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Add "Exclude titles already owned" from GOBI Add titles by ISBN search

Add a checkbox to "Exclude titles already acquired or on order" from GOBI's "Add titles by ISBN" search. This function is extremely useful in the similar Alternate Formats search. Having it available in Add Titles by ISBN would allow my library to...
Guest over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Credit card payment of Gobi invoices on the platform

Eliminates the need for payment by business office. Can pay, reconcile and activate in more seamlessly.
Jeremy Garskoff over 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 Future consideration

Gobi Manage Folders sort - either preserve choice within setting or allow us to set default

Within a single Gobi login session, when I sort the Manage Library Folders list, I have to keep re-sorting it every time I follow one of the folders to do some ordering, and then come back to pull the contents of the next folder. And the default s...
Guest 8 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 Future consideration

show number of available copies

Show the number of copies available. This helps when ordering multiple copies. Knowing that number on hand ahead of time will avoid having orders cancelled.
Linda Nilles over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Search library activity by cancellation date

Each week we search our cancelled orders under "library activity" to update our records and reorder. However, we can only search cancelled orders by an order date range, then manually check the cancellation date of each title. The ability to searc...
Guest about 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow / Reporting and Analysis 0 Future consideration

Integration with library system

We need integration with our library system (Alma) to better expose the following within the selection process: current available balance on selected funds current holdings including whether we own or only have access to a book title
Guest about 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow / APIs and Integration 0 Future consideration

Delete file

I have accidently deleted selections. I selected the delete button, instead of print. My hand is quicker, than my eyes. If there were a delete file. I could have a second chance of restoring the selections, instead of have to go back to the select...
Guest 5 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

GOBI: Add Language search parameter to Advanced Search

This is about GOBI, not EBSCO search. The ability to filter search results to Language is in Standard but not Advanced search. I often need the language search parameter combined with options only in Advanced, like Content Level. Please add the La...
Guest 10 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Out of Print titles

We would appreciate an Alert for alternative editions, as soon as these are available, for titles that are out of print.
Guest about 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to select titles and give total cost in Select Cart before ordering

We currently have the ability to select 1, 3, and Unlimited versions of ebooks from different vendors. It would be great to be able to calculate the cost of these in the Select Cart before we order them. This would help the workflow greatly, espec...
PG almost 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow / User Interface 0 Future consideration