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Bring back ECM search profiles

The ECM search profiles made is easier for us to find and purchase ebooks. We do not use GOBI, and the new "book ordering platform" is of no interest. Removing the search profiles will reduce our usage of the platform. I can't imagine why you woul...
Guest 10 months ago in Evidence-Based Acquisition 1 Will not implement

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

EDI credit memos and technical invoices

Can credit memos be EDI'd? And technical invoices?
Sharon Whittle almost 2 years ago in Invoicing 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 almost 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow / User Interface 1 Already exists

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 almost 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 almost 2 years 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 almost 2 years 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 almost 3 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Please add Jewish Studies to your Diversity, Equity & Inclusion by Subject lists.

Given the long, global, and uninterrupted history of anti-Jewish racism, not to mention today's rise in antisemitism world-wide, but especially in the United States, it's strange that you don't have a Jewish studieslist.
Guest about 2 years ago in Content 2 Already exists