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.
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...
Gobi use of "subscribed" for OA collection confusing, change to more accurate phrase
Gobi has recently started using the "library activity" link "Subscribed [date]" on ebooks that are not in fact part of a paid subscription but in EBSCO's "OA Ebook Collection", which is free. To see an example, if you have selected that package in...
Acquisition workflow when ordering print duplicates of ebooks
Lately I have had to order print copies of ebooks that we own. When the print record finds the print isbn in the FOLIO ebook record, it attaches to the ebook record. It is a lot of work to remove the print isbn BEFORE placing the order in GOBI, an...
Add DDA-eligible=Y to the Standard and Advanced Search options
For those of us with Gobi DDA programs including manual "Request DDA", it would be useful to be able to search using either Standard or Advanced and have as a limiting option to only include in the results titles that have at least one provider th...
Allow a marker to indicate an institution's intention to permanently retain an item it has ordered or already owns, visible to other institutions in the same consortium.
The marker or indicator would preferably be added at point of order or later, possibly as part of a holdings load process. The ability to quickly see if my institution or others in the same consortium have committed to retain a specific item perma...