. 1st trigger, 2nd trigger, purchase). Otherwise it requires manual reconciliation which is very time consuming. As well, there should be a mechanism to keep track of triggers even when a title changes price. Otherwise, customers exceed their preferred purchase settings with excessive loans.
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More refine options - Doody's, OAT and RCL titles
I'd like to request to add more refine options such as Doody's Core Titles, Outstanding Academic Titles and Resources for College Libraries titles.
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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Text customize in multiple languages
Currently we can put only one type of customized text for each field. We need a functionality to put text by every language so that the appropriate customized text would be displayed if any languages are selected.
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Download from Reader for Only DDA Titles
I want to enable downloading from the Online Reader only for DDA purchases (to force users to at least look at the book before triggering an STL), but allow downloading from the title page for owned/subscribed titles.
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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Show Price to Patron
Currently if "show price to patron" option is activate, the users can see prices for all access models. I want to request only the price of SUPO can be shown.
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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Export citations for "EndNote/Citavi" are in difficult to use format
Exporting citations for "EndNote/Citavi" appear to normally result in file download named:
biblioExport.action
The customer reports (and I confirmed) that doesn't open seamlessly with Chrome on a Mac with EndNote.
Customer asks, your KB article says the files "should be downloaded as a .action or .ris file into your Downloads folder". Why not always one or the other (preferably .ris files)?
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Would like to see an index/thesaurus in the advanced search section.
The detailed index/thesaurus would allow me to search more specifically by the criteria ProQuest uses in the indexing process--for example, if there are specific subject classifications. I would want to be able to either start typing a word in the index search bar to find a term or be able to browse alphabetically, then click on the term, which would either hyperlink to records containing that term or be able to add the term to the advanced search.
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