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Fund Code - Selector mapping

I would like the system be able to detect Who is responsible for selecting titles for which fund code to avoid accidental selecting "wrong" fund code for a title.
Guest over 1 year ago in Selection Workflow 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 almost 3 years ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition 0 Future consideration

Discounts shown in price before purchase

s4971387 St Marys University, Twickenham mentioned they would like to see any discounts reflected in the Price on GOBI. This relates to libraries in a consortium such as SUPC
Krista Eidal 11 months ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Forecast of Standing Orders

s8461314 University of Northumbria at Newcastle mentioned that ProQuest has monthly forecast of Standing Orders and want to know if this is a future development for GOBI/Mosaic
Krista Eidal 11 months ago in Reporting and Analysis 1 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 over 1 year ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition 1 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 about 3 years ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls / Reporting and Analysis / Selection Workflow 0 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 almost 2 years ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls 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 3 years ago in APIs and Integration 0 Future consideration

Toggle between alternate editions

Allow me to add an item to a folder one time and select or change the edition with one click. (Currently to swap paperback for hardcover or eBook I have to click away from my list to alternate editions, add the edition to my folder, then delete th...
Guest about 3 years ago in User Interface 1 Future consideration

Search library activity by cancellation date

Each week we search our cancelled orders under "library activity" to update our records and reorder. However, we can only search cancelled orders by an order date range, then manually check the cancellation date of each title. The ability to searc...
Guest about 3 years ago in Acquisition Workflow / Reporting and Analysis 0 Future consideration