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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

Gobi: tag books written by Nobel prize winning authors in all fields, not just literature

I would like to make sure we own every book written by Nobel prize winners in all fields. Unfortunately, outside of the Literature Prize, Gobi doesn't reliably tag (with Approval notes) books that aren't necessarily themselves direct award winners...
Guest over 1 year ago in Profiling and Approval Services 2 Future consideration

Analytic recommendations based on purchasing

Gobi recommends automated workflows based on firm ordering or recommends titles to add to DDA based on triggers.
Jeremy Garskoff over 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Sort by "Added to list" date

In my lists, I wish I could sort by the date it was added.
Guest about 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 about 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

Expand Featured and Subject Collections

We do not have dedicated collections development or cataloging librarians. We ask our instruction and reference teams to all participate in collections. As such, we lean on the curated lists provided by EBSCO librarians. I especially like that som...
Mary Snyder almost 2 years ago in Content 0 Future consideration