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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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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 almost 2 years 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 almost 2 years 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 over 1 year ago in APIs and Integration 0 Future consideration

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 over 1 year ago in Profiling and Approval Services 0 Future consideration

Approval sending eBooks and print titles

When titles are not matching parameters, they land on the "approval bookshelf". The title could be sent directly in print or an alert could be sent out. Both isn't possible as yet.
Guest about 2 years ago in Profiling and Approval Services 0 Future consideration

single-click request of multi-user ebooks for backlist titles not available that way

Often we want to be able to buy a license to a multi-user ebook for an older backlist title, perhaps a classic, perhaps just something that somebody wants to use in a course. I'd like to have an option to "request multi-user ebook license" where I...
David Wuolu about 2 years ago in APIs and Integration / eBook Management 0 Future consideration

Add publisher limiter to the left side bar in search results from the basic search.

I would like to be able to limit large result sets to publisher.
Mary Ann Jones about 2 years ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

EDI credit memos and technical invoices

Can credit memos be EDI'd? And technical invoices?
Sharon Whittle over 1 year ago in Invoicing 0 Future consideration

Allow customization of userdefinedfields when Gobi selects ebook in HLM

Gobi now sends over to EBSCO eadmin HLM the info to "select" the book when purchased. However, the info sent over does not include the particular license model (eg 1U, UU, etc.). We would like to be able to customize this process so that the licen...
Guest over 1 year ago in eBook Management 0 Future consideration

More format choices and better file extensions for Gobi open order status reports

Gobi sends us open order status reports with an attachment that ends ".dat". That has no meaning at all to anyone's desktop software and just causes problems. Further, the most common format usable for this kind of data is NOT offered as an option...
Guest over 1 year ago in Reporting and Analysis 0 Future consideration