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This Ideas Portal enables you to share any ideas you have for GOBI, ECM or the upcoming new books ordering platform, as well as vote and comment on any submitted ideas.

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Content unavailable in my country

Do not show me or allow me to select titles and offerings that are not saleable to me.
Caroline Zappasodi over 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 6 Future consideration

Include links to new editions

When a new edition is available, please include that link in the older edition. Other book vendors include this and it ensures we order the most current edition. especially if a title has changed.
Linda Nilles almost 2 years ago in Selection Workflow / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Edit/Delete Library Note

User ability to edit or delete a Library Note
Guest about 2 years ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls 1 Future consideration

When an ISBN with hyphens is used to search, automatically remove hyphens

In ISBNs hyphens are often used (for example 978-981-19-7160-0). To be able to search by ISBN I have to remove the hyphens manually. With hyphens the result is 'No results were found'. It would be great if the hyphens were removed automatically (e...
Judith Gulpers over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow / Selection Workflow / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Invoice Portal

An invoice portal for all EBSCO invoices - no matter the product or service (GOBI etc.). It should be possible to view all invoices, check statuses and pay outstanding invoices. It would also be beneficial to be able to create deposit invoices and...
Guest about 2 years ago in Invoicing 2 Future consideration

Automated Holdings Loading

I would like a more automated process for loading my library's holdings to GOBI so that I do not have to check my local catalog before buying to prevent duplication.
Caroline Zappasodi over 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 3 Planned

Ebook PDF page allowance information in Gobi

Occasionally there are ebooks from EBSCO or ProQuest that do not allow users to download any pages. It would be helpful to have this information somewhere on the Gobi ordering screen.
Guest 11 months ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Preferred sort order

The default sort order of the results is 'Relevance'. I would like to be able to change that into Pub Year > Descending (to see the newest titles first) and keep that sort order (at least) for the next searches in the same session.
Judith Gulpers about 2 years ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

GOBI DDA title removal

For anyone that has DDA set up in GOBI, it is easy enough to request to have a title manually added to a DDA collection. However, there is currently no way to manually remove it. It appears you have to contact support to have this done. Please con...
Laura Vogler about 2 months ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition 0 Future consideration

Gobi needs search/filter option to include/exclude library owns already

Add an option to include or exclude "library owns/library owns alt ed" in advanced search, or alternatively add it as a post-search Filter. Or another alternative would be to include that information when Saving a batch of marked records with "ful...
Guest almost 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration