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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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search titles within a folder in My Folders

Can we search just the titles in a folder? That would be handy. Did I already add this to my folder or not?
Guest about 1 year ago in 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 about 2 years ago in Content / Profiling and Approval Services 1 Future consideration

Share GOBI order templates

Allow sharing of GOBI order templates with other GOBI users in our library. Currently, each GOBI user must create their own order templates. This is labor intensive and prone to errors. Our library has multiple subaccounts and numerous required fi...
Carmel Thompson over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Open Access Titles

It would be very helpful, if open access titles were identified on the notifications.
Guest over 1 year ago in eBook Management / Profiling and Approval Services 1 Future consideration

Notifications for "currently unavailable" titles

When a title is currently "unavailable in your country" it would be wonderful to be able to create an alert if the title/format does become available to order.
Guest 4 months ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls 0 Future consideration

eBook Manager: more options to refine search, and export result lists

We have the following suggestions for improvement of the eBook Manager interface: An option to refine search by titles that have "Copies reserved for online use". Currently, it's possible to refine search by "Title-level download settings". We wou...
Heidi Jahnsen 7 months ago in eBook Management 3 Future consideration

Customized reporting - titles purchased by category

I would like to be able to run expenditure reports by period as well as by Publisher and Subject to have a better sense of which titles we are purchasing and how we are spending our money.
Victoria Suslak over 2 years ago in Reporting and Analysis 1 Future consideration

Gobi Manage Folders sort - either preserve choice within setting or allow us to set default

Within a single Gobi login session, when I sort the Manage Library Folders list, I have to keep re-sorting it every time I follow one of the folders to do some ordering, and then come back to pull the contents of the next folder. And the default s...
Guest 3 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add publication year limitation for Notifications

When setting up Notifications, especially for "All Titles" users receive titles with older pub years and there is no way to limit by pub year. Adding a pub year limitation to Notifications would keep older titles out.
Guest 11 months ago in Profiling and Approval Services / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Clearer DDA availability status

Library DDA general availability is often confused with local library's DDA program. Better clarification needed as to what the "Library DDA: yes" status means.
Guest 11 months ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition 0 Future consideration