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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 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

Give us an email heads up of e-titles to be removed by publisher before they are removed

ProQuest used to do this. Maybe it is contractually disallowed, but if not libraries may want to add or trigger titles before they go away permanently on the EBSCO platform.
Guest almost 2 years ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition 0 Future consideration

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

I want to be able to delete our outdated eBooks from "eBooks on EBSCOhost" so I can delete ebooks in OCLC.

We need to be able to delete books from the "eBooks on EBSCOhost" database when we get newer editions of medical books, books with multiple editions, etc. Accred. agencies don't like students to access old, outdated materials.
Jo Shimmin almost 1 year ago in eBook Management 1 Already exists

Share new book covers with potential users

Sometimes librarians like to delegate selection of materials to discipline experts. It is possible to export a list and share. Would it be possible to create a more "catalog" style browse with covers where users could be invited to "select"? Libra...
Guest over 1 year ago in Selection Workflow 1 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

Gobi needs to send edition #s to EDS for the "Gobi Ebook" database

Gobi now maintains its own entire "database" called Gobi Ebooks, in EDS. But it doesn't include the edition #s. Especially in STEM/Med fields, there are lots of editions and patrons often ask for a book by its edition #, not its pub year (along wi...
Guest about 1 year ago in APIs and Integration 0 Future consideration

Need an "Exclude Fiction" filter

There are a lot of Religious publishers who publish both fiction and non-fiction. Most of the time we are only interested purchasing non-fiction titles. It would be much easier to find titles to purchase if fiction could be filtered out.
Guest 7 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 Already exists

Swap edition on ebook approval bookshelf

I often come across titles on the ebook approval bookshelf where I'd like to buy an alternate edition on approval funds. For example, sometimes the edition on the approval bookshelf is unavailable in Canada, but an alt edition ebook is available. ...
Guest about 1 year ago in Profiling and Approval Services 0 Future consideration