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Ability to change landing page when user selects read online so that AI insights do not open automatically
Ability to change landing page so that AI generated insights do not open automatically
Some professors do not allow students to use any AI tools, so having the AI generated insights load automatically when a user selects Read Online as the default means they can not completely opt out of using AI functionality on the platform. Since we can't change the default to the book description or the table of contents instead, the only option is for us to disable the tool all together.11 votesThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Ebook Central Reader app
All EPUB books should be readable within this app. However, since libraries provide eBooks from various vendors, users will still need to use Adobe Digital Editions to download and read EPUBs that are not available through Ebook Central. This situation creates unnecessary complexity, which could be resolved by allowing users to rely on a single tool for all their reading needs. Users should have the option to use other EPUB readers if they prefer. While the new app looks great, its compatibility with only one platform is problematic when considering library collections as a whole.
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Allow individual users to disable 'Research Assistant'
According to the support page FAQ, the library can disable this for all users, but users can only toggle on/off. This annoying and disruptive feature automatically opens itself when first trying to search in a book.
The FAQ page says "End users want to use genAI tools". This is absolutely not true for many. I want to get on with research without having to constantly click away from this nonsense. It is now making me search for alternate means of access to works when I see that they are available on Proquest.
4 votesThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Book level permissions
Book level permissions need to override platform settings.
There is no easy way to have the default be to preserve the last copy for online use, but have individual titles override that setting. Essentially, book-specific permissions only override loan/download days (and, the point at which an alert is set for low loan days remaining).
So, the only way to have most 1U books reserved for online access but specific books available for download is to set the download days to 0 in access permissions and to whatever you'd like the loan period to be using book specific permissions for the…1 voteThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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The AI Research Assistent answers in a confusing mix of languages
Maybe you could add to the AI's system prompt that the answer's language should be in the language of the user's language setting. In my case, it keeps on switching randomly between German and English which is confusing. Furthermore, translating the UI of the Assistent to the user's language setting would also be ideal. Those reasons are keeping my library from enabling the assistent
1 voteThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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granular AI client settings
We have fairly granular settings for some things with PQ ebooks, but turning off the AI client is all or nothing. Any consideration for allowing a toggle at the book level for the AI client? Came up because a professor didn't want his students using the AI client for a book that was being used for a class. I wouldn't want to turn the feature off for everybody/all books to just accommodate one faculty member.
1 voteThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Clearly label Research Assistant as AI powered
Hi - many of our students are prohibited from using generative AI tools in their coursework. Currently, it is not clear from name of the feature (Research Assistant) or from the landing page that students see that this is a generative AI tool. It is only once a students selects Show Concepts or Key Takeaways that there is a small label indicating it is AI generated, but by then a student has inadvertently broken the rules. There is also nothing about how the takeways and concepts are identified in the help section for users (apologies if I missed it)
1 voteThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Ebook Central Research Assistant (AI)
It would be interesting to be able to know if the book is open to AI before being read in book page. By exemple, if the information is indicated in the same location as the book's details, such as the number of pages that can be printed, the description, the table of contents, and so on.
1 voteThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Apply auto-upgrades to a set or collection of eBooks rather than ALL owned eBooks
The default setting for auto-upgrades makes all owned content eligible for auto-upgrade when this setting is selected. For institutions that have been buying 1-user or 3-user models for a long period, moving to auto-upgrades could have significant budget implications. We'd like to be able to apply auto-upgrades to select sets or collections of eBooks (DDA pool, course reserves, assigned course materials) rather than to all owned content.
3 votesThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! The Ebook Central team has reviewed this idea and will keep it in mind for future consideration. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Move the "WAIT LIST EMAIL" field and remove other email fields when patrons are authenticating via EZproxy
Our patrons are authenticating via EZproxy when accessing or place hold to eBooks. They are confused when setting up the Wait List Email "first time" because they always enter the "EMAIL" AND "CONFIRM EMAIL" information that causing them unable to set up the Wait List email address.
1 voteThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Waitlist Suggestion
We recently enabled automatic upgrades/purchases in LibCentral with a threshold amount of $150 for each. However, now that fall classes have begun, this is resulting in multiple patron mediated upgrade/purchase requests for titles above that cost. Ideally, we would like to have auto upgrades/purchases enabled below that price threshold, but then have turnaways/waitlist options available for titles above that price. It would be nice it the setting wasn't an all or nothing for the waitlist option.
2 votesThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
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Separation of labeling of purchased eBooks and titles available via the STL
A separation of the labeling of purchased eBooks and eBooks that are entered under "Non-Mediated STL" with a price limit. All titles whose STL is below the price limit are labeled as "Available". This is also the case for purchased eBooks. A separation would be beneficial for users: e.g. puchased or owned eBook for purchased titles; "Available" for STL.
3 votesThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
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Add a public note field on eBook records.
We'd like to add a public note to individual titles explaining why they have a different download model than the rest of our holdings. For example, the textbooks we purchase are all unlimited use, but with no download permissions. We'd like to have a public note field explaining why the user is unable to download that book.
1 voteThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! The Ebook Central team has reviewed this idea and will keep it in mind for future consideration. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Refine search by Audience, e.g. Adult or Juvenile.
When I run a query on ProQuest Ebooks with the keyword "India," for example, the first results I get are clearly written for a juvenile audience. It wouldn't be appropriate for high school students to cite those results for an assignment and yet it could be easy for them to unwittingly use those titles. Likewise, a middle schooler conducting research on India should be able to filter for results that best match her reading level / age. The lack of this distinction is a significant issue and something that could substantially limit student use.
1 voteThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Generating usage report by IP range, not just single IP address
In LibCentral we can download usage reports for one specific IP address at a time. If you need reports covering a whole IP range you have to email support to receive that. It would be very nice to generate those reports from LibCentral.
1 voteThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
Best,
Sarah Breiding
Product Owner
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Display access model on the patron site
Currently patrons do not know what access model we have for the ebooks on Ebook Central. Enhance the platfrom to indicate for patrons the access model of the ebook (DDA, subscription, perpetual, etc).
24 votesThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! The Ebook Central team has reviewed this idea an will keep it in mind for future consideration. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
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Navigate back to results lists when previewing
Include a way to return to the results list when you are previewing a book. Currently the only way back is to use your browser back button, and then you see a back to results list.
2 votesThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
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Translation Tool
A translation tool would be really usefull, many customer have low usage of the platform because most of the text are in english.
2 votesThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
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Set number of turnaways before ebook licence upgraded
It would be useful to be able to set a minimum number of turnaways (ideally from unique users) before an ebook licence is automatically upgraded or additional licences purchased.
8 votesThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! The Ebook Central team has reviewed this idea and will keep it in mind for future consideration. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
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Put subject facets in alphabetical order and collapsed
Current facet choices for subjects is frustrating. Instead of listing them in a drop down menu in popularity order, it would be more helpful in alphabetical order. Collapse all the facets that start with the same word and have a drill down from that word.
1 voteThank you for your suggestion. The Ebook Central team is reviewing this idea to determine how it might fit into our future plans. We aren't able to provide a timeline for these ideas, but be sure to check back often and vote for the ideas you support in order to receive status and comment updates.
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