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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 4 months ago in User Interface 2 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 almost 2 years 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 almost 2 years ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition 0 Future consideration

More parameters for managing Notifications (f.e.: publication year, series title, more fields)

I would like to filter titles for Notifications based on all the fields that GOBI shows for titles. For example: I always want to include certain series (no matter the subject) so it would be nice to be able to specify this in the Notification Man...
Daan Keij about 2 years ago in Profiling and Approval Services 2 Future consideration

Ability to filter, sort, and/or search for titles with reviews.

We base many selection decisions on reviews and it would be helpful to filter searches/lists to include only titles with reviews. (Alternately, sorting reviewed titles to the top of the list would help.) Being able to add "has reviews" as an advan...
Courtney Roman about 2 years ago in Selection Workflow / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Allow current List Price default view to change to my country's currency

I'm from Canada but all the prices display for me in USD by default. I'd like this to change, either automatically by GOBI recognizing my country based on my profile, or by me selecting it in my preferences. This would be a huge time-saver.
PG over 2 years ago in Selection Workflow / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Rethink presentation of information

ALL CAPS is hard to read on a screen. The variety of typefaces, capitalizations, and colors creates visual clutter. The three views of results show respectively too little, too much, and way too much information for most of my selection decisions....
Guest over 2 years ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Remove perpetual purchases from DDA pool automatically

If we purchase an ebook perpetually, we would like it removed from our DDA pool to prevent paying for the same item twice. Currently we do this manually. It would be great if GOBI could identify and remove these automatically
Guest over 2 years ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition 0 Future consideration

Total cost of items ordered per session

It would be good to have a total of the cost of books ordered per ordering session. This would be useful to Selectors who often have broad weekly/monthly expenditure guidelines.
Guest over 2 years ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls / Reporting and Analysis / Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

GobiAPI Integration with OCLC WMS

Real-time order API supporting transfer of bibliographic and order data between GOBI and OCLC WMS.
Caroline Zappasodi over 2 years ago in APIs and Integration 0 Future consideration