EBSCO Ideas Portal

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    Invoices sorted in series title order rather than mono title

    Currently titles are listed on the standing order invoices in mono title order. As we enter the invoice against the series title record, it would be useful to have the invoice charges in series title order so that we can view all of the charges to...
    Guest 2 months ago in Invoicing 0 Future consideration

    Automated Holdings Loading

    I would like a more automated process for loading my library's holdings to GOBI so that I do not have to check my local catalog before buying to prevent duplication.
    Caroline Zappasodi over 4 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 4 Planned

    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 almost 2 years ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition 0 Future consideration

    Preferred sort order

    The default sort order of the results is 'Relevance'. I would like to be able to change that into Pub Year > Descending (to see the newest titles first) and keep that sort order (at least) for the next searches in the same session.
    Judith Gulpers almost 4 years ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

    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 over 4 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Make EBSCO Enhancement Requests visible publicly on this site or another similar one

    See ER 3517721: Create a portal to add new ER's and vote for the existing ones     "The Gobi division of EBSCO has this excellent Ideas Portal - https://ebscobooks.ideas.aha.io/ My request is that EBSCO Information Services also uses this portal ...
    Guest over 1 year ago in User Interface 4 Future consideration

    Ebook PDF page allowance information in Gobi

    Occasionally there are ebooks from EBSCO or ProQuest that do not allow users to download any pages. It would be helpful to have this information somewhere on the Gobi ordering screen.
    Guest over 2 years ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow the customer to specify the url(s) used for API access to Alma

    We make extensive​ use of Alma’s APIs to run our locally developed discovery tools. Because we make so much use of Alma APIs, we are frequently challenged by the limits Ex Libris imposes on API requests per second, which can lead to the services w...
    Guest 5 months ago in APIs and Integration 0 Future consideration

    Gobi needs search/filter option to include/exclude library owns already

    Add an option to include or exclude "library owns/library owns alt ed" in advanced search, or alternatively add it as a post-search Filter. Or another alternative would be to include that information when Saving a batch of marked records with "ful...
    Guest over 3 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

    View E-book licensing within GOBI for publisher/aggregator platforms

    I would like to be able to see platform licensing (any restrictions on access and usage) within GOBI when I am selecting or purchasing an ebook.
    Victoria Suslak over 4 years ago in Selection Workflow 1 Future consideration