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Automatically allow 7-day loan when 1-day and 7-day are same price
In LibCentral, System Settings, General Permission, DDA tab, we checked off "1 day" and "7 day" loan periods for patrons. Many times, the price for a 1-day or 7-day loan is the same. In this case, we want patrons to choose "7-day loan", because this will help keep costs down. Sometimes they end up incurring multiple 1-day loans in the course of a week.
The problem is, the patron doesn't know that the price is the same, and often checks "1-day".
Is there any way to force a 7-day loan when the price is the same as a 1-day?
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Allows users to move an ebook from one bookshelf to another
Users can copy an ebook to another bookshelf and remove the ebook from a bookshelf; both of these functions are very useful. A useful addition would be the option to move an ebook from one bookshelf to another, without having to copy it and then remove it from the original bookshelf.
4 votesThe Ebook Central team has reviewed this idea and this work has been planned on our short-term roadmap. Thank you for your feedback and support.
Best,
Alana DeWitt Johnson
Product Owner, Ebook Central
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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 votes -
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.
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Allow the ability to change the extended access settings for individual titles
This has come up when new editions of owned copies of titles come out. We don't want to turn off the visibility of the owned copy but we also don't want to trigger additional upgrades or purchases.
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Add Readership Level to DDA profiling
We would like to be able to profile by readership level, so that it is easy to filter out non-academic content which we do not want to acquire.
20 votesThis idea is still under review by the product team. We will continue to update our customers on the Idea Exchange. We appreciate your comments and votes as we evaluate and triage your great ideas! Best, Rayna
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Provide forthcoming ebook information, especially for new editions
It would be wonderful if you could provide information on when you will receive an ebook from a publisher, especially when new editions of print are available. I'm often asked this question when the title can't be located in your catalog but it is known to be available in print and the ebook is available directly with the publisher. Being able to pre-order these books would also be great. When I e-mail support with these questions, I'm often never provided with a response.
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request to add Full Download detail information to Title Report
Please add Full Download detail information on the Title Report and title list (via Dashbord).
Title list has an 'EPUB Full Download Only' column but we need a detail Full Download information exactly you listed on LibCentral Full Record. Please refer to the attached screenshot. Also please add 'Full Download information' to Title Report under the 'Availability' section.
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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…
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Bulk update Book Level Permissions for a set of owned ebooks
We would like to have the ability to run a job to bulk update/change the Download Days and Online Reader Loan Days in the Book Level Permissions parameters for a list of owned ebooks. Ideally, this would be for both making initial changes to the individual book permissions and for reverting the permissions back to the default general settings.
28 votesThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! We will keep this in mind for future consideration.
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Admin control to set the default citation style
I would like to be able to set the default citation style in ebook central as an admin.
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Find alternate solutions to manage downloads.
Find alternate solutions to manage downloads. Our license is with you, not Adobe. We should not have to give Adobe our employees' data in order for employees to be able to download fulltext books we have licensed from you.
30 votesThe Ebook Central team has reviewed this idea and this work has been planned on our short-term roadmap. Thank you for your feedback and support.
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Allow Libraries to host ebooks they own
I wish libraries could host ebooks they own on the Ebook Central platform. Sometimes we purchase ebook files directly from publishers that don't have their own platform and it would be great if we could host them on Ebook Central. This could be a value added benefit for Academic Complete customers. Alexander Street offers free video hosting for Academic Video Online customers.
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When institutions own a 1U and NL copy that Availability in Ebook Central should state that multiple copies are owned.
We have titles with both 1U and NL user licences, but on the library catalogue the statement is "your library owns 1 x copy" which is misleading for users.
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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 votes -
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 :)
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Rqeust to add a hyperlink to URL under the LibCentral Book Details
Rqeust to add a hyperlink to URL under the LibCentral Book Details.
Please refer to the attached screenshot,1 vote -
ISBN/eISBN with hyphens
LibCentral and Patron Portal should be capable processing ISBN and ISBN with hyphens
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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…
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