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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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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

Open Access Titles

It would be very helpful, if open access titles were identified on the notifications.
Guest about 2 years ago in eBook Management / 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

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 over 1 year ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Set default sort/filter

It might be useful to enable users to set up a default sort/filter for their search results on the new ordering platform so they don't have to apply the same filters every time as we do in GOBI. If they are often searching with the same parameters...
Guest 6 months ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Make eTextbooks available via GOBI

Add eTextbook platforms to GOBI
Jon Elwell over 2 years ago in Content 0 Future consideration

More non-english language publishers on the platform

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Jenn Pothier over 2 years ago in Content 0 Future consideration

Calculate Est. Net total for selected items

In the Gobi platform, being able to see the net and list price totals of selected items would cut down on extra work to make sure funds are not over spent.
Guest about 2 years ago in Selection Workflow / User Interface 0 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 about 1 year 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 about 1 year ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition 0 Future consideration