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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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Immediate access to E-book URL

I would like to have immediate access to proxied e-book url to support rapid discovery of e-books purchased through GOBI.
Victoria Suslak almost 3 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 Future consideration

Open Order Status Reports -- allow recipient designation by subaccount

We have around 25 subaccounts, but one of them is completely handled by an administratively separate library on campus which orders many fewer orders than our main library. It would be helpful if open orders could be split out by subaccount and al...
Guest 10 months ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls 0 Future consideration

Subfolders

It would be beneficial to be able to organize folders into subfolders. For example, I keep lists until all items arrive, but they clutter my lists when adding new items. Being able to sort lists or hide some that have already been submitted would ...
Guest over 1 year ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Self-service for order changes

I would like to be able to make changes to placed orders without having to call customer service rep
Victoria Suslak almost 3 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 Future consideration

GOBI DDA title removal

For anyone that has DDA set up in GOBI, it is easy enough to request to have a title manually added to a DDA collection. However, there is currently no way to manually remove it. It appears you have to contact support to have this done. Please con...
Laura Vogler 2 months ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition 0 Future consideration

Allow ebook only limiter to notifications for "New editions of my library's titles"

The new "new editions of my library's titles" notification is useful, but would be more useful for those of us purchasing primarily ebooks to be able to liimit to ebooks only. Currently when you select the "new..." option, the control over ebook s...
Guest over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Get notification when ebook becomes available when I select a print book of interest

When a publisher releases a new book print only, and I'm only interested in purchasing it as ebook, I want to set some kind of notification on individual titles I am interested in, so that when Gobi gets the ebook, I get emailed telling me it's no...
Guest about 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow 3 Future consideration

Editing DDA titles

Enable ISBN searching in Active DDAs. This would facilitate streamlined weeding of the DDA collection. Currently, when I am removing a title I need to sort through the list. When doing an ISBN search (top search bar), I don't see an intuitive way ...
Guest 3 months ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition 1

Print on Demand Status Indication

I ordered a book that has a status of in stock and turns out it is a print on demand item and will take extra time to get it. I don't see anything in the record that indicates print on demand. It would be nice to know that before hand. Instead of ...
Guest over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add DEI focused tags

Use additional DEI focused tags in GOBI profiling to tailor approval plans to bring in specific DEI content
Jon Elwell over 2 years ago in Content / Profiling and Approval Services 1 Future consideration