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EBSCO Ideas Portal

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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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 over 1 year ago in Selection Workflow / User Interface 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

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

View E-book licensing within GOBI for publisher/aggregator platforms

I would like to be able to see platform licensing (any restrictions on access and usage) within GOBI when I am selecting or purchasing an ebook.
Victoria Suslak over 2 years ago in Selection Workflow 1 Future consideration

Fund Code - Selector mapping

I would like the system be able to detect Who is responsible for selecting titles for which fund code to avoid accidental selecting "wrong" fund code for a title.
Guest about 1 month ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Mosaic selector workflow

Ability to add notes and "GobiExpress" feature to add information (adding fund code, etc.) to titles in search results rather than only in Select/Order cart
Guest about 1 month ago in Selection Workflow 1 Future consideration

Set default sort/filter

It might be useful to enable users to set up a default sort/filter for their search results on the new ordering platform so they don't have to apply the same filters every time as we do in GOBI. If they are often searching with the same parameters...
Guest 5 months ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Exclude publishers from search parameters

Selectors would like the ability to exclude certain publishers when searching in GOBI
Guest about 2 months ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Calculate Est. Net total for selected items

In the Gobi platform, being able to see the net and list price totals of selected items would cut down on extra work to make sure funds are not over spent.
Guest about 2 years ago in Selection Workflow / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Accessibility metadata for selecting: Features books have for readers with print disabilities

I would like to see the accessibility features of the book that is being considered for purchase. For example, is the publisher Global Certified Accessible through Benetech? Does the book have headers? Is it a correctly tagged EPUB?
Mark Weiler about 1 year ago in Selection Workflow 1 Future consideration