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

EDI credit memos and technical invoices

Can credit memos be EDI'd? And technical invoices?
Sharon Whittle about 2 years 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 about 2 years 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 about 2 years ago in Reporting and Analysis 0 Future consideration

Sort by "Added to list" date

In my lists, I wish I could sort by the date it was added.
Guest over 2 years ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

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...
Guest over 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

"Interdisciplinary Topics" as Approval parameter

We would like to use "YBP Interdisciplinary Topics" as parameters setting up approvals. To be able to do so, this parameter would need to be applied consistently for all titles.
Guest over 2 years ago in Profiling and Approval Services 0 Future consideration

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...
Morag Stewart over 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration