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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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Add "Frequency" field in GOBI Continuations Bib records

There is no frequency metadata field in the GOBI bib records when you do a "Library Continuations" search (quarterly, annual, biennial, semiannual, etc.). Is there any way to make this data appear in GOBI Contins bibs in the future? Other book ven...
Guest 9 months ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Allow user to set basic limits one time but changeable as needed. Ex: no abridged books, certain language, ebooks or audiobooks.

Would like to stop checking the same limits or exclusions with each new session or searches.
Jo Shimmin almost 2 years ago in User Interface 1 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 over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Additional filters in personal folders

After moving a title into the Select Cart and ordering, a slip will still remain in my folder. I don't want it deleted right away, so that's ok. Once it's ordered and invoiced, the slip will say "Shipped" and I'll have a lot of those left in the f...
PG over 1 year ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Default Ebook Setting

Our library is digital first so would appreciate a default setting to avoid having to filter to ebook for every title search.
Guest 10 months ago in Acquisition Workflow / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add subject heading filters to search refinement

In addition to the existing ways to refine a search, adding a section for subject headings would be useful to quickly choose or eliminate items that are and are not relevant to the goal of the search.
Sara Carman over 1 year ago in User Interface 1 Already exists

Allow Highlighting in EBSCO eBooks

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Kara Kroes Li over 2 years ago in User Interface 1 Future consideration

Show the amount for tiered pricing

In GOBI when an ebook esupplier uses tiered pricing, rather than displaying the amount, there is a "Tiered" link in its place. Please show the amount; there could be a different way to indicate that the amount displayed comes from a tiered pricing...
Julie Gaida over 1 year ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Customer Service email automatically populated.

Since new protocols have been established for contacting customer service, have the customer service email automatically populated in the contact field.
Guest over 1 year ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Search by POL

I would like to be able to search for a selection after the order is in by the POL number assigned.
Sharon Whittle about 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow / User Interface 1 Already exists